Then he had a mass of turf put over the trenches to hide the trap: wishing to cut off the unwary enemy by tumbling them down headlong, and thinking that they would be overwhelmed unawares by the slip of the subsiding earth.
Frode, distrusting his power of attacking this town, commanded several trenches of unwonted depth to be made within the camp, and the earth to be secretly carried out in baskets and cast quietly into the river bordering the walls.
Before daylight the captured trenches were filled with as many men as they could hold.
I also visited a large, perfectly equipped Red Cross First Aid camp, all built underground, extending from one line of trenches to another.
All trenches, communication traverses, and observatory dugouts have received names which are printed on shingles affixed to the trenches on little upright posts.
Austrian and German troops have been concentrating for several days along the Swiss-Italian border; miles of trenches have been dug.
On the road before us was a company of territorial infantry who had been eight days in the trenches and were now to have two days of repose at the rear.
Ronaldson held on till dusk, when the whole of the captured trenches had to be evacuated, and the detachment fell back to its original line.
When one leaves the trenches at the rear of the communication boyaux, it is astonishing how little of the war can be seen.
Every kind of expedient has had to be thought out and adopted to keep the lines of trenches and defense work effective.
You have read that trenches have changed war, that the life of a soldier is regarded as so precious by those who devise the war machines, that everything is done to protect him.
I had seen the men in the trenches and it was at Commines that I saw them out.
Perhaps a telephone call from the battery down to the trenches where the muzzle of an aeroplane gun was tilted to the sky.
Near Labasse I had seen the trenches at night, but I wanted to see them by day; for at night the soldiers are all keyed high; it is then that the hard fighting is done.
Suddenly the night is roaring with the bursting of shells, and down in the trenches the rifles begin their incessant harsh croaking.
In the morning," he said, "we go to the trenches in front of Arras.
Strange things to be reasoning out with yourself, points of military etiquette, with the skies raining death and the whole line of the trenches blazing with a red, repelling flame.
A field flew by, serried with trenches that rotated like the spokes of a great wheel; but the trenches were empty and the road that followed the wire fence close by the tracks, was bare of soldiers.
Yes, in the trenches it was the same; they had settled down once more into the lulling secure feeling of the protection of a dirt wall, six feet high, which paradoxically ends by killing them.
Especially is this so at night when you have to keep sending up rockets that light the ground between the trenches so the enemy cannot creep up.
You thought of them as being too exhausted upon coming back from the trenches to take off their uniforms and wash before lying down.
Upon the 24th of June three Dutch captains were relieving guard in the trenches near the great north bastion of the town, when it occurred to them to scale the wall of the fort and see what was going on inside.
The Spanish had laboured under great difficulties owing to the lack of earth to push their trenches forward to the edge of the moat, arising from the surrounding country being flooded.
Under cover of this the Spanish engineers pushed their trenches up to the very edge of the moat, in spite of several desperate sorties by the garrison.
From the shelter of the distant Italian trenches rose a long line of men.
At eleven o'clock the enemy entered the ditch of our fort, with trenches upon wheels, artillery-proof.
The enemy's trenches had been advanced close to the ramparts, and desperate conflicts were of daily occurrence.
They may approach by trenches without engaging any dangerous fight .
Near Caloocan the Insurgent works were close in, but further off toward La Loma they were in some places distant a mile or more from the trenches of the Americans.
The necessary positions in the trenchesaround Manila from which to make the attack on that city were, in part at least, yielded to the Americans by the Filipinos upon the request of the former.
The attitude of the army officers in the matter of obtaining permission to occupy the trenches needed in preparing for the assault on the city could not have been more correct.
On my way from the railway station to the trenches I met a very much excited officer returning from the front.
Proceed to execute this order on its receipt, posting detachments where they are necessary and trenches will be made without loss of time working day and night.
As most of them were using black-powder cartridges, their four or five miles of trenches were instantly outlined.
The guns were directly in front of and below us and we could watch the laying of the several pieces and then turn our field-glasses on the particular portions of the Insurgent trenches where the projectiles were likely to strike.
They are connected with the fire trenches by means of a covered communication or even tunnels in some cases and are provided with some form of prompt communication with the firing trenches by telephone, bell or other means.
Connecting the listening posts to the fire trenches are the communicating trenches.
The experience of the European war emphasizes the fact that the location of rifle trenches is today, just as much as ever, a matter of compromise to be determined by sound judgment on the part of the responsible officers.
When it is learned that the enemy is approaching, the trenches are filled and the supports moved close to the firing line.
In many instances the first line trenches consist of as many as four or five lines of trenches running in a general lateral direction and connected by deep narrow communicating trenches.
It must be understood that such elaborate preparations can only be made when troops face each other in trenches where operations have developed into practically a siege.
When trenches are to be occupied for any length of time, they must be revetted.
The Country is subject to be overflow'd, by reason of the many Rivers, and because the Natives draw Trenches from them, to water the Rice, and other Grain.
Frequently Lloyd George was in the trenches at the front.
To gratify this desire on the part of the plant we sow its seed in trenches four or five inches deep, about the middle of April, at the North, or as soon as the ground is free from frost.
These trenches are V-shaped, and can easily be made by drawing the corner of a hoe through the soil.
A cold, determined quiet rose in him slowly, as in the trenches when the trumpeter gave the signal for a charge.
The Colorado River trenches the high plateau of northern Arizona with a colossal canyon two hundred and eighteen miles long and more than a mile in greatest depth.
