drill-ground

The vehicles contained the victims of the Hodyn field, a drill-ground where a terrible disaster had occurred a short time earlier.

Coronation of Nicholas II, 1896 Matterhorn 2009

The vehicles contained the victims of the Hodyn field, a drill-ground where a terrible disaster had occurred a short time earlier.

Archive 2009-05-01 Matterhorn 2009

When McGinty was reproved for his absolute inability to keep step on the drill-ground, he responded that he was pretty sure he could keep step on horseback.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

When they had grown so that they could be handled with ease in marching, and in the ordinary manoeuvres of the drill-ground, we began to train them in open-order work, skirmishing and firing.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

- I might be God Almighty on the drill-ground, telling them where to put their clodhopping feet, but I'd no authority beyond that.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Finding now that our ammunition was exhausted, I sent him notice, and as his regiment marched to the crest the Third was withdrawn in as perfect order, I think, as it ever moved from the drill-ground.

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty

Colonel Walker immediately mounted his horse, and galloping to our quarters, ordered the men to take their arms and proceed to the drill-ground.

Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South William G. Stevenson

On went Van like one inspired, and as we cleared the drill-ground and got well out on the open plain in long sweeping curve, we changed our course, aiming more to the right, so as to strike the valley west of the town.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

General spoke encouragingly to most of us, and told the subalterns that gunnery rules were as important in this sort of warfare as on the drill-ground.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

All human concerns were called on to be listed on the muster-roll and stand shoulder to shoulder on the drill-ground.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various