While with this unit, Source received training in sapper techniques. From Wordnik.com. [DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT] Reference
"Time to go," said the sapper sergeant to Claudel. From Wordnik.com. [First Clash]
This specially trained sapper can do the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2005] Reference
To my delight, one of the kids answered "A goblin sapper!". From Wordnik.com. [youneverwin Diary Entry] Reference
On the bridge stood a keen-eyed, small-featured sapper major. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Down dives the sapper, and presently his face reappears, with. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
Gunner and sapper and flying man (and each to his job, say I). From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917] Reference
Source's unit had just completed technical sapper training in. From Wordnik.com. [DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT] Reference
Nothing was sacred from that mimic any more than from a sapper. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
TOM BOWMAN: Specialist Jenkins was a sapper, a combat engineer. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers From The 101st Remember One Of Their Own] Reference
Don't fire yet! "shouted the sapper," I don't think he's seen us. From Wordnik.com. [First Clash]
Talk about an energy sapper. 4 hours of boredom to start my day with. From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
While with this unit, Source received additional sapper training from. From Wordnik.com. [DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT] Reference
"What d'you know!" exclaimed the sapper to the 50-cal gunner beside him. From Wordnik.com. [First Clash]
What this sapper fed his gladiator on was a mystery; but it won many fights. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
A nice upstanding sapper, a dashing Bengal Lancer -- oh, I could think of half. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
The territorial sapper major from the 1st London Division stuttered an answer. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
On the night in question a sapper was crawling thru the wire in the wee hours. From Wordnik.com. [I am a glutton for hunting and war stories. Here is your chance to tell one or two.] Reference
Horse, foot, and sapper were packed deep on the Louvain and Tervervueren roads. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
They watched the amateur sapper who'd cut the wire make repairs to conceal their entry. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
And there was an old sapper colonel who made it his business to get hold of the stragglers. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
"Captain wants to speak to you, sir," came the voice of the sapper from under the tarpaulin. From Wordnik.com. [From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War] Reference
The lift was unlit and full of black shadows; only the sapper who conducted it was distinct. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference
For the next three months, the unit received political training and reviewed sapper training. From Wordnik.com. [DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT] Reference
A sapper works on a trench of this kind differently to the way he works on an ordinary trench. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
He used one magazine to kill a closely huddled five-man sapper squad coming toward the building. From Wordnik.com. [Holt, James W.] Reference
I hardly knew Charles Beardmore when he arrived from Berlin the other day, like a sapper and miner. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
One day as Gordon was going the round of the trenches he heard a corporal and a sapper having hot words. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of General Gordon] Reference
The sapper shrugged his shoulders and smiled, 'You can do what you like, because a dead man can't press charges. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
"The bridge was built," as the old sapper told his commander, "before them picters" (the engineer's designs) "came.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
The gunner twitted the sapper, the cavalryman made jokes at the A.S.C., and the infantryman groused at the whole lot. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Tank] Reference
One man, a sapper, made quite a good thing out of backing a scorpion which he carried about with him in a tobacco-tin. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Claudel decided to keep things simple, even to making allowance for a failure of the sapper to blow his charges in time. From Wordnik.com. [First Clash]
His basic military and political training with this unit lasted one year and included sapper and reconnaissance techniques. From Wordnik.com. [DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT] Reference
The sapper was right, and it is pleasant to read letters like the above when emanating from an entirely independent source. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
On the boat he was greeted hilariously by Gillow the gunner and Sparkes the sapper, who invited him below to drink success to the voyage. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference
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