shell-hole

And I'm running from shell-hole to shell-hole in their wake, calling for mummy.

INTERVIEW: 10 Questions with Joe Abercrombie 2009

Here, too, he saw for the first time a big and quite recent shell-hole, for the Russian guns were searching out the position.

Greenmantle 2005

They are lying now out on the battle-field; some in a little grave dug and blessed by their chaplain, who loves them all as if they were his own children; others stiff and stark with staring eyes, hidden in a shell-hole where they had crept to die ...

11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003 John 2003

From one shell-hole to another he wormed his way, till he struck an old ruinous communication trench which led in the right direction.

Greenmantle 2005

He wrote this from a shell-hole during a battle in 1916 and this is what he said.

If Mike and Tom Can Get Along, Why Can't Canada? 1997

In 1918 he was blown up and buried in a shell-hole near Caudry, and that left him with a bad nervous breakdown, lasting, on and off, for two years.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

The personnel eventually thought fit to take shelter in an adjacent shell-hole until the Hun had finished his unpleasant pranks.

The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919 Fred W. Ward

There is nothing for it but to remain crouched in a friendly shell-hole, which affords a little protection, until the storm blows over or to risk the chances of being hit in the open.

Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose

An auxiliary wire tapped into the main F.O.O. line is led to another pill-box, now to be used as a new infantry headquarters for the time being, and the party comes under the fire of a hostile machine gun emplacement, which necessitates their lying in a shell-hole for a while.

Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose

I read messages and wrote out the relief orders by the light of a blazing tree, which had fallen across the shell-hole then being occupied by Battalion headquarters.

The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919 Fred W. Ward