pill-boxes

The front-line pill-boxes were here, the main strongholds which had held back the Allied advance for more than a year.

"High-Frequency War" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2009

The front-line pill-boxes were here, the main strongholds which had held back the Allied advance for more than a year.

Archive 2009-03-01 Johnny Pez 2009

He was under no special debt of gratitude to the lord, having given as much as he had taken in the long intercourse which had existed between them — and he agreed with his son in thinking that if there was to be a Liberal candidate at Loughshane, no consideration of old pill-boxes and gallipots should deter his son Phineas from standing.

Phineas Finn 2004

I invested the whole of my capital, at one fell swoop, in advertisements, and purchased my drugs and my pill-boxes on credit.

No Name 2003

It is not to be supposed that the people of Alexandria could look upon my phials and pill-boxes without a yearning for their contents.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

To protect airfields, mobile pill-boxes were constructed, consisting of large concrete drain pipes up-ended on lorries and manned by Bren-gun crews.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

These "stops" - tank-traps, obstructions, water-obstacles, pill-boxes -- were "" distributed in depth over a wide area covering London and the main centres of production and supply.

Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

As soon as possible, Norton told himself, he would string a cat's-cradle of guide ropes between the ship and the pill-boxes, so that they could move around without wasting propellants.

Rendezvous With Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

The grey pill-boxes drifted slowly upwards outside the control port.

Rendezvous With Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

The grey pill-boxes drifted slowly upwards outside the control port.

Rendezvous with Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973