A sapper drove, the corporal sitting beside him on the box seat.
On the tail-board, with their backs against their precious motor-cycles, sat the two lads, anothersapper keeping them company.
The sapper was right, and it is pleasant to read letters like the above when emanating from an entirely independent source.
The following extracts from a letter from Sapper F.
Sapper John Perie was on that day conspicuous for his valour in leading the seamen with ladders to storm the Redan.
He would have been killed by the Afghans had not a sapper and two men of the 13th rushed forward and rescued him.
The order for the rear came, but the convoy was hardly en route when the sapper felt a griping in the pit of the stomach and the blood going to his head; whereupon he lost consciousness and went into convulsions.
A sapper of 19, with a nervous mother, had had an attack two years before his war neurosis, of a somewhat similar nature.
A little later, on a hot day in the trench, while working, the sapper turned to a comrade and saw a great black spot on his face.
At the fourth spruit Sapper Webb's horse failed to get up the bank, and he was left in a very dangerous position.
In face of a very heavy rifle and shell fire, and notwithstanding the great chance of being cut off, Sergeant Engleheart returned to Sapper Webb's assistance.
The immemorial tradition of the great Corps to which he belongs has ordained that no fire, however fierce, must be allowed to interfere with a Sapper in the execution of his duty.
But when engaged in the pursuit of his calling, the Sapper is the least retiring of men.
This rule is usually interpreted by the Sapper to mean that you must not perform your allotted task under cover when it is possible to do so under fire.
Off duty, the Sapper is the most unobtrusive of men--a cave-man, in fact.
So the Sapper walks cheerfully about on the tops of parapets, hugging large and conspicuous pieces of timber, or clashing together sheets of corrugated iron, as happy as a king.
Sapper Harmon continued his dangerous and useful work in the Orchard, where alone and unassisted he worked for thirty-six hours digging tunnels to serve in subsequent operations.
One of the bravest exploits of the many performed during the struggle was that of Sapper Harmon of the 1st Field Company, C.
The corporal had ordered thesapper to stand up on a parapet where the fire from the guns would hail upon him, while he himself, in safety down below, handed the baskets up to him.
One day as Gordon was going the round of the trenches he heard a corporal and a sapperhaving hot words.
In one moment Gordon had jumped up on to the parapet, and ordered the corporal to stand beside him while the sapper handed up baskets to them.
The Reggie in question was a young Sapper just then stationed at Chatham, and a "very favourite cousin.
Is young Ffolliot going to be a Sapper by any chance?
Keep Corporal Mann andSapper Winter on the telephone board to-day," I advised Bliss, the youngster who had come to headquarters the day before to do signal officer.
And there was an old sapper colonel who made it his business to get hold of the stragglers.
The sapper officer who had brought the material wanted to wait till the proper people arrived, but the Boche was shelling and machine-gunning like mad, and the colonel said that bridge-building must be got on with at once.
On the bridge stood a keen-eyed, small-featured sapper major.
The data and information on which these changes and revisions were based were constantly pouring in from the photographic branch of the air service, from the intelligence service, the Artillery, and from the sapper regiments at the front.
Sapper found marls and sandstones which he believes to belong to the Upper Tertiary, lying horizontally at a height of about 7500 ft.
There was an argument between a lance-corporal in the Camerons and a sapper private about some trivial incident on the Somme.
A sapper officer forced his way through shouting for a working-party.
A step outside broke the reel of pictures, and the Sapper Officer looked in.
You are, I believe, a sapper officer," commenced the Major.
Every bridge in the hands of anxious-faced sapper officers, prepared for demolition one and all, but not to be blown up till all our troops were across.
Then Sapper Low made an attempt to carry the tape across, and failed to return.
It was in the course of the struggle in the Orchard that Sapper Harmon, of the 1st Field Company, C.
He found out that a mistake had been made and that the attack had not reached the point indicated, and staggered back to make his report, bringing Sapper Low with him.
He did not return, and Sapper Connan went out and failed to come back; and neither of these men has been seen or heard of since.
In response, Sapper Quin attempted to carry through the tape, to mark the line for digging the linking trench, under a heavy fire of shells, machine guns, and rifles.
We sat down on the floor in the light of Sapper Maggs' candle, and Francis and I reviewed our situation.
Francis nudged me, indicating the sapper with his eyes.
His name was Maggs, Sapper Ebenezer Maggs, of the Royal Engineers, and he was captured near Mons in August, 1914, when out laying a line with a party.
Every week a hamper of good things is dispatched to 3143 Sapper Ebenezer Maggs, British Prisoner of War, Gefangenen-Lager, Friedrichsfeld bei Wesel.
The perfect insect, although henceforth liberated from the work of a sapper and miner, does not entirely abandon the use of urine as a weapon, employing it as a means of defence.
Adapted from the novel "The Black Gang" bySapper [pseud.
Based on the play "Bulldog Drummond Again" by Sapper [pseud.
Because," added the Sapper in his serious voice, "because he has killed off seven.
Then what was her business with those spies, the Sapper and Nonet?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sapper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dredge; engineer; miner; navvy; pioneer
