It is a small square chamber, where the bells are hung, filled with the interlacement of enormous beams, and pierced to north and south by open windows, from whose parapets I saw the village and the valley spread beneath.
Parapets of sandbags and wire entanglements were sadly needed all along the line, and, at that, sandbag parapets were all too easily demolished by Hun shell-fire, which made short work of them.
You will notice," said the Kemmel man, "my men are planting daffodils on the parapets to hide 'em.
A trench line proper existed, but consisted, from the nature of the terrain, of trench-works and parapets of sandbags, all above ground.
New trenches had to be dug, the old parapets strengthened, the trenches drained, and all the while certain mining work must be pushed on at a rapid rate.
In some parts of the line the parapets of sandbags had become so thin that a Mauser bullet could plough through them easily.
The Germans brought up some field guns and hammered away at our parapets at close range.
But as the weeks passed, the parapetsgrew higher, the ditches deeper, and the pits more numerous, until the whole place became a redoubt.
Those nearest to the enemy had been provided with parapets and barbed wire entanglements, dug down to a depth of I metre 70 cm.
Through the loopholes in our parapetsone could see the wide stretch of beetroots on the edge of which we were fighting, our backs to Dixmude.
Hearing a fight break out on our right, I called to the Engineers who were working on the parapets to jump down, as the machine gun which was near us might be turned on them.
But now that we are making the dry parapets I advocated, things are much better in every way, and everyone is more cheery.
We are too busy working at our parapets now to go for them, but when they are finished I propose to wake them up well.
Parapets of undulating outline, and others suggestive of the fleur-de-lys, with indications of fruit and flower enrichment.
Their parapets are dimmer, perhaps, but from them still they lean and laugh.
Further and further the crystal parapets were retreating.
The walls are thick, and the embattled parapets present a range of towers, each of which are firmly guarded.
On the parapets guns already mounted were established in hollows dug out for the purpose.
But they are now nearly all to be found on the parapets of the left bank.
An attempt by companies of the 15th and 16th Battalions failed to gain the Turkish parapets in the face of a terrible fire.
They lay on the parapets and their blackened hands hung down over our path.
A few managed to jump across the parapetsand down into the trenches.
But the sentries on the parapets suddenly began to detect, even in the blackness of the night preceding dawn, crawling figures.
After three days the men dug themselves out, and appeared before their astonished and delighted friends over the parapets of our trenches.
Stretcher-bearers rescued men where they could from just above the parapets, and dragged them down into the trenches, while over the same parapets went other men, doomed like their magnificent comrades.
The ground had been broken through, but no parapets had been erected on the surface, as the enemy did not know exactly the direction of this forward firing-line.
While the men were tearing down the Turkish parapets to form this barricade a veritable inferno raged round them as the bombs exploded.
Sandbag parapets had been hastily erected, and on either side of these the troops stood and bombed one another.
Our telescope was withdrawn just in time, and the iron flap dropped over the loophole as bullets splashed against it and the sandbag parapets above.
The Turk was always a good scout, and would get right under the parapets of our trenches almost undetected.
Missing parapetsand firing steps were improvised from dry stone.
Some of the parapets had to be rebuilt for modernization.
The men swarmed over the parapets and raced across the fields, carrying their heavy equipment and following their officers over the shell-scarred, churned-up earth.
Men were hoisted to the parapets and lay flat awaiting a signal, the blowing of a whistle.
Our men are sitting on the parapets of their trenches, singing.
In bad weather especially, when the rain never ceases and the floods spread, our men daily report parapets giving way and duckboards disappearing under the water or mud.
In this manner parapets of a steadily increasing solidity slowly formed a continuous front which, though still of doubtful strength, sufficed to protect the occupied zone against surprise attacks.
What statistician could calculate the number of the hundreds of thousands of stakes that have been driven and the thousands of miles of wire arranged in front of the parapets by our heroic workers?
There was a solid stone bridge over it, with three arches, rising picturesquely in the centre, with stone parapets on the sides, the parapets spreading at both ends of the structure.
Behind the parapets or in fort gunrooms were 32- and 42-pounder iron seacoast guns (fig.
Ruiz was not deceived about what would happen if hostile batteries were able to get closer; in such case, he thought, the enemy "will no doubt succeed in destroying the parapets and dismounting the guns.
From its machicolated parapets and mounted battlements Barons, Counts, and even Kings had been defied, yet never had its spacious halls resounded to the footstep of the invader.
What may be noted respecting the parapets of this era?
The prospect of it was magnificent and beautiful; for, besides the disposition of the walls, which formed a kind of amphitheatre, the different colours wherewith the several parapets were painted formed a delightful variety.
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