It is quite high ground up there, and the front line trench slopes down to the right; over the parados the open ground is much lower, dotted with trees; it looks quite quaint when a flare goes up.
These trenches are very pretty--the parapet and parados covered with grass and flowers.
The work was: repair of parapet and parados knocked in by recent shelling.
We drew tools at Potijze dump, proceeded up Strand, which has been badly knocked about by shells, and repaired the parapet and parados of the front line to left and right of Strand.
I stood on the parados of Liverpool Trench and watched with amazement.
Looking over theparados I could see the country in rear, dim in the hazy night.
At every turn where the parados opened to the rear they stared you in the face, the damp, clammy, black mounds of clay with white crosses over them.
Already the parados was lined with newly-made firing positions, that gave the sentry view of the German trench some forty or fifty yards in front.
For three days we stayed in the trenches, narrow, suffocating and damp places, where parados and parapet almost touched and where it was (p.
Goliath dragged his massive weight over the parados and busied himself pulling flowers.
The trenches were dug out of the chalk, the world in which we lived was a world of white and green, white parapet and parados with a (p.
It was dropping to earth behind the parados and I had a distinct view of the missile before ducking to avoid the splinters flung out by the explosion.
Very low shots, ricocheting off the top of the parados in his rear, whined and hummed in erratic flight.
So he clambered out of the trench and the shocks of that blind fight and moved along the paradosuntil he came into close contact with, and full view of, the enemy.
It's all right, sir," exclaimed the sergeant, who had clambered over the parados and run to the extended group of officers.
Evidently it was the rearmost of an intricate system of field-fortifications, for Malcolm was on the parados side while beyond, merging into smoke and haze, were other ramifications of the maze of trenches, all silent and deserted.
Malcolm approached a knot of Diggers gathered in a shellhole in what was formerly the parados of the trench.
Now he scarcely heeded the messenger of death and destruction, although showers of dust and calcined wood flew over the parados amongst the ration party.
Work was therefore concentrated on building up the front line to give cover from view, and, as far as labour would permit, on the construction of a parados to it.
Two machine-guns, however, in the neighbourhood of Sole Post held up the enemy here for a considerable time, one gun ultimately having to be mounted on the parados and engage the enemy to its left rear.
There was a dummy parados to this trench made of boards, behind which dug-outs were found.
Corporal Puzzeau understood also, and his eyes danced as Dennis bounded along the top of the parados towards the retreating company.
Corporal Puzzeau, and the men who had recoiled, took up the shout and scaled the wall of the parados again.
From the parados a grass bank sloped down to a broad gravel walk, and from this another steep bank dropped some 20 feet into the inner court.
Just inside the parados there were at regular intervals heavily built traverses, and between the traverses glass ventilators poked up from the rooms and passages which lay under the southern ramparts.
This drain was the trench, with a fire-bay that was a miniature lagoon, the fire-step covered with slush, the parapet and parados falling in as if they were ditches built of wet sand.
The Wheatshires were occupying the captured section of the trench, the men toiling strenuously to convert the parados into a parapet.
Standing on the parados was a captain of the Wheatshires.
There was an avalanche of shell fragments, but none flew into the trench, the parados preventing.
Thus the parados prevents a back-fire of the bullets carried in the shrapnel shell, which otherwise might strike the trench's defenders.
Both must be made strong, the parapet for reasons already given, and the paradosin order to protect the men from the force of shells that fall just behind the trenches.
Alternate frosts and thaws, rain and snow, soon filled our trenches with mud and slush, into which parapets and parados either crumbled gradually or collapsed wholesale.
In places there was a parados similarly constructed, but over long stretches the men in the front line simply stood behind the wall, with no protection against the back-burst of shells.
We consoled ourselves with a clean stretch of turf at the back of some old trenches, against the parados of which we afterwards constructed shacks and stores, and fortunately well away from the village.
These were all very deep and were strengthened at the entrance from the trench with heavily reinforced concrete and in most cases there was a concrete wall also on the parados side of the trench opposite the entrance.
I thought you would be interested to hear,' said he, 'that the very minute you left me this morning a rum-jar burst on the parados just behind me.
The fragments must be falling somewhere in the neighbourhood; and a more alarming kind of shell has just burst on the high ground between our parados and the support line.
Major Sasse (1st Battalion) won distinction by charging at the head of a small body of men down a Turkish sap, and then directing a bomb attack from the parados of the captured trenches.
In three lines of trenches, their bayonets fixed, standing one above the other to get better shooting, resting on steps or sitting on the parados of the trenches, the Turks waited the coming of the Light Horsemen.
If possible this should be done with the parados wall, so as to make it as inconspicuous as possible from the front.
By coloring the parapet and paradosto match the ground.
It is well to have an exit behind the parados leading to a surprise position for a machine gun and bombers.
This necessitates the addition of a parados to the fire trench to protect against the back blast of high explosives.
The weather still continued fine, and our time was spent in building new traverses, and rivetting and sandbagging theparados and firesteps.
Now, by the queer twisty feeling that went down my spine when my eyes first lighted on that grim black line of parados just over my shoulder, I guessed how my men might be feeling.
He'd seen that towering parados against the sky, and heard that sentry's cough and the jamming home of his rifle bolt.
Listening now, the Boche guns having ceased fire, our sentries could plainly hear groaning and moaning opposite, and see the lights reflected on the Boche parados moving to and fro as their stretcher-bearers went about their work.
Its parapet and paradostower white, clean, and unbroken a foot or so over your head.
Sometimes in the flare of a shell-burst a man's body would be silhouetted against the parados of the trench and it appeared like a huge monster.
Crossing No Man's Land without clicking any casualties, we came to the German trench and mounted our guns on the parados of same.
Some clambered over the parados and some even over the parapet preferring the dangers of No Man's Land to this other soul-searing menace.
Hugging the parados, messengers carried the word in both directions and presently periscopes were leveled above the parados and keen eyes were searching out the traitor.
Some filled sandbags with mud, others rebuilt the shattered parados and stopped the gaps in the parapet.
These parados did much to avert casualties caused from bits of bursting high-explosive shells.
Mr. Parados was asking questions and little Elfrida was trying to answer them, and Dickie understood that the Gunpowder Plot had not happened yet, and that Elfrida had given the whole show away.
And the days went on, and lessons with Mr. Parados were a sort of Inquisition torture to Dickie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parados" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
