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Comedians are in the trenches, the ones that get out of the trenches are ones in trouble.

Researchers are also exploring how deep-sea trenches bury carbon and other chemicals in the seafloor.

But it is often in the trenches that the truth is most apparent.

Soon troops from both sides exited the trenches, met their enemies in peace and even agreed not to fire on one another.

On display in the showroom were elegant women in long black pants and finely lapelled jackets and trenches.

By bad luck d'Amade was away, up in the front trenches, and I could not well deliver myself to des Coigns.

He insists on my going round the French trenches and sent a capitaine de la Fontaine along with me.

By the time we had passed along the whole of the French second line and part of their front line trenches, I had had about enough.

The shells came from Asia and Achi Baba:—in a fiery shower, they fell upon the lines of our front trenches.

Again visited Headquarters 29th Division, and afterwards walked through the trenches of the 87th Brigade.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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