"Parados" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you'd call a representative sector from any point of view. But during a blizzard the other night a messenger who had mislaid himself took us for a serious trench. He made his way along, looking to right and left for some seat of authority until he came to a hole in the parados, two feet by one, where some fortunate fellow had ejected an ammunition box and was attempting to boil water on a night-light. The messenger bent low ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 • Various
... in the first line of trenches did not wait. The sight of the tips of the glittering bayonets was too much for their courage. Their fire ceased; they turned and scurried over the parados, followed by bullets from the Haussas and met by bullets from their German task-masters, who had taken the precaution of stiffening their native levies with a lead ration should they ...
— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman
... respect, indeed, French can probably compete more successfully than any other modern language with Greek. Democritus (410 B.C.) wrote, [Greek: ho kosmos skene, ho bios parados; elthes, eides, apelthes]. The French version of the same idea is in no way ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring
... shells exploding to the rear, and to prevent the figure of a sentinel from being outlined through a loop-hole against the sky. The berm, a ledge or shelf left between the side of the trench and the beginning of the parados, has come into general use in order to take the weight of the parados off the earth at the immediate edge of the trench, and so prevent the reverse slope from caving in easily under bombardment ...
— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker |
