The patrol who sighted the Thunder Bird at that height, with no motor hum to call his attention upward, must have sharp eyes and a habit of sky-gazing.
I saw him going down the flat and sent him on to tell the patrol a lot they already knew.
Perhaps, since I want to go across this evening as late as you can make a safe landing over there, I ought to tell you that a border patrol saw us yesterday, coming back, and wondered a little at a government plane getting over the line.
Finally, the target area would provide a site for a long-range radar installation and an advanced naval base for PT (patrol torpedo) boats.
A combat patrol from the 21st Marines moved to drive the Japanese off the knob.
Slipping stealthily by them, the patrol got back to Voza.
Another patrol waited until the occupants of a bivouac lined up for chow before cutting them down with mortars in a pandemonium of pots, pans, and tea kettles.
The following morning, Krulak sent a patrol near the barge basin to the Vagara River for security and then to wave in his small landing craft bringing up his troops to attack.
A mounted patrol scouring the country fell in with a farm-house where three Dutchmen, in a thick clump of bushes, were defending themselves against three hundred Kafirs.
On emerging from the other end of the pass, they almost ran into a small patrol of Cape Mounted Rifles, who, attracted by the shots and cries in the pass, were galloping to the rescue.
We saw the small patrol boats darting about in all directions and we felt with a secret thrill that we had got into that part of the world which was at war.
I made my promise and started with the patrol officer and his runner.
While I was talking to one of the men, the patrol officer, unknown to me, allowed the spy to go off on his wheel, and to my astonishment when I turned I saw him going off down the road as hard as he could.
To do outpost duty in a place like that must have been more interesting than pleasant, for at all times the sentries had to keep straining their eyes in the darkness to see if a patrol of the enemy was coming to surprise them.
The Highlander put the officer between us and, followed by the four patrol men, we went off down a lonely road.
Saying this, he called his patrol about him and marched back again.
They had been lying out on patrol duty in the mud and rain in front of our trench for two hours.
And I thought too of the wonderful patrol kept up on the dark seas, by heroic and suffering men who guarded the life and liberty of Britain.
They were men of the patrol commanded by the young Highlander on the other side of our prisoner.
I told them who I was and how I had been bidden by the patrol officer to seek refuge with them.
I was taking him off to our Headquarters, where strange officers were often brought for purposes of identification, when a young Highland Captain of diminutive stature, but unbounded dignity, appeared on the scene with four patrol men.
A patrolof hussars galloped here from Trois Fontaines and ordered them across the Dutch frontier.
I invited them to come here, but a patrolfrom Trois Fontaines galloped up and ordered them to go through Luxembourg--across the Dutch frontier.
He shrugged his massive shoulders: "What is a Prussian patrol to a head forester?
Young Hendricks, who was my junior officer on the Ertak, back in those early days of the Special Patrol Service, about which I have written so much, was one of these.
Routine patrol was better than being earth-fast on this barren and uninteresting ball of mud.
But she even rode off in the patrolwagon with the rest of the employes unmoved.
With the post-office inspector we climbed into a patrol wagon with a detail of police who were to make a general round-up of the places on Forty-second Street.
On the night of March 15-16 a German patrol planted a German flag in front of the Tyneside Irish, half-way across "No Man's Land.
Sergeant Samuel Kelly, Belfast, volunteered to take a patrol from the Crucifix line to ascertain how things were going on our right.
There's one of their patrol machines with a searchlight!
There was a certain amount of concern at the aerodrome in connection with the missing pilot, who was very popular, and I was glad to hear that we were to be accompanied by a patrol of triplanes.
My pilot had no machine in action, so, though he was not wanted, I was allocated to a machine on the firstpatrol that took place.
Would a German air patrol await us--would a fierce impassable barrage bring about our downfall?
When we disembarked, however, we found that several Handley-Pages were coming back from a daylight patrol off the coast to Zeebrugge and back.
I shall be in command of a patrol that is going out toward Sacrificios for a look at the gringos.
There isn't a patrol in sight, and the Paez place is within a few squares from this.
The patrol party had now performed its duty, and it marched back again, but in that morning adventure Ned had discovered that he was really free to come and go.
Later she had been warned from this road by word that a strong British patrol had come down the west bank of the Pangani, effected a crossing south of her, and was even then marching on the railway at Tonda.
