They even have artists among the poilus to paint back drops and make properties.
I had been busy as usual, for an additional number of pieces came in from those kind ladies of Scranton who are helping me sew for the brave wounded poilus of my country, valiant France.
He could glimpse long lines of poilus streaming over the shell-hole pitted terrain like ants in army array.
You know what that means, when tens of thousands of poilus have to be transferred during the darkness of night, so that the enemy pilots can't glimpse the movement and give warning?
Lucullan banquets, opulent lunches, all-night dances, high revels of an exotic character testified to the peculiar psychic temper as well as to the material prosperity of the passive elements of the community and stung the poilus to the quick.
That these poilus turned against the government and the class responsible for this gross neglect was hardly surprising.
We were in fundamental disagreement as to the attitude which we, Americans, should uphold toward the poilus in whose behalf we had volunteered assistance, Mr. A.
How do I know how the poilus can get back to their regiments on time?
Premier Clemenceau stepped up to the poilus of the French detachment and shook the hand of each, expressing his pleasure at seeing them, and his regrets for the suffering they had endured for France.
A lady white conduct us up the stairs and open a door, and I see a great number of beds in lines with Poilus in them.
His uniform is the color of the ground; it is not so much pretty as the French Poilus who are the color of the sky.
Jean was put in penitence yesterday because he say one word that is for Poilus only, and Maman turn him against the wall in the corner with the hands behind; and do you know what he do when we regard him not?
Dear godfather, I will tell you the American Poilus have come.
The French hussars and poilus tell of their experiences; the Italians in the Alps, the Austrians in the Carpathians--the stories cover the whole world and every race and nation.
The Yankees warmed up particularly to the Canadians, among whom are many Americans, but the greatest surprise came at the way the French officers and poilus fraternize with their new allies.
There were British Tommies there to welcome their new brothers in arms--and French poilus as well.
It was an ugly, bare shed with a sloping roof resting on iron girders painted clay white, but the poilus had beautified it with a home-made stage and rustic greenery.
There was a special entrance for soldiers and a special exit for soldiers, and at both of these a long file of blue-clad poilus waited for the countersigning of their furlough slips and military tickets.
The poilus listened in profound silence, and when he had finished, a kind of sigh exhaled from the hearts of the audience.
There were no combatants in it when we passed through, only the old poilus who drove the wagons to the trenches and the army hostlers who looked after the animals.
We dodged interminable motor-convoys carrying troops, the poilus sitting unconcernedly along the benches at the side, their rifles tight between their knees.
The poilus crowded round to see them, staring into their faces without the least malevolence.
The poilus who come to the village en repos are from every part of France, and are of all ages between nineteen and forty-five.
Little groups of poilus gathered round the soldier newsboy; I saw some of them laughing as they went away.
But I can't imagine several regiments of French poilus doing in little German towns what the Germans did at Nomeny.
And the books--all her library--have gone to the convalescent hospitals, or to the poilus in the trenches.
A company of blue-clad poilus sat some way off, in the middle of their packs, eating a scratch meal.
As he stood watching, porters and pack-laden blue helmeted poilus jostled him, until he found a small oasis of quiet near the bows.
One of my poilushad found the bed so inviting that he had appropriated it.
Night overtook me in the cutting while I was leading my poilus to relieve the Adjutant.
The Vauxmarie Road is only a few steps away and I place my twenty poilus along the sloping side of a ditch.
Although the officer was kind enough to make ownership of all available motor trucks common, he could not do as much for the language of the poilus who drove them.
Our little group of civilians had come thousands of miles to see this thing, but the poilus did not stop to watch marching men.
The poilus realized that before the film was done and so did the Indians.
The poiluswere decidedly friendly but somewhat amazed at the big men who made so much noise with their jokes and their songs.
A trench during a relief is no good place for a demonstration, but some of the poilus paused to shake hands with the Americans.
Poilus and doughboys did not go so far back for their subjects of conversation.
The poilus who began the day with a cup of black coffee and a little war bread were amazed to see the doughboys start off at daylight with Irish stew, or bacon or ham or mush and occasionally eggs in addition to white bread and coffee.
A few found no trouble in giving orders which the poiluscould understand, but some had bad cases of stage fright.
My two elderly Frenchmen had given a little, under protest, saying (what was perfectly true) that it would go for drink and wouldn't do the poilusany good.
She was awakened by a wrangle and then--but let her tell it: "Then I saw a couple of poilus sticking their heads in our window shaking a beret and asking for contributions to help them enjoy their week's leave of absence in Paris.
But hundreds of poor poilus had already "gone West," and those who escaped were in such a condition of permanent disability and weakness that there was no danger of their making the Germans pay.
While I was gone a couple of French poilus had come in to chat with the other boys.
One of the poilus had been imbibing a bit and was feeling pretty good, I guess.
The bombardment had been blinding and when the Boches came tearing "over the top" these two sturdy poilus stood their ground and held the enemy back.
Imagine my chagrin on returning at being told that one of the poilus had taken my treasured pipe and my nightcap!
