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parapet / Morgan, Eric Lease
parapet ... details...
Action Front / Cable, Boyd, 1878-1943
there were uncomfortably many bullets, and even as he leaped on the low parapet one of these struck the top of his forehead ... and pattering down along the parapet of the forward trench; the heavy boom of big shells bursting somewhere details...- creator(s) - Cable, Boyd, 1878-1943
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- subject(s) - trench; macalister; sergeant; courtenay; parapet; trenches; 'enery irving; rifle; gun; rifle; macalister; trenches; parapet; gun; trench; 'enery irving; courtenay; sergeant;
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The Red Horizon / MacGill, Patrick, 1889-1960
into the field on either side, but sometimes they struck the parapets and dislodged a pile of earth and dust ... , and the well-formed parapets. An Engineer walking along the top, and well back from the side, counted us details...- creator(s) - MacGill, Patrick, 1889-1960
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- subject(s) - stoner; trench; trenches; pryor; bill; dug; rifle; shell; dug; rifle; stoner; trenches; trench; shell; bill; pryor;
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A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand / Hay, Ian, 1876-1952
-line parapet. But here they can withdraw behind a convenient ridge, and _strafe_ Boches a mile and a half away ... in the shape of permanent defences. A shallow trench, trimmed with an untidy parapet of sandbags details...- creator(s) - Hay, Ian, 1876-1952
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- subject(s) - boche; wagstaffe; bobby; cockerell; angus; trench; colonel kemp; trenches; major wagstaffe; battalion; brigade; sergeant; headquarters; chatty signaller; brother boche; bobby little; kidney bean; hairy jocks; colonel; bobby little; boche; battalion; wagstaffe; chatty signaller; colonel; hairy jocks; brother boche; major wagstaffe; headquarters; colonel kemp; trench; brigade; bobby; cockerell; angus; kidney bean; sergeant; trenches;
- title - A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand
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Letters from France / Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), 1879-1968
parapet. Yesterday for the first time an Anzac unit entered the trenches in France ... , if you are two feet over the parapet. But you see nothing from week-end to week-end except two muddy walls details...- creator(s) - Bean, C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow), 1879-1968
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- subject(s) - trench; pozieres; australians; trenches; australian; mouquet farm; shell; mud; british; france; australian; france; mud; pozieres; australians; trenches; trench; shell; british; mouquet farm;
- title - Letters from France
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Billets / Bairnsfather, Bruce, 1888-1959
--Fed-up, but determined--The gun parapet. CHAPTER XV Arrival of the "Johnsons"--"Where did that one go?"--The First ... was a large expanse of root field, at the further side of which a long irregular parapet marked the German details...- creator(s) - Bairnsfather, Bruce, 1888-1959
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- subject(s) - trenches; trench; farm; gun; gun; trench; farm; trenches;
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The Heart's Secret; Or, the Fortunes of a Soldier: a Story of Love and the Low Latitudes. / Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
in of its freshness, leaning upon the parapet of the walk, over which they looked down upon the glancing waves ... infantry, quartered at the governor's palace. Such was the party that promenaded on the parapet details...- creator(s) - Ballou, Maturin Murray, 1820-1895
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- subject(s) - bezan; lorenzo bezan; ruez; gonzales; general harero; isabella; isabella gonzales; captain bezan; harero; lorenzo; don gonzales; general bezan; senorita isabella; lieutenant bezan; lieutenant; captain; lorenzo bezan's; soldier; lorenzo bezan's; general harero; don gonzales; gonzales; soldier; general bezan; captain; ruez; bezan; isabella gonzales; isabella; senorita isabella; lorenzo bezan; captain bezan; lieutenant bezan; harero; lieutenant; lorenzo;
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Over the Top / Empey, Arthur Guy, 1883-1963
all over with sticky mud, and men were picking themselves up from the bottom of the trench. The parapet on my left ... of rebuilding the parapet was on. The harder I worked, the better I felt. Although the weather was cold details...- creator(s) - Empey, Arthur Guy, 1883-1963
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- subject(s) - tommy; trench; trenches; fritz; barbed wire; sergeant; gun; rifle; wire; shell; rest billets; barbed wire; tommy; rifle; fritz; rest billets; trenches; gun; trench; shell; wire; sergeant;
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The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. / Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche, 1805-1888
, was often decorated with arcades of blank semicircular and intersecting arches; the parapet consisted ... ] The nebule, chiefly used for the fascia under a parapet. [Illustration] The billet. [Illustration details...- creator(s) - Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche, 1805-1888
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- subject(s) - norman; church; arch; arches; fifteenth century; century; churches; thirteenth century; semicircular arches; communion table; norman style; fourteenth century; twelfth century; arches; arch; semicircular arches; communion table; church; fifteenth century; century; fourteenth century; twelfth century; norman; norman style; churches; thirteenth century;
- title - The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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A Yankee in the Trenches / Holmes, R. Derby
on a periscope frame. It is thrust up over the parapet and the image of the opposing parapet is cast on a little ... cylinders arranged along the parapet. They were about as big as a stovepipe and four feet long, painted details...- creator(s) - Holmes, R. Derby
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- subject(s) - blighty; trench; trenches; trenches; blighty; trench;
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