working-party

Blenkiron and I lay like a working-party between the lines caught by machine-guns, taking a pull on ourselves as best we could.

Greenmantle 2005

I ran through the arch into the garden, across which Australians were picketed in lines, and asked them for a working-party.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

He had even thought of recruiting that young man into his working-party of able-bodied and devoutly inclined helpers, to make sure that he spent the day away from anywhere Godith might be.

One Corpse Too Many Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1979

If that was no use then I could stick it out till a chance came and I had a hacksaw blade and if the chance didn't come I could try to make a break from a working-party and if I couldn't make a break I could use a dinner-knife on the wrists and cut the rest of the sentence away.

The Striker Portfolio Hall, Adam 1968

This was unpardonable, but the Turks noticed nothing out of the ordinary, and unerringly bombed the working-party in the wadi, quite content at finding so obvious a target.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

General John E. Smith's division covered the working-party engaged in rebuilding the railroad.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

This novel form of working-party at first delighted the men, who set about the crops in goodly earnest.

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose

Major Tupper, with three hundred men, attacked the working-party, killed ten or twelve men, and took the rest prisoners.

The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson

Thomas Philbrook, who was a prisoner on board the Jersey for several months was one of the "working-party," whose duty it was to scrub the decks, attend to the sick, and bring up the dead.

American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

Possibly the authorities, who sometimes see more than they appear to, had this in mind when later they changed the word to "working-party."

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett