He saw that they were under constant fire from the snipers on the cliffs above, and though for the moment the haze protected them, the mist was fast rising.
It was impossible to see more than a few yards ahead, and it would be the easiest thing in the world to miss the way back to the trench, and either go over the steep edge to the beach or get in among the enemy snipers to the left.
Snipers were bad enough, but if the two German 77-millimetre field-pieces were got into position, the trench would be untenable.
The Turkish snipers were still busy, and the sharp crack of cordite echoed from scores of different hiding-places along the hills.
As the Australians went bursting through the scrub, snipers who had crept in close during the night and hidden in the bushes and behind rocks broke like rabbits out of gorse when the terriers are put in.
The order came none too soon, for in a very few minutes snipers got to work again.
A quick firer to enfilade the trench, and snipers for the beach.
Immediately below us on our right lay a big orchard with some houses and hidden there were some snipers that worried us a bit and killed a machine-gun officer and Corpl.
Our snipers gave a good account of themselves, one having seven observed hits to his credit and another five on the same day.
Around this sector of the line sniperswere very prevalent.
Lieutenant Jackson's remark to Herbert a half hour later when the prisoners had been questioned, disposed of and a guard set over them, and in their warm dugout shelter the squad of snipers were gathered about the trench stove.
Now, it's up to you to see to it that these snipers get sniped; to lay for 'em and get 'em as they come.
It was too far away from the German trench to be in danger from rifle fire, but here enemy snipers could venture out.
Presently Sergeant West came to the snipers and addressed Whitcomb: "Corporal, you fellows are all wide awake and with your eyes sharpened.
Herbert knew all of the men in his new squad; they had all qualified as snipers at Camp Wheeler and otherwise he approved of them.
If so, we'd better all go out on the hill again for a little while and try to head off those snipersfrom the other side.
The young corporal had about given up the idea of snipersimmediately opposing his position.
Herbert and Watson went out on the slope to watch for snipers in the early morning.
But no snipers were in evidence and, strangely, they were not shot at even once; at that time this section could truthfully be called quiet.
Creeping out of the trench, the three snipers esconsced themselves in cover, leaving only a loophole for their rifles.
It pattered harmlessly against the bowlders where the snipers were hidden and passed high over the heads of the rest of the men, safe in the gravel-pit.
A chorus answered him, the three snipers claiming the preference.
Had the Officer not been moved, he must again have been hit by the enemy's snipers who were within 300 yards.
The succeeding lines, however, pressed forward, section after section rushed on to the help of their comrades, every rise and every knoll along the river was held by snipers and the battle developed into a fierce contest between skirmishers.
Picked men were told off as snipersto worry and harass the enemy.
Snipers kept an unsteady but never silent series of bullets smacking into the stones of the ruin, whistling over the communication trench, and 'whupp'-ing into the mud around both.
At this time the Château and stables were still standing, and though C Company were in occupation of the stables, the Germans held the Château, from the windows of which their snipers were able to give considerable trouble.
No sooner was this done than the enemy were on the outskirts and their snipers and machine guns were giving considerable trouble.
And so, one morning, the snipers were assembled and the Adjutant gazed at them benignly through his eyeglass.
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.
Think of the Putney Peashooters' ladies meeting those of the Shoreditch Snipers at a small and early, and counting up the bag: five Saxons and a stretcher-bearer against four prisoners and a carrier pigeon.
We had some crack sharpshooters or snipers in trees and also on top of ruins, but took care never to have them near our observation posts lest they should draw fire.
The picked snipers or sharpshooters could be placed in points of vantage to pick off any of the enemy who exposed themselves and a score of them in each company would get very few shots in a day.
These snipers were certainly brave fellows--some were found covered with leaves--one was found in a cleft in the rock where he must have been lowered by his comrades and he could not get out without their help.
But bringing a water supply in pails along narrow trenches is a poor pastime, though better than bringing it up under the rifle-sights of snipers across the fields back of the trenches.
In one instance, a group of American snipers discovered an enemy nest close by and promptly opened fire on it.
German snipers in this sector were also a constant worry to the Americans.
While waiting for a real attack sniping engaged the troops' attention, especially on clear days, when German snipers sought targets.
They were shot at by snipers hiding in trees, they were shot at by big and little cannon with a roar that deafened them; but they went ahead with the French veterans.
These are of great use for snipers but cannot be used by all the men.
The Turks in Gallipoli used to paint some of their snipers a green colour and send them out between the lines among the small bushes.
The snipers from the sea walls did not take part in this "show".
