But 'enfilade' is in my top 5 most awesomest things ever, and 'one armed scissor' rocks my world. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
'A moment more, and he would have had us in enfilade. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
The rocks curved about — they could not enfilade us. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
Heavy firing from Iberian commenced to enfilade our ranks. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
Germans to ambush and enfilade advancing British infantry. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
Usually posted to enfilade the entanglements of the first line. From Wordnik.com. [Military Instructors Manual] Reference
Hill, where he will enfilade the kopjes north of the iron bridge. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
'A quick firer to enfilade the trench, and snipers for the beach. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
At dawn we were able to enfilade with machine-guns the vacated trenches. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Beautifully built fortifications, set up to fire enfilade down the beach. From Wordnik.com. [D-Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II] Reference
Machine-guns were manned, which swept the ground with a fierce enfilade fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
To this success "B" Company, 6th Machine-gun Battalion, contributed largely by enfilade fire. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919] Reference
Set within an arch above the grand staircase, it had as a backdrop a dramatic enfilade of columns. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Henry Adams: Saluting the Met's Gay Gala!] Reference
By this manoeuvre a great deal of enfilade fire was brought to bear both from guns and machine-guns. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919] Reference
Still, the men staggered forward bravely, to come almost at once under fierce enfilade machine-gun fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference
The left section was about eighty yards away from the enemy and subject to constant bombing and enfilade fire. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
They reached the enemy's trenches, but were driven out by enfilade fire, their gallant commander being killed. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
It is also important to note that the Hindenburg system was being taken in enfilade on this part of the front. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919] Reference
The enemy held the ridges across the valley and from them directed an accurately ranged machine-gun fire in enfilade. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
Those fellows will be certain that I am up here, while I enfilade them from the western end with this fine binocular. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
Can't enfilade it, you see, and the breach in the outer wall will serve as a glacis to protect the base of the inner wall. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Tiger]
Their guns had the range of the bank up and down the river, and could enfilade an enemy attempting to land in that vicinity. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
For the automatics, it was rather high; but the enfilade would be masterful whether the train was going up or down the line. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
But as our leading platoons drew near to the enemy main positions, they came under an enfilade fire from the west bank of the. From Wordnik.com. [With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917] Reference
Points, the capture of which would facilitate enfilade or reverse fire, and would thus render the rest of the position untenable. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference
These he got quickly into position to enfilade the enemy as he passed over Van Cleve's abandoned ground, and while Wiley with his. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876] Reference
They both shot rapidly down the crumbling Yankee line -- repeaters were made for enfilade fire; Federals went down one after another. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
At this moment Captain Biddle was ordered to cause a field piece to be posted so as to enfilade the exterior plain and salient glacis. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Our fellows had discovered that the best field of fire was from the towers, which projected sufficiently to enfilade two walls at once. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
Already it was doing a left incline in accordance with its instructions, so as to enfilade a communication trench which ran back to N. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
Meanwhile our bandoliers were nearly empty, and the Boers were creeping round to our right, which would enable them to enfilade our position. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Sand bags and port holes were adjusted to this new form of fire and orders were issued to open enfilade fire after nine at night, sniping briskly. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
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