Lexicographical Neighbors of Poilus
Literary usage of Poilus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The White Flame of France by Maude Lavinia Radford Warren (1918)
"CHAPTER XVII BARNSTORMING FOR THE poilus IT was very early in the morning on a
platform of that station in Paris from which the poilus depart for the front. ..."
2. History of the American Field Service in France, ʻFriends of France", 1914-1917 by James William Davenport Seymour (1920)
"We were all below in the abri when he came rushing down the muddy stairs and
shouted to us what had happened. And each one of those simple poilus wrung my ..."
3. Gunner Depew by Albert N. Depew (1918)
"CHAPTER XIII LIMEYS, ANZACS AND poilus One night, while we were expecting to
attack, the word was passed down the line to have the wire cutters ready, ..."
4. Gunner Depew by Albert N. Depew (1918)
"CHAPTER XIII LIMEYS, ANZACS AND poilus One night, while we were expecting to
attack, the word was passed down the line to have the wire cutters ready, ..."
5. A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston (1916)
"CHAPTER VIII MESSIEURS LES poilus DE LA GRANDE GUERRE THE word "poilu," now
applied to a French soldier, means literally "a hairy one," but the term is ..."
6. On the Edge of the War Zone, From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of by Mildred Aldrich (1917)
"... AND HlS "PoiLUS" "I hear he was on the battlefield from the beginning. . .
has written his name in the history of the old town under th Bossuet — and in ..."
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