"Sandbag" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (shelter) 666; camouflage &c (concealment) 530; fortification; munition, muniment^; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse^, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment^; kila^; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field- work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation^; paling &c (inclosure) 232; palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado^, laager^, sangar^; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise [Fr.]; abatis, abattis^, abbatis^; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... 664; balistraria^; bunker, screen &c (shelter) 666; camouflage &c (concealment) 530; fortification; munition, muniment^; trench, foxhole; bulwark, fosse^, moat, ditch, entrenchment, intrenchment^; kila^; dike, dyke; parapet, sunk fence, embankment, mound, mole, bank, sandbag, revetment; earth work, field- work; fence, wall dead wall, contravallation^; paling &c (inclosure) 232; palisade, haha, stockade, stoccado^, laager^, sangar^; barrier, barricade; boom; portcullis, chevaux de frise [Fr.]; abatis, abattis^, abbatis^; vallum^, circumvallation^, battlement, rampart, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... horses also, until it got to be a nightmare. I used to shudder every time I saw wagons or troops on that road. My dugout looked out on it. I got a square hole, 8 by 8, dug in the side of the hill (west), roofed over with remnants to keep out the rain, and a little sandbag parapet on the back to prevent pieces of "back-kick shells" from coming in, or prematures from our own or the French guns for that matter. Some straw on the floor completed it. The ground was treacherous and a slip the first night nearly buried——. So we had to be content with walls straight up ...
— In Flanders Fields and Other Poems - With an Essay in Character, by Sir Andrew Macphail • John McCrae
... with his sandbag; and seeing this, Tom leaped back, and was soon making tracks as fast as his ...
— The Rover Boys at School • Arthur M. Winfield
... When he awoke, he found to his horror that he had slept all night among the dead men in the morgue. There was a cemetery at Railway Dugouts, which was carefully laid out. Beyond this there was another line of sandbag homes on one side of a large pond called "Zillebeke Lake." They were used ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott
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