Trenches

Examples

• The column moving detached from the army still in the trenches was, excluding the cavalry, very small. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He fortified his new position, and our trenches were then extended from the left of our main line to connect with his new one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Constantinople was invested, trenches dug, and advances made. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The forces in the trenches were themselves extending to the left flank. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These mines can be thrown for a considerable distance and create havoc in the enemy’s trenches if the aim is true. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Arm and put in the trenches your quartermaster employees, citizens, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These answered as cochorns, and shells were successfully thrown from them into the trenches of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The fashion of delving out fulfillments of prophecy where that prophecy consists of mere ifs, trenches upon the absurd. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The use of the tank against trenches was an altogether obvious expedient. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The spending of three and four arduous nights a week in these trenches by Mr. Edison and his associates suggests the rigor of the later European warfare. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I practised in the trenches. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is known that against such weapons of offense no fortifications can last and that the employment of such weapons has forced both armies to depend on their trenches as their main defense. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hancock came up and proposed to take any part assigned to him; and Smith asked him to relieve his men who were in the trenches. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The excellent insulation obtained by means of gutta percha covered wires has caused a return to the original plan of burying the wires in trenches in the ground. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The necessary occupation of a ditcher prepares him to work in the trenches, and to fortify a camp, as well as to inclose a field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Austrian trenches were above on the hillside only a few yards from the Italian lines. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It cannot be impressed too strongly upon commanders of troops left in the trenches not to allow this to occur without taking advantage of it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the trenches of the Western front alone during the late war thousands of potential great men died unfulfilled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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