1 The Troop met twice a week in Jonesboro to drill and to pray for the war to begin.
2 She sank down on one of the little stools behind the counter of the booth and looked up and down the long hall which, until this afternoon, had been a bare and ugly drill room.
3 There were so many uniforms in the crowd--so many uniforms on so many men whom Scarlett knew, men she had met on hospital cots, on the streets, at the drill ground.
4 For a few minutes they went through a brisk drill that brought perspiration to their foreheads and cheers and applause from the audience.
5 I can drill a dime at fifty yards.
6 It was excellent drill for their memories, a harmless amusement, and employed many hours which otherwise would have been idle, lonely, or spent in less profitable society.
7 While I dress, do you drill her, Nan, in the management of her skirt and those French heels, or she will trip herself up.
8 If you keep doing it every day as regularly as soldiers go through drill we shall see what will happen and find out if the experiment succeeds.
9 A blue-bottle had settled on the cake and stabbed its yellow rock with its short drill.
10 One cut with a hatchet, and there results a nose; another such cut with a hatchet, and there materialises a pair of lips; two thrusts with a drill, and there issues a pair of eyes.
11 They had sorely missed the excitement of the drills while away, and they counted education well lost if only they could ride and yell and shoot off rifles in the company of their friends.
12 A sailor takes a fancy to wear shark-bone ear-rings: the carpenter drills his ears.
13 The ladies were making uniforms, knitting socks and rolling bandages, and the men were drilling and shooting.
14 The two with the hammer and the crowbar were drilling a hole near the base of the windmill.
15 Also, he was drilled and drilled and reviewed, and drilled and drilled and reviewed.