During dinner I was more or less entertained with stories of that day's events as related by the other men, one man describing how a German sniper had put a bullet through his cap during the afternoon in the trenches.
Any movement of a soldier is spotted in an instant, and at once every sniper and machine-gun operator, constantly on the alert on the enemy parapet, opens fire.
Far back in the Reserve Lines or at the wells, where a man thought himself hidden from view, the sniper saw and killed him.
I have heard it said that a good tennis-player makes a good sniper (providing he can shoot) because he has the knack of anticipating his opponent's movements.
Now, the successful sniper is he who anticipates that stumble, or with an uncanny sort of second sight sees that pretty flower which the enemy gentleman is going wantonly to pluck, and aims low accordingly.
One morning early, Major Windeyer, of the 7th, poked his head over the parapet to enjoy the panorama, and a Turkish sniper let fly, the bullet just whizzing past his ear.
Trooper Sandy Jacques showed his head over a parapet for a couple of seconds, and a sniper fired, but by a merciful dispensation of Providence, the bullet split just before reaching him.
I wonder did that sniper wait till he got the three in line, instead of making sure of one?
The rifle-barrel could be pushed through a loophole in the parapet and the sniper standing safely below the parapet could hold the dummy butt to his shoulder and aim his rifle with perfect accuracy by means of the periscope.
It was next to impossible to locate a sniper hidden in this way.
This would give a line leading toward the source of the shot, and when a number of such lines were traced, they would cross at a spot where the sniper or his gun was stationed, and a few shell would put the man out of business.
From these we watched Kellas sauntering along, hoping he would also have to take to his heels, but the sniper left him alone.
Thomson and I saw them all off, then had to cross an open piece of ground where three bullets were fired among our feet evidently by a sniper who was no distance away.
After showing our men across a brook with a dark lantern, some others crossing with stretchers asked for a light, and as soon as I threw a flash on the water a bullet whistled past me from a sniper who must have penetrated our front line.
We returned to this man's battery, and as soon as I started off with Agassiz the sniper had a shot at us, his bullet landing in a tuft of grass a few feet to our right.
Two men were telling me how they caught a sniper established in a tree, with a thousand rounds of ammunition and provisions.
One badly wounded officer got it going out of his dug-out to attend to a man of his company who was hit by a sniper in an exposed place, one of his subalterns told me.
The sniper is a constant danger, and cover from the enemy’s bullets is scanty enough.
Behind each heap of sand and each tuft of brushwood a Turkish sniper was concealed.
De Lisle and General Briggs were going over the ground when a German sniper but fifteen to twenty yards distant opened fire.
Once a sniper spied one of the party, and a bullet from his rifle kicked up a spurt of sand a few feet from my head.
I had been about to call his attention, when the sniper scored, with the result that a shower of broken glass fell into my open mouth.
Any half-competent snipercould take out Ramirez here and now.
He would set up there, a look-down spot from where he could handle the standoff- sniper chores, ready at any time to neutralize any hostiles who might emerge from Launch.
From this point, they were in plain sight from the enemy line and, no sooner had they reached the Elbow than a sniperfired and got Lanning through the lungs.
While delivering this discourse the sniper had been carefully removing straw and tobacco leaves from an irregular hole in the brick wall.
I don't know; he was here when I first came; but I think he was the original sniperof Sniper's Barn.
Meantime, the sniper was keeping up a continuous fire, hitting everything in the neighborhood but me, at whom he was shooting.
Within a few minutes came word than an enemy sniper had shot and killed one of our most popular stretcher-bearers and had also fired several shots into the wounded man whom he was bringing in, killing him also.
The sniper was only about one hundred yards distant and could not possibly have failed to see this mark.
It also allows enough space for the sniper to see through, and, with the aid of the periscope, held usually by a comrade at his side, he is able to get the sight for his firing.
I helped to track and put an end at Houplines to one German sniper who had resorted to a ruse that I really think deserves the dignity of a short chapter all to itself.
