1 There was something perilous in his position.
2 He came gradually back to a position from which he could regard himself.
3 His lower jaw hung down as if lacking strength to assume its normal position.
4 From a position in the rear of the grove a battery was throwing shells over it.
5 A battery changing position at a frantic gallop scattered the stragglers right and left.
6 The rifle was lowered to a position of caution and the loud soldier came slowly forward.
7 The sore joints of the regiment creaked as it painfully floundered into position to repulse.
8 A battery had trundled into position in the rear and was thoughtfully shelling the distance.
9 He turned then and, pausing with his rifle thrown half into position, looked at the blue line of his comrades.
10 He had taken up a first position behind the little tree, with a direct determination to hold it against the world.
11 When the regiment was aligned in another position each man's regard for his safety caused another line of small intrenchments.
12 Sometimes he would achieve a position half erect, battle with the air for a moment, and then fall again, grabbing at the grass.
13 He had been overturned and crushed by their lack of sense in holding the position, when intelligent deliberation would have convinced them that it was impossible.
14 He was engaged in knotting it about his throat with exquisite attention to its position, when the cry was repeated up and down the line in a muffled roar of sound.
15 Before he was ready to begin--before he had announced to himself that he was about to fight--he threw the obedient well-balanced rifle into position and fired a first wild shot.
16 His body lay stretched out in the position of a tired man resting, but upon his face there was an astonished and sorrowful look, as if he thought some friend had done him an ill turn.
17 Occasionally, in this low-arched hall, a soldier would arouse and turn his body to a new position, the experience of his sleep having taught him of uneven and objectionable places upon the ground under him.
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