Its texture and lack of stratification give it a vertical cleavage; hence it stands in steep cliffs on the sides of the deep and narrow trenches which have been cut in it by streams.
By the 28th Tamasese had collected seventeen hundred men in the trenches before Saluafata, thinking to attack next day.
At half-past five on the morning of the 29th a signal-gun was fired in the trenches at Laulii, and the Tamasese citadel was assaulted and defended with a fury new among Samoans.
The fundamental cause was want of forage: without it the horses died, and supplies could only be conveyed from Balaclava to the camp by the soldiers, already as hard worked in the trenches as they could bear.
On September 8 the end came: the French trenches had now been brought quite close up to the Malakoff tower, and Pelissier, carefully noting the exact point and moment at which an assault could best be delivered, stormed the great work.
That very evening a detached fort to the north of the town was suddenly stormed, which enabled the trenches to be begun much nearer to the walls than could otherwise have been done.
This new fortification, known as the Mamelon, was so situated as to prevent the English trenches at the south corner of the city being pushed forwards.
We have just finished with two days of penetrating rain and mist--in the trenches the mud was up to my knees, so you can imagine the joy of wading down these shell-torn tunnels.
One wonders now how it was that some instinct did not warn me that one of those khaki dots jumping out of the trenches was the cousin who stayed with us in London.
We're living intrenches at present--I have my sleeping bag placed on a stretcher to keep it fairly dry.
There were Tommies from thetrenches in another train, muddied to the eyes--who showed themselves much more resourceful.
There are men on board who are going back to the trenches for the second time.
In the trenches the other day I heard mother's Suffolk tongue and had a jolly talk with a chap who shared many of my memories.
When I was in London half my mind was at the Front; now that I'm back in the trenches half my mind is in London.
Three times in my experience I have seen the infantry jump out of their trenches and go across.
The way artillery is run to-day an artillery lieutenant is more in the trenches than an infantryman--the only thing he doesn't do is to go over the parapet in an attack.
At the guns, I found that I was due to report as liaison officer, so here I am in the trenches again writing to you by candle-light.
So I came back quite unruffled across battered trenches and silent mounds to write this letter to you.
I brought my haversack into the trenches with me; on opening it I found that some kind hands had slipped into it some clean socks and a bottle of Horlick's Malted Milk tablets.
You run across these trenches in the moonlight as you journey about the country and for the moment you wonder for what purpose somebody dug those long ditches by the shore, and what the trench or irrigation scheme is.
The German trenches are rather better made and the machinery for trenching has been, of course, better prepared by the Germans.
She had been in the German and the French trenches on the line of battle.
Trenches by the beaches and barricades by the highways are noticeable along the entire south and east coasts of England, but they are without stores or equipment.
I do not believe that any great forward movement can be made on either side from or against these trenches in the winter time.
The city of Santiago yet remained in the hands of the Spaniards, Manila was still defiant; and until those two strongholds had been reduced, the boys of ’98 must continue to struggle in the trenches and on the field.
It had just reached the new position when Spanish infantry reinforcements filed into the trenches and began a deadly fire upon the Americans, compelling the battery to retire at a gallop.
Just as I turned to speak to Captain Haskell I was struck by a bullet from the trenches on the Spanish side.
The Spanish fired from loopholes in the stone houses of the town, and, furthermore, were massed in trenches on the east side of the fort.
The fruit supply of the city was absolutely exhausted, and the Spaniards had nothing to live on except rice, on which the soldiers in the trenches of Santiago have subsisted for the last twelve days.
Soldiers whose time of service had expired and were ordered home, had to crawl on their hands and knees through the trenches to the rear.
The Government clerks were rushed into the trenches and hastily armed.
He had been seized by a burying squad and put to work dragging corpses to the trenches from the great piles where the wagons had dumped them.
The trenches were filled with the dead and cleared of bodies again and again to make room for the living until they in turn were thrown out.
Pressing on, Hancock's men advanced against the second series of trenches a half mile beyond.
Next day the two armies lay in their trenches facing each other in grim silence.
These torn and mangled bundles of red rags he had watched the men dump into trenches and cover with dirt had meant nothing real.
His trenches were taken, his guns captured and turned in a storm of death on his fleeing men.
Hill trained his artillery on these trenches and charged them with swift desperation late in the afternoon.
The ragged remnants of Lee's army which had been left there to defend it, held the trenches until reinforcements arrived.
The Confederate forces had retired behind the impregnable fortifications of Atlanta and Sherman lay behind his trenches watching in grim silence.
The trenches were opened and they piled the bodies in one on top of the other, where they had fallen.
And there had followed those awful sickening battles, one after another, until he had fallen back in failure before the impassable trenches around Petersburg.
Behind them lay twenty regiments in their trenches pointed the wrong way.
The recall of men from the trenches to perform a more useful professional and industrial service behind the lines has demonstrated the importance of the supporting civilian army.
An extremely interesting series of projects in plastic material was worked up, particularly some clay models of trenches and dugouts.
New ideals and new ideas gathered in the trenches are appearing over battle lines for new governmental practices.
There had not been time to assign to us posts in the trenches and we had, in fact, not even been placed in position.
General Sheridan was placed in charge of the army of the Shenandoah and the 19th corps, instead of returning to the trenches of the James, marched on from Washington to Martinsburg and Winchester.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trenches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
