We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm`s length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.
Fritz Kreisler
The goal is to simply give the governor and the commissioner of education an opportunity to have face-to-face conversations with teachers and higher education employees who are basically in the trenches every day.
Mark Gray
I had wanted to make a film about World War II for some time, but I didn`t really want to do something that was set in the trenches, so to speak.
Michael Apted
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of sh...
Fritz Kreisler
However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.
Paul von Hindenburg
How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.
Neville Chamberlain
But now that I`m cartooning full-time, I`m more of an observer. I`m talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it`s not like being in the trenches.
Andrew Arulanandam
All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
Paul von Hindenburg