shell-holes

Keeping well in the middle of the street we constantly had to make detours to avoid large shell-holes.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

Small isolated groups of them in shell-holes and captured positions fought on for days.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

He took some fearsome tosses in shell-holes, but partly erect and partly on all fours he did the fifty yards and tumbled into a Turkish trench right on top of a dead man.

Greenmantle 2005

But no more insane, presumably, than the generals whose only strategy seemed to be that of amassing men in trenches, then sending them in charges against machine-gun nests across open land littered with shell-holes, razor-wire, and bits of the last lot to make the charge.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Later it was discovered, on the contrary, that this destruction made the advance of infantry and artillery impossible over ground so pitted with thousands of shell-holes that they became so many obstacles.

Time Regained 2003

His complexion was full of shell-holes — it bore an unmistakable resemblance to those aerial photographs of “the battle-field at Blank.”

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Through the barbed wire, mud and shell-holes, shyly stood there shaking hands

Christmas 1914 1989

Bound to have seen those three shell-holes on the starboard side, weren't they, Bo'sun? '

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

Captain's Post, carefully plugging up all the shell-holes with sand-bags and other materials so that no light could filter through, and there, at night, would build a great fire in the middle of the stone floor and proceed to enjoy ourselves.

The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride

It was impossible to remove the dead and they were buried in shell-holes, where they fell.

The Emma Gees Herbert Wes McBride