... spied the green light ,in the gable window, they had immediately drawn back round and behind the huge rectangular block of brickwork which formed the angle, so that they could not be seen from the back or side .windows of the house. Some two or three minutes ...

... sickening, ear-splitting crash, the death-cries of the injured; and Pierre Vevier's bridge became a mass broken, useless brickwork. Ten minutes later a large force of French and Belgians burst from the dusky haze to the west, in time to give check to -their ...