Now when a German sniper takes the life of a man in a battalion which goes in for the art itself, it is an unwritten law that from that moment a blood feud exists between the German and English snipers opposite.
Through a hole--also carefully arranged--his screened telescope covered the bit of German trench where the day before the German sniper had lain.
It was dark; the sniper must have heard the sound of his horse's hoofs and fired in that direction.
Then he wondered how it came about that the sniper was behind the German trenches.
Hankin felt certain he had seen the flash of rifles from this hole; but I thought it was too near our own wire to attract any Boche sniper for regular use.
But they didn't seem able to help looking this time, and our sniper did pretty well.
It was fair to assume the Boche sniper who fired that shot would be facing our trenches; the same direction in which we were facing at that moment, since we were working back from the German wire towards our own.
There was no need to crawl, the night being as black as your hat; and in three or four minutes we had that sniper in front of "the Peacemaker" in the Company dug-out.
Right before me then I heard a man's body swing round on the mud, and the sniper let out some kind of a German exclamation which was a sort of squeal.
Once more we took our places on the gun between the wheels and were hardly settled down when a sniper opened up on us from the rear, taking a chip out of the wheel to my right.
At that moment the sniper got him in the leg, but he held to until he repaired it, and was in touch with headquarters, reporting that he had mended the break, when the wire was again cut.
The sniper squad took turns in making pillows of each other.
Far beyond and to one side of the shell pit, easily a distance of three hundred yards, a German sniper was crawling flat on his stomach in an effort to gain a better shelter; perhaps he believed himself unseen.
The German sniper is really a lineal descendant of the impenitent thief.
The fact that a blighter of a sniper kept firing off three or four rounds of rapid fire at my headquarters every few minutes, his bullets rattling on the brick wall close to my window, was not very conducive to sleep or good temper.
When I say a sniper I do not mean a sharpshooter who fires into our lines from the German lines.
Poor chap, he was subsequently assassinated by a German spy or sniperbehind in billets.
I vowed that I would make it pretty hot for snipers, and agreed with myself there and then to pay a reward of fifty dollars for every sniper captured dead or alive inside our lines.
There was a German sniper in the same patch so they began to stalk each other.
Another sniper gave himself away, and the young officer shot him through the head with a revolver, which was very busy all that day.
There's not onesniper out there to-day, to ten who were on deck three days ago.
Till then, go ahead with your regular work and forget the sniper job.
In his vivid imagination that elusive German sniper gradually attained a weight not far from three hundred pounds.
An' you-all don't want it to be said the Germans has got a better sniper than what we've got, do you?
Had he not killed the very best sniper the Germans could hope to possess?
And--and, unless I'm wrong, Kaiser Bill is short one crackajack sniper and one perfectly good Prussian colonel too.
If the sniper sees that he cannot escape, he destroys his telescopic sight.
For killing or wounding an English officer he gets five marks, but if he kills a Red Cap or English General, the sniper gets twenty-one days tied to the wheel of a limber as punishment for his carelessness.
He answered: "For killing or wounding an English private, thesniper gets one mark.
It was Old Scotty's great ambition to be a sniperor "body snatcher" as Mr. Atkins calls it.
I bit all right and asked him why the sniper was, punished for killing an English general.
Sniper Zacharias used his rifle in the assault until it was blown out of his hands; he then became a grenadier and hurled bombs at the Germans until his party retired.
Underneath the waterproof sheet Dudley lay, knowing that there was no chance of the sniper venturing from his lair while this battery of nature's weapons was in action.
Perhaps, after all, a sniper was concealed in the bushes on his left, for the bullet had not been directed at him.
While the riflemen were keeping up a hot fire upon the bush that they supposed was concealing the sniper the company-commander ordered Bela Moshi to turn a machine gun upon the position that Wilmshurst had spotted.
A sniper at eight hundred yards, I should imagine," observed the company commander.
The sniper was anxious to know the actual result of his shot, but too cautious to close until he felt certain that he had killed his victim.
The ground was difficult; every spot likely to afford concealment to a hostile sniper had to be carefully examined.
