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Definition of Tommies
1. tommy [n] - See also: tommy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tommies
Literary usage of Tommies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"tommies IN A RUINED CITY Finding a piano among the ruins, one of their number
has opened it and begun playing Fresnes, with little resistance, the main body ..."
2. Forty Years in Constantinople: The Recollections of Sir Edwin Pears, 1873 by Edwin Pears (1916)
"The Only Gentleman in Europe "—British tommies and a Turkish Toll Collector—Gallantry
and Death— A Strange Court Scene—The Scots at ..."
3. The War of the Civilisations: Being the Record of a "foreign Devil's by George Lynch (1901)
"ARMS AND THE MEN— ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF tommies— THE POSSIBILITIES OF
CHINESE SOLDIERS- LESSONS TO BE LEARNT FROM THE THREE SIEGES. ..."
4. Gas and Flame in Modern Warfare by Samuel James Manson Auld (1918)
"... to the horns—The Tear Gas Shell—Its chemical analysis—Combated by anti- gas
goggles —tommies scoff at Tear Gas.—The Germans make it formidable. ..."
5. A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes (1918)
"CHAPTER V FEEDING THE tommies TT^OOD is a burning issue in the lives of all of us.
It is the main consideration with the soldier. His life is simplified to ..."
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