This temporarily brought under the enemy's rifle fire, and enabled our infantry to push on.
The heart of the position was searched by a rifle fire from a ridge at the northwest angle.
There was some annoyance from casual rifle fire and a Maxim posted on the heights S.
His idea was not so much to dispute the passage of the river as to use the deep channels as covered ways and as natural trenches from which the plain could be grazed by rifle fire.
I say fairly because when one has to get up three or four times to see whether the accumulated rattle of rifle fire is going to lead to a battle, or turn out only to be merely "wind up," it rather disturbs one's rest.
A confused sound of shouts and yells on our right, intermingled with a terrific crackle of rifle fire, told us the attack had started.
The British had thus come to an exaggerated idea of the efficacy of rifle fire, and a consequent over-estimate of the importance of the German first line trenches.
But, once within the range of rifle fire or shell, you turn your lights on at the peril of your own life.
What they lacked in machine-guns, however, the British troops made up for in a deadly accuracy of rifle fire, which was at once the terror and the admiration of the Germans.
All relieving movements are carried out in the dark to avoid the enemy's rifle fire.
A few fell to rifle fire; Burnet himself had his rifle struck from his hand; but they flung themselves upon the machine-gun team with the swiftness of a tornado.
Pursued again by rifle fire, it flew straight across the island from west to east.
Many were killed by rifle fire, and many machines were lost.
They swept forward, clearing out machine gun nests with rifle fire, bayonets, and hand grenades.
Again the angry voice of the machine-gun, the noise of rifle fire, so heavy that it sounded like the bubbling of water boiling in some gigantic cauldron.
Away behind the firing line, in some quiet spot unreached by shell or rifle fire, is the Clearing Hospital.
Close by was the crackling of rifle fire, for a shed in which the ammunition of the West Yorks was stored had been fired by a German shell.
The wind was blowing our way, and they knew the odours of the battlefield were as hard for us to bear as was their artillery or rifle fire.
First there came a few scattered cracks of rifle fire.
The edge of the ditch on each side of the road fairly flamed with the sputter of rifle fire.
Remember the bridge at Suicide Corner," I said, alluding to a recent incident when I had walked upright across a bridge, exposed to the enemy's rifle fire.
A rifle fire opened on us from the front, and bullets whizzed past our ears, voices mingled with the ting of searching bullets.
For twenty yards from the trench the road was sheltered by our parapet, past that lay the beaten zone, the ground under the enemy's rifle fire.
The men had to shout now to make themselves heard to each other above the constant clatter of the maxim and the roar of rifle fire.
It was now well after midnight, and the firing on both sides had slackened considerably, although there was still an irregular rattle of rifle fire, the distant boom of a gun and the scream of its shell passing overhead.
Trench routine in 1915 was marked by a feature which in subsequent years almost entirely vanished--the constant employment of rifle fire.
This method of preparing an attack by a great volume of unaimed--not undirected--rifle fire is worthy of the closest attention.
The moment approached: but no one was much concerned, for the cars were proof against rifle fire, and this ridge could at the worst be occupied only by some daring patrol of perhaps a score of men.
For full two or three minutes he hunted for the Stonewalls, for the line he wanted to rejoin; and for those precious minutes no beat of rifle fire arose, no hail of bullets swept the ground over which the attack should pass.
The Australian line closed in, pouring a storm of rifle fire on them.
The thunder of the guns continued, and out in front they could hear now the crackle of rifle fire, the sharp detonations of grenades.
And when they were still about two miles from the town they heard the familiar rattle of machine-guns and the long crackle of rifle fire.
In the early stages of the impending action he must depend on rifle fire, and he realised that, with no more than three rifles, a great deal depended on the extent to which the enemy could be intimidated.
There was no rifle fire, no bombs, no sound of cheering.
Having disposed of this body, we encountered no further opposition from Fritz except occasional rifle fire, and we took four stray Germans prisoners along with us.
At night-time the Turks sent out patrols to the hills in advance of the trenches, and from these patrols resistance soon came in the shape of rifle fire, and after sharp skirmishes they were driven back to their lines.
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