It was dark when the two approached the British right, after a slight delay farther back because of a German patrol it had been necessary to elude.
Momentarily he was expecting a patrol or a relief to appear and discover that the sentinel was missing, when he knew an immediate and thorough search would be made.
The great distances they have to traverse necessitates the use of horses; here, accordingly, we find the mounted police, the successors of the old horse-patrol established in 1805.
Not long since the night-police were condemned to patrol the streets for nine hours, without sitting down, or even leaning their weary limbs against any support.
South to fool any nosey cops & then straight West so as to be out of range of the patrol boats.
Something in Paul's inner mind felt grateful that the car awaiting was a standard model of police car instead of the traditional patrol wagon.
However, we can check with Toby Reed as soon as we get back to the patrol car.
If I were a man and manifested the reckless thirst for universal carnage that I do you would call the patrol and bear me away to the lock-up; but being a poor little, innocent woman I have it all my own way.
Do you imagine that by and by at the upper court, whither we are all hastening as quickly as the old patrol wagon of time can carry us, there will be any distinction made between men and women?
The patrol pushed its way roughly in at the doorway.
A patrol of Tirailleurs Indigenes passed by going up the street, in yellow and blue uniforms, turbans and white gaiters, their rifles over their broad shoulders.
She saw the patrol of Tirailleurs Indigenes marching at the double to the doorway in which the Arabs were still struggling.
An enemy patrol dashes forward to destroy the wire, knowing that it will never return alive.
At last, one night, we caught a Boche patrol on No Man's Land and wiped them out.
There's few nights that the British haven't got a listening patrol out somewhere on the line.
A French patrol rushes out to mend the gap, throwing coils here and there and is, in its turn, wiped out by grenadiers.
I know of six officers, right in this sector, who have been killed in listening-patrol work, and I couldn't count how many men.
Not yet the attack, it was a patrol of German wire-cutters, trying to sneak up under cover to make an opening.
He was in several skirmishes in Belgium and Northern France early in the war, being once surrounded in patrol work (November 11) by Turcoes and Zouaves.
This was the more remarkable as the teacher-orderly had many times distinguished himself upon dangerous patrol expeditions and in critical situations, winning the confidence of his superiors and the likelihood of promotion to corporal.
In point of fact, he said he had once on patrol stuck a Gurkha through and the Gurkha’s eyes had since followed him in his mind.
On the 22d, there was a clash with a Cossack patrol of far superior numbers.
There was a lively exchange of shots, in the course of which five of the eight men on patrol fell.
A subaltern who had been in the service since 1909 was on patrol under shell fire from the enemy, but shortly thereafter came with his detachment into the zone of the German fire.
He could hear no sounds aboard the Peruvian warships; and there was no sign of any patrol launches being about.
The port of Antofagasta having been occupied by Chilian troops, the squadron under Admiral Williams left the place and commenced a patrol of the coast, with a view to enforcing a blockade.
He anticipated that there would almost certainly be a number of floating mines to pass through; and it was more than likely that a patrol of the place might be maintained by launches steaming with their lights out.
This exciting little episode over, Jim and his consort resumed their patrol of the harbour until daylight, when their long and trying vigil ceased.
My orders are topatrol it as far as Arensdorf,' said he.
Neither patrol nor sentry thought of troubling us now, and our strange appearance did not strike the attention of the passengers.
At this moment a patrol of night gendarmes came up; and Lincoln, and Jack, and myself were carried off to the calaboose, where we spent the remainder of the night.
The patrol sent to search in town got back at reveille.
We left camp at eight o'clock in the morning, and soon came in sight of a detachment of Bath Cavalry, doing patrol duty.
Taking a curve at 90, he crept up alongside the black car as he heard the siren of a patrol car behind him.
Traffic was light because of the late hour, but the patrol was on the road and might stop him instead of the killers.
On the opposite side of the highway was a patrol of British sailors in white drill landing-kit, their rosy, smiling faces in striking contrast to the saturnine countenances of the Italians.
At the base of the great mine-field which lies across the mouth of the Straits we were hailed by a British patrol boat, whose choleric commander bellowed instructions at us, interlarded with much profanity, through a megaphone.
