Arrived in the front fire-trench, they were directed to set about roofing bomb-proof dug-outs, in place of another party which was too tired to continue. ❋ Unknown (1930)
He stood up, ruefully rubbed the spots where ammunition pouches had made dents in his person, stepped over his still sleeping cobbers and crawled through the rabbit-hole entrance into the fire-trench. ❋ Unknown (1930)
But Sergeant H----, who was in charge of the company's Lewis-guns, and had been stationed in the next fire-trench, was at present groping his way to safety with a lump of shrapnel in his back. ❋ John Masefield (1929)
The sun rises high and the beams strike with comforting warmth even into the fire-trench where we gather in groups to catch its every glint. ❋ Harold Reginald Peat (1926)
French and Russian, we at last reached the fire-trench, where dim figures looking strangely mediæval in their steel helmets, crouched motionless, peering out along their rifle-barrels into the eerie darkness of No Man's Land. ❋ Unknown (1918)
As we made our slow way back to the fire-trench, and so to the rear, there stumbled at our heels the grunting porter with his ghastly burden. ❋ Unknown (1918)
The last quarter of a mile he performed at the double, and burst into the fire-trench like a bolt from the blue. ❋ D. H. Parry (1915)
The men were trained to fire kneeling and lying, behind cover and without, and also out of a deep fire-trench. ❋ Francis Buckley (1915)
To right and left there stretched the fire-trench -- twisting and turning, traversed and recessed -- just one small bit of the edge of British land. ❋ Unknown (1912)
For it is not only the fire-trench that is wired -- each line behind is plentifully supplied with this beautiful vegetable growth. ❋ Unknown (1912)
When he came to the trenches, at last, and filed down the narrow communication-trench and into his Company's appointed position in the deep ditch with a narrow platform along its front that was the forward fire-trench, he remembered with unpleasant clearness that instinctive start and thought of taking cover. ❋ Boyd Cable (1910)
He grew suddenly excited, then spoke to a Senior Officer, turned, left his platoon and ran back at the double to the fire-trench. ❋ Various (1898)
The fire-trench was almost empty, and in many cases the real defenders of the French line were men with machine guns, hidden in dug-outs at some distance from the photographed positions at which the German gunners aimed. ❋ Francis Andrew March (1895)
In a case recorded on the NW. frontier, a fakir and other persons walked through a fire-trench and showed no signs of injury; others came out with blistered feet and were jeered at as unorthodox Musalmans; a young Sikh, shouting his Sikh battle-cry, performed the feat, and as he escaped uninjured, a riot was with difficulty prevented. ❋ Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali (1885)
"Yes, it rolled into the sap, and I've had it put into the fire-trench. ❋ Unknown (1912)
