trench

• Movement of ten or twenty feet in advance of a trench was a big success. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
• A shout that anyone had discovered a new grave in the trench was a signal for the others to stop work, gather around the place, light cigarettes, and watch me or my collaborators dig out the specimens with knives. —  Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
• We do not start by daylight Beyond the trench is a wire entanglement, also a fine specimen of early 1915 R.E. work. We may note in passing the trip wire eight yards beyond. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916
• I thought our trench was a much nicer trench in every way, and I felt it was time to think of going back, when suddenly we hears a norrible yell come up from our trench and sounds of blokes jumping about. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916
• This trench was a great convenience, as it enabled reliefs to be carried out much more securely by avoiding going over the open, and permitted of visits of inspection to be made by daylight, and the wounded to be carried back to the dressing station at Kemmel. —  The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion

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