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Camouflaged by rainbows, skylarks, fairies, peris, sensitive plants and Epipsychidions, there was no more successful softener than Sapper Shelley. "You are a funny people, you Shelleyites," Explorer Henry M. Stanley warned an officer of the Shelley Society. "You are playing-at a safe distance yourself, maybe, with fire. In spreading Shelley you are indirectly helping to stir up the great socialist question . . . the one question which bids fair to swamp you all. . . ." Thomas Carlyle rudely cut short one Shelleyite rhapsody. "Yon man Shelley," he growled, "was just a scoundrel, and ought to have been hanged...
...looking down into a hole before climbing in, saw burst gas mains and cut electric cables and said: "I don't mind being gassed, I don't mind being blown up. But I don't bloody well like being electrocuted -are those wires SAFE?" Another sapper, sitting astride a bomb in its cavity, suddenly shouted: "Get me out of here." His helpers hauled him out with ropes in record time and were set to run when he pointed to the bottom of the hole and said: "There's a ruddy great rat down there...
...Libya (see map}), fortnight ago, started the Italian spearhead-a long thin line of light Fiat tanks in Indian file, three infantry regiments, including many blacks, a machine-gun battalion, a company equipped with mortars, an artillery regiment with heavier 10-centimetre Ansaldos and Vickers 15.2s, two sapper companies with well-drilling and road-building equipment, a communications company with water trucks, two mopping-up units, support from the Air Force, using mostly Breda combat bombers, and from reserves, bringing total strength to about 250,000. This well-balanced striking force drove first for Salûm, five...
...martial was indefinitely postponed, and he was transferred to a dangerous advanced post, kept there on the supposition that sooner or later he would be killed. Day after he tells Berlin his story a shell gets him. At his funeral Berlin meets Kroysing's brother, a hard-bitten sapper lieutenant, tells him the story. Lieutenant Kroysing swears vengeance. He manages lo gel his brother's company transferred to the dreaded Fort of Douaumont, intends to keep them there until he gets a signed confession from the captain that he knowingly sent young Kroysing to his death...
...tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried his sapper's axe. The typical Napoleonic uniform included high stiff headgear, tight white trousers or very...