From here parties went out every day to reconnoitre the various lines in the Robecq-St Venant sector, and to get to know the country before we were told to take over the line.
The determination of the amount and direction of this shearing stress, and of the corresponding strains and displacements, was effected by Saint-Venant and R.
He brought it up solidly as far as St Venant on his left, as far as Valenciennes on his right.
Later a fusillade of small-arms ammunition broke out near St. Venant station, suggestive of fighting in our rear.
About this time both St. Venant and Robecq were burning for several days.
On more than one occasion the Battalion returned from its spell in the front line to the St. Venant Asylum, a large institution said to be the second largest of the kind in France.
Still, for the time being, what St. Venant received in shells it paid for in choice vintages and fine houses.
Except for Howitt there was no staff officer upon the spot, and we found after passing St. Venant towards Robecq that it was every man for himself in the task of stemming the German attack.
Subsequently St. Venant was quite heavily bombed by our own aircraft--an example of what could happen during the time that our higher organisation was out of gear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "venant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
