They inhabited a terrain over which he and the forces of American Oil and Gas were to do battle, and like birds nesting on a battlefield, they must take their chances.
He had followed the easterly movement of the mass of the French army along that line to their present establishment between the two woods and to the terrain whereupon the action would be decided.
The nature of theterrain has already been described.
It is impossible for one to pass through the country without leaving a record of his progress written on the terrain and in the minds of the natives.
Poindexter’s counterattack regained the terrain between Camp 1 and the road junction west of the airstrip.
The attempt was doomed because of the terrain they were being forced to defend, an area which had been partially cleared of brush as part of the airfield construction.
Fossil amphibian from the Permian, found in the Plauen terrain near Dresden (Branchiosaurus amblystomus).
But depending on air currents, slope of the terrain and available fuel, they soon take on direction.
Shann studied the terrain with more knowledge than he had possessed a week earlier.
Individuals traveling or foraging in rough terrain or in grassy areas probably are unable to see each other even when they are close to one another.
General suitability of habitat and certain physical features of terrain (rock fences, ravines, barren fields) that acted as barriers were thought to be the most important factors governing size of home range.
Locomotion Ornate box turtles moving forward over even terrain hold the plastron a quarter to a half inch above the ground and keep the head and neck lowered and extended.
Laughing at him while he helplessly awaited the attack that would make it possible for him to spin down low and get close up shots of the mystery terrain below.
By the way, do you know that terrain between Boulogne and Lille?
Countless photo patrols were made over the terrain of Zone K Dash Twenty-Four.
But what little opportunity they did have to observe the terrain below resulted in nothing of value.
There was no cover of any kind, and the whole terrain over which they moved was swept at first by the Boer cannon and automatic guns, and then, as our men drew nearer, by the far deadlier rifles of the enemy.
They were, to a man, mounted, and good horsemen; many of them knew the country; all were accustomed to the peculiar warfare which the terrain in South Africa renders necessary.
A word must now be devoted to the terrain in South Africa.
Rugged mountains dominate the terrain and make the building of roads and other infrastructure difficult and expensive.
It gives one a very curious sensation to go several steps in front of the trench, over the snow, to reconnoitre the terrain ahead of us.
I walked with difficulty because the terrain was bad.
And now the inspectors turned west to follow cattle paths over an undulating terrain for at least two miles.
Where theterrain was level enough, hundreds of jack rabbits were seen.
The terrain was fairly level, but a spirit level would have shown a marked tilt to the east.
She wasn't familiar enough with the terrain to visualize the deployment, which made movement orders impossible to follow.
Indeed, the whole terrain is pitted with shell-holes as is pitted the face of a man who has had the small-pox.
So dangerous is the terrain in this respect that the ambulances and motor-lorries and ammunition-trains could not get up to the trenches at all had not the Belgians, with great foresight, done wholesale tree-planting.
Loring, who was also examining the terrain with a telescope.
For a few minutes there was silence, as Seaton studied the terrain beneath them.
Due to the distance or to the terrain the material result of the fire seemed to be negligible.
However, the terrain does not to-day permit the assembling of cavalry in great masses.
What becomes of this disposition or this march order under the isolated or combined influences of accidents of the terrain and the approach of danger?
But it is true that if the terrain is slightly accidented, if the guide does not march with mathematical precision, the battalion in close column becomes in the twinkling of an eye a flock of sheep.
Battle is delivered on more accidented terrain, as armies with great mobility do not need any particular terrain to fight on.
Anybody advancing, cavalry or infantry, ought to scout and reconnoiter as soon as possible the terrain on which it acts.
Before the range was so long they had to be close together, and the terrain did not always lend itself to this.
Consequently the greater is the necessity for scouting, for reconnoitering the terrain by skirmishers.
But the terrain like all that around Italian villages was covered with trees, hedges, etc.
There are some men whose knowledge of terrain is wonderful, with an unerring eye for distance, who can find their way through places at night which they have visited only in the day time.
The broken terrain of European fields no longer permits, we are told, the operation of long lines, of great masses of cavalry.
Above all, with modern weapons, the terrain to be advanced over must be limited in depth.
Both the first and second stalks failed, owing partly to bad marking in the first case, and to 'impossible' terrain in the second.
Then he snapped into it and began to scan the terrain for signs of life.
Pink gave a high leap, surveyed the terrain as he floated down.
Behind the cloister there is a little door which opens on the Terrain and the water.
More than once the laundress of the Terrain charged "with washing the chapter" had observed, not without affright, the marks of nails and clenched fingers on the surplice of monsieur the archdeacon of Josas.
Our readers are aware that the Terrain was a tongue of land enclosed by walls on the side of the City and belonging to the chapter of Notre-Dame, which terminated the island on the east, behind the church.
Aviation hangar covers were demanded in large numbers, and each one was a special order due to the varying conditions ofterrain encountered.
The fighting in the French terrain with its numerous narrow but deep streams and canals indicated to us the desirability of a portable floating footbridge.
Under the streamlined plane's speeding body the gnarled, bomb-torn terrain of Nevada hurtled by.
