What is "scene of action"

Usage examples of "scene of action".

One of them angels of mercy, it seems, went to the scene of action loaded with a flask of castor oil.

Or perhaps it was only that he expected to see her now in every scene of action.

She had been out on the roof, trying to make her way closer to the scene of action, and at the same time trying to compel her son to stay back on the balcony, to save himself.

They might well have a second sleeper at the scene of action as a cover.

But none of them would have willingly stayed away from the scene of action and Captain Jellico agreed to hire a Field guard as they left the ship in a body to try their luck.

Four of the party whose courage and presence of mind he had reason to trust were sent on at once on horseback to the supposed scene of action.

He had actually started to creep across the first buffer space separating him from the scene of action when he saw that the mate had fastened a set of lines to his harness and to the deck, and was almost as securely tied down as the mast he was working on.

In the mean while, Gelimer himself, ignorant of the event, and misguided by the windings of the hills, inadvertently passed the Roman army, and reached the scene of action where Ammatas had fallen.

The sense of shame, and the importunities of the Syrians, prevented the hasty departure from the scene of action.