He had heard that the poilus had given her the name in some fanatic belief that she was a sort of fairy ministering to them and bringing them good luck.
But now she was married--this was said with a suggestive raise of the shoulders and eyebrows--and the poilus were not so much in evidence.
From Noyon we were escorted south to a small town called Blerancourt, where the poilus come home for vacation, and a gayer place I never was in.
The group of poilus who were stationed in the lookout gave us a gay welcome.
He assured us that he did not hurt the patient, but there was a difference of opinion on that subject, for the poilus yelled nobly most of the time.
Clerambault heard him one day talking with a friend named Lagneau on leave from the front; they said the poilus meant to knock everything to pieces when the war was over, maybe before.
French poilus were in the hall, crippled or convalescent, after their day of battle, and with their women around them they stood at attention while the national hymn was sung.
One word is heard again and again in the hospital wards, where the poilus lie, those bearded fellows, so strong when they went out to the war, but now so weak and helpless before death.
The love of women and of all those people who had not been called upon to fight went out to those poilus at the front, in waves of emotion which reached as far as the advanced trenches.
Jimmie's companion jumped up and ran again, and Jimmie followed, and a hundred yards or so back they came to a shell-hole with half a dozen poilus in it.
The poilus looked over the top of the shell-hole, and saw a swarm of those new fashion-plate soldiers, darting forward through the woods, throwing themselves down and shooting at the sockray Bosh.
He has established a series of schools all along the French Front, where the Poilus learn to bedeck their guns and thoroughly disguise them under delicate shades of green and yellow, with odd pink spots, in order to relieve the monotony.
The principal grief of the Poilus appeared to be that a shell two or three days before had destroyed the store of the great "dragee" (sugared almond) manufactory of Verdun.
Across the road, standing on the top of a high wall, in sharp silhouette against the sky, three poilus stood to watch.
I went out into the centre of the hut to see what was going on; all about me stretched a swarm of poilus in a genial mood.
Just above the clock we came upon a tiny platform transformed for the time being into light-housekeeping apartments for two poilus who night and day keep watch there for enemy aircraft.
On the way I pass lads in olive drab with whom I exchange a smile and a hello, villagers bare-headed, in sabots, and poilus in what was once horizon blue.
I was sorry for the poor beast cooped up in the little box and wanted to give it a drink of water, but the poilus insisted that this would be fatal.
The whole trouble springs, I gather, from the eternal feminine and the native jealousy of the male; the Fair Sex of Mauvages having made quite evident to the poilus their decided preference for the doughboys.
One of the poilus is a handsome brigadier, or corporal, who wears wooden shoes.
A moment later one of the poilus announced; “A squadrille of Gothas has just crossed the lines, headed for Paris.
The politeness of the poilus is equalled by that of the clientele.
Crowded into the trucks they rolled out through the Château gates, the poilus smiling and waving their good hands, while the Tommies raised a ragged cheer.
The poilus were astonished to learn that wooden shoes were unknown among us!
A score of grinning poilus crowded about us: it was evidently as good as a show to them.
Les défences de Verdun the poilus call the wood-pile.
Just beyond the station-house we passed a little cortege of poilus carrying the body of their comrade on a stretcher-bier.
Forseeing that the poilus would form a large proportion of the audience, I tried to get an interpreter to explain the pictures in French to them but at the last minute the interpreter failed me.
Through the yard gate that opens on to the road we see a group of poilus strolling, nose in air, devouring the sunshine; and then, all alone, Tellurure.
Thus do thepoilus converse who are suddenly placed under the spell of a town.
For after all, now, besides falling out sometimes and blackguarding each other, you'll never hear two poilus open their heads for a minute without saying and repeating things that the printers wouldn't much like to print.
Four poilus join in a game of manille, that will last until night blacks out the cards.
And among the idle poilus of the guard-room at the end of the place, under the wing of the shaking and rattling signboard which serves as advertisement of the village, [note 3] a conversation is set up on the subject of this wandering buffoon.
Fouillade has put his chin on his fists, and looks unseeing at a corner of the room where the crowded poilus elbow, squeeze, and jostle each other to get by.
The blots made by the uniforms of the poilus grouped about the hillocks of rifles become indistinct, and blend with the ground; and then their mass is betrayed only by the glow of pipes and cigarettes.
At every step on the ground in the fields you'd got lumps as thick as your arm and as wide as that, and it'd take four poilus to lift the lump of iron.
Three or fourpoilus who were quite without their accouterments have disappeared underground.
In the village groups of poilus go by, or in twos, joined by the crossing bonds of converse.
It is a real hardship indeed, and the sight is pitiful of the poilus who cannot light pipe or cigarette but put them away in their pockets and stroll in resignation.
Her gallant poilus showed the world how cheerfully men may die in defense of home and liberty.
New life came into the war-weary ranks of heroic poilus and into the steel-hard armies of Great Britain.
They can, and do, accept assistance for their needy poilus and for others from the American Red Cross, because, in the end, the organization is international and is not affiliated with any particular religious sect.
Ruth got over being worried by amatory bouts with the wounded poilus after a while.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poilus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
