"Sapper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... order and care. All about, a well-fed, well-clad soldiery stands In groups round the music of mirth-breathing bands. In and out of the tent, all day long, to and fro, The messengers come and the messengers go, Upon missions of mercy, or errands of toil: To report how the sapper contends with the soil In the terrible trench, how the sick man is faring In the hospital tent: and, combining, comparing, Constructing, within moves the brain of one man, Moving all. He is bending his brow o'er some plan For the hospital service, wise, skilful, ...
— Lucile • Owen Meredith
... at B——'s compartment. His servant, a sapper, was stowing the kit in the racks and under the seat, with the help of a portable acetylene lamp which burnt with a hard white light in the darkness, a darkness which you could almost ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan
... Novak had said, were on the job only a month when they were replaced by fresh recruits—and their pay was based on the productivity of the squads they commanded. Kulan had seen that the Earthman was a real sapper; worth three of the others. And he'd try ...
— Vulcan's Workshop • Harl Vincent
... escaping alike the rigorous winters of the northern island and the fierce summer heat of the southern one. The Bishop himself was a Newfoundlander, as were many of the Church of England clergy in Bermuda. A humorous friend of mine, a sapper in charge of the "wireless," shared to the full my liking for the islands and their pleasant inhabitants, but positively detested Prospect Camp where he was stationed. Prospect, though healthy enough, ...
— Here, There And Everywhere • Lord Frederic Hamilton
... she is," he answered. "And now you can bile up a pot of tea in your own way while I clean these here fish for sapper." ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson |
