The soldier raised his sights and drilled rapid bursts from his carbine at the survivors.
His soldiers had drilled sufficiently and reacted with due speed.
Callina rose from the window seat where she and Romilla had been watching the soldiers drill in the courtyard below.
The soldier drilled a 3-round burst into Kasden before he could close a finger around the trigger of the rifle.
Fire and maneuver: It was the most basic of tactics, one that the soldiers drilled in every week in garrison.
The spirited soldiers drilled to "save the South."
By the end of 1861 700,000 soldiers were drilling in Union camps.
No soldier drilled more exactly, replied more formally, yet every action seemed imbued with a kind of contempt.
Watching soldiers drill may have inspired his later complex choreography.
The soldiers, all in Yarin's colors of white and yellow, did not drill in anticipation of a fight.