Sentence examples for sappers and from inspiring English sources

The laments of the bridge builders and the sappers and the miners.

The workforce was predominantly French Canadian and Irish, though British Royal Sappers and Miners were also sent to labour on the project.

For it was Marshall who presided, like some Federalist Buddha, over a Supreme Court that Jefferson described as a "subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric".

The aestheticization of work is an almost obsessive feature of his stories, and danger is part of the aesthetic; his fictional world is populated by steeplejacks, extreme explorers, professional gamblers, sappers, and thieves.

Besides them, we have lost two sappers and a household servant".

The mortars, anti-tank gun, mine detectors, jeeps, sappers and field ambulance section were all missing.

Kip, the Sikh mine sapper and Hana's lover, is the one who must dismantle many of those explosives, whether they're hidden under bridges, in statues, or possibly in pianos.

The anonymous artists lavished as much attention on a series of seventeen drawings of military personnel — Hussar, Highlander, sapper, and so on — as they did on a series that the archivists at the Museum of Natural History dubbed "The Battle of Fruits and Vegetables," which depicts soldiers, armed with muskets, lances, and bows, riding produce into battle.

It seemed unlikely that the Communists intended to launch another full attack on Saigon, in view of the heavy losses they suffered previously, but they apparently did want to infiltrate sapper and special-action squads and other small elements into the city-and even, if they could get away with it, a military battalion or two.

In a review recalling his hatchet job on Ian McEwan's Saturday, John Banville, in the Literary Review, patronised the book as "charming", but only after calling its author "increasingly lazy", and dismissing A Delicate Truth as continuing a long series of "flawed and shrill works": it "marks a return to the days of Sapper and John Buchan, when black was black and white was white".

But in order to accomplish their goal, both Sapper and Pesnell still have a lot of work ahead of them.