Those infernal snipers get some fifteen or twenty of our chaps up here every day.
For the next hour this job kept him busy, his maxim-gun friend sitting all the time on top of the hatchway, smoking his pipe contentedly and warning him whenever the snipers from the cliff became too busy.
He not only left officers behind to put us up to local tips on his sector, but he told off his best snipers to put our snipers on to the Huns, which they successfully did.
After daybreak, however, the enemy snipers killed several of our men who exposed themselves in trying to see the results of the explosion.
The hostile snipers were masters of the situation, and inflicted serious casualties.
Artillery and snipers are practically never silent, patrols are out in front of the lines every night, and heavy bombardments by the artillery of one or both sides take place daily in various parts of the line.
Further, in spite of continual warnings, men light-heartedly ignored the enemy, and were constantly being killed by enemy snipers through wilful exposure.
After a short period devoted to organisation and training, the snipers of the Division soon obtained a superiority over the enemy.
Isolated snipers hung on until knocked out, and one machine-gunner, who was ultimately killed and his gun destroyed, was firing from in front of the German second line before our men had withdrawn from that trench.
In these circumstances the rescue parties often have to work while the bombardment continues, and with enemy snipers and machine-gunners ready to engage them whenever they expose themselves in the breach.
In consequence it sometimes happens that by the gradual subsidence of the parapet men may unwittingly expose themselves to enemy snipers in places where a day or two previously they were completely hidden from view.
The Turks held barbed wire protected trenches in force and their snipers covered the foreshore.
The Turks had mounted pompoms on the Cape Helles side and had the usual snipers concealed everywhere.
You cannot see a yard in front of you, and so broken is the ground that the enemy's snipers were able to lie concealed within a few yards of the lines of infantry without it being possible to locate them.
To the southeast of Ypres the enemy's snipers were very active.
Against such parties the combined action of the quick-firer against the snipers in buildings, and the Maxim against them when they are driven into the open, is most efficacious.
Through the night firing was heard a very short distance off, but this was only from a few snipers who had somehow got through our lines.
It is always by night these men work, and the Australian snipers get two days off every week to go to the base for a rest.
Pirie was telling us that they had two Australian snipers attached to the Royals, and one of their own men who had done a good deal of jungle shooting was an excellent sniper.
Here most of those still alive were wounded more or less severely, and I set to work on them, removing many useless and harmful tourniquets for one thing, and worked my way to the left towards the high rocks where the snipers still were.
Snipers are giving an extraordinary amount of trouble, the ground yielding itself to numerous hiding places overlooking our beach, about the rocks on our left as well as the immense old fort.
Turks' trenches from four different points, and at each a bullet flew past us, showing that their snipers keep their eyes open.
Gordon then went along to the relief of the company on his left, after ordering Lieutenant Montgomery to get a party of snipers outside the trench so that they could take toll of the enemy.
They bombed the Germans out of the wood and down a trench named Horse Alley, driving them into the open, where oursnipers and machine-gunners engaged them and cleaned them up.
Inland, Colonel Whaling led his scout-snipers and the 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, in a screening movement to protect the flank of the main attack.
Vandegrift also had the use of a select group of infantrymen who were training to be scouts and snipers under the leadership of Colonel William J.
We can also be seen plainly, and snipers are busy trying to pick us off.
I waited, and by and by the platoon commanders, Second Lieutenant Farman and Chislehirst, and Sergeants Blackwell and Barnes, came running along the top, snipers shooting at them as they ran along.
Well, you are not in Havre now; there are snipers about, and if you stand up there like that, you'll get hit.
This was cleared by the leading Companies with little opposition, except for a few snipers left to harass our advance, and by evening the line ran East of that place, a total advance of about 1,000 yards.
There were several machine guns in the village, and snipers were active from the windows of the houses.
Here our first real fighting began, considerable opposition being met with from isolated snipers and machine gun posts, particularly on the right, where A Company had a very rough time.
Stamford, a Stretcher Bearer, who on two separate occasions went forward into the open, in full view of enemy snipers at close range to help wounded comrades, and by L.
It was not surprising, therefore, that for some time the Boche snipers had the upper hand and could do almost what they liked.
He got a permit to pass our troops, but there were too many Sinn Fein positions and snipers to make it possible for them to pass through.
Eight snipers have been shot on buildings commanding the Exchange, and one of the guard was killed yesterday; and these twenty girls have never failed.
They had several on their roof, and when they went up to bed at night they could hear the snipers walking about and talking on the roof.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snipers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
