Citations:puits

English citations of puits

Singular noun

• 1857, George Bradshaw, Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol, page 37:

  Further on is a puits or pit, bored in the last century, in search of salt; and then smaller reservoirs, with the blasting holes.

• 1936, Sir James Edward Edmonds, Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1914, page 144:

  A similar command over the southern part of the battle zone was given by the combined wheelhouse of a fosse and a puits in Loos village, the standards of which were known as the Loos Pylons, or "Tower Bridge”, from their resemblance, at a distance, to that familiar London landmark.

• 1994, John Ernest Flower, Burgundy, page 74:

  The Puits is protected from the weather by a kind of greenhouse and there is a raised walkway around the statues.

• 2015, F. Loraine Petre, Major-General Sir H. Cecil Lowther, The Scots Guards in the Great War 1914-1918:

  The losses of the Scots Guards as they moved up the slope were terribly heavy from the machine-gun fire above mentioned, but they persistently carried on, and gained the Puits and the Keep.