I may not know all the ins and outs of court procedure, but I'm going to see justice done, and I'm going to see that you keep your place.
If one may believe the look outs of the destroyers the whole harbour crawled with periscopes, but they were really bully beef cans and other rubbish chucked over from the warships.
Numerous dug-outs are in the sloping sides of the road.
In the sloping land, at the side of the road, small dug-outs can still be seen.
Numerous deep dug-outs were made in the slopes on the left.
The Outs get the Gegg, which is anything deposited, as a key, a penknife, &c.
The Outs are those who go out from the den or goal, where those called the Ins remain for a time.
One of the Ins who is touched by one of the Outs is said to be taken, and henceforth loses his right to hold the Gegg.
If he who holds the Gegg gets in the den, the Outs are winners, and have the privilege of getting out again.
The business of the Ins is, after the signal is given, to lay hold of the Outs before they can reach the den.
Men sleeping in dug-outs may be seriously affected unless they are roused.
Rouse all men in trenches, dug-outs and mine shafts, warn officers and artillery observation posts and all employed men.
This was the constant occupation, both in the deep dug-outs and in the concrete faced shelters in the main support line, and not for the first time we blessed the Germans for the good solid workmanship of these dug-outs.
Their banks were honeycombed with crude dug-outs (mere scrapings in the ground with a waterproof sheet or blanket for covering) in which men sought protection from shell-fire and relief from the pitiless sun.
It rained steadily, in a way that few of us had ever experienced before, for several hours, and dug-outs soon filled up with water.
There was more of Vimy left and under collapsed houses were deep dug-outs of German origin.
The people that annoyed us most of all, however, were the trench mortar companies, who lived in comparative comfort in substantial dug-outs behind the front line.
We could only sit in our dug-outs and wonder what was happening.
The old German dug-outs in other parts excited our interest, rows of beds in tiers of wooden frames and rabbit wire reminded one of a lodging-house, but the latter type of residence is probably fresher.
We had not even the luxury of roofed dug-outs in many places and had to do the best we could to shelter ourselves by means of our waterproof sheets.
Winding up a steepish rise through a region which seemed crowded with dug-outs and piles of stores, we gained the crest where we had been urged to extend.
Here were one or two dug-outs in which the party in charge of the Dump slumbered peacefully.
I'm studyin' the ins and the outs of this place, so as to know what I am about, afore I take hold; for I feel kinder skittish about my men.
We were old estancieros, however, and it gave us unalloyed delight to show him round our place and put him up to all the outs and ins of a settler's life.
I have no space to detail all the outs and ins of our arguments; suffice it to say they were successful, and preparations for our emigration were soon commenced.
He saw all the ins and outs of his predicament at a glance.
By questioning, by listening when all the parties talked freely, I finally understood all the ins and outs of the thrilling drama in real life.
Dug-outs and French mine entrances on the slope of Eparges Spur.
About 3 kilometres past Varennes, a road leads right to some German dug-outs said to be those of the Crown Prince.
To repair the dug-outs pit-props were used, but they often had to be carried great distances up communication trenches, and were very difficult to handle.
Leaving our dug-outs I found a gunner smoking fags under the fish-net camouflage at Number One gun.
The New Landlord During an advance on the Somme in 1916 my company was rushed up to the captured trenches to search the dug-outs and to bring in the prisoners.
I guess it would have been one of the biggest and finest wipe-outs in history.
After a couple of days we were moved back from the coast to a primitive village where the people and animals alike lived in dug-outs in the rocks.
It was a grievous time for the gunners; dug-outs were impossible, as water was met only eighteen inches below the surface, and pill-boxes were few and far between.
The batteries had not been worried much, and for their own part had not done more than to direct bursts of fire upon enemy dug-outs and machine guns which were annoying the infantry.
I dunnot stomach the notion of having favour curried for me, by one as doesn't know the ins and outs of the quarrel.
From the dug-outs came unmistakable sounds of slumber.
Famous stone quarries of Soissons, providing ready-made dug-outs as shelter from shells!
The power of chaos that they seem to possess when the firing-trench and the dug- outs and all the human warrens which protect the defenders are beaten as flour is kneaded!
The dust from sandbags and dug-outs merged into an immense cloud of ugly, black smoke.
Their expert knowledge of all the ins and outs of the business had been fought into them for over a year.
They came out of their little houses and dug-outs to gather around the brazier; and for every remark I made I received a fusillade in reply.
Needlewomen were given work cutting up the worn-outs of grown-ups and making them over into astonishingly good suits or dresses for youngsters.
After a bombardment, dig out the filled trenches and renew the smashed dug-outs to be ready for another go!
We didn't hear the whole ins and outs of the story at once, but we made the girls tell it us over afterwards.
You see it was a good thing for the girls that I'd been there before, and knew all the ins and outs of the place, wasn't it?
We came upon them without being prepared by any signs of human life, for the dug-outs were excavated from the sloping banks of the creeks.
There were no trees; only the arid plain surrounded it, and the sirocco winds drove the sands of that desolate desert into the dug-outs that served for the habitation of officers and men.
Harry sent a midshipman forward to see that the look-outs had their eyes open.
Look-outs were stationed aloft to catch the first glimpse of any sail which might be near, though their hulls and lower rigging would be hidden by the mist.
Illustration] X DUG-OUTS A small hamlet of sand-bagged dug-outs a little behind the front line, seen during a passing lift of the clouds at the end of a wet day.
A faint red glow began to light up the low clouds over the Belgian frontier, and the bridge look-outs whispered together as they watched it brighten.
On bridges and at gun-stations look-outs stared out around them at the night, and there was no need for the officers to be anxious as to whether their men kept good watch or slept.
He was "the old soldier," and knew all the ins and outs of army life.
When we moved to the Salt Lake dug-outs he came with us, and here he had a dug-out of his own.
Wooden shanties sprang up where dug-outs had been a day or so before.
I had to go up to Chocolate Hill about some sand-bags for our hospital dug-outs next day, and on the way up I noticed a human pelvis and a chunk of charred human vertebrae under a scorched and charcoaled thorn-bush.
We came out of the trench, and as there were no huts or dug-outs ready for us, we had to stand out in the rain for over an hour when we arrived at our destination.
Gradually we drew near to the little wood just beside Hill 60, and were told to occupy any dug-outs there until further orders.
The first two or three days were wet, so our opportunities for sleep were few, especially as at our part of the trench there were no dug-outs and our sleep had to be obtained in the open air.
We had been in these dug-outs for about half an hour when we were told to fall in and each man to carry two boxes of bombs.
For the greater part of the day we stood to in dug-outs on the side of the railway embankment, but at dusk we lined up and received instructions as to the work we had to do that night and the following day.
One of the dug-outs which we destroyed caught fire.
The front line Companies Headquarters were in machine gun nest dug-outs in front of our wire.
No dead were found in the trenches, but all dug-outs were still occupied by the enemy.
The eminent scientist, who knew all the ins and outs of that game, did not spoil poor Sandy's dream by any intrusion of cold and hard facts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
