For where a 42-centimeter shell falls it does more than merely alter landscape; almost you might say it alters geography.
In the open field, where he must aim his gun with his own eye and discharge it with his own finger, I take it the Kaiser's private soldier is no great shakes as a marksman.

The Germans themselves begrudgingly admitted the French excelled them in the use of light artillery.

There was wonderment as well as reluctance in this concession.

To them it seemed well-nigh incredible that any nation should be their superiors in any department pertaining to the practice of war.

They could not bring themselves fully to understand it.