What is "toul"

Usage examples of "toul".

He had learned at least that much of German warfare and German honor, even in the quiet Toul sector.

Tom Slade had brought in, was none other than the famous Major Johann Slauberstrauffn von Piffinhoeffer, excitement ran high in the neighborhood, and the towheaded young dispatch-rider from the Toul sector was hardly less of a celebrity than the terrible Prussian himself.

Gaul as they advanced west along the Roman road from Strasbourg to Toul, things that sounded nothing like the Kai Sarnac remembered.

Her dispositions assumed an attack in Lorraine, and her northern fortifications round Lille, Maubeuge, and Hirson were feeble compared with those of Belfort, Toul, and Verdun.

Jeannette alone, without any one else perceiving it, a mystery was being played, a thousand times richer and finer than those which on feast days were acted on platforms, in towns like Toul and Nancy.

She was in Toul, which was a two hour journey, and Marcel, the boy who had driven her there, had agreed to take her.

Hyarke in Toul tonight, now that I think of it, and I might have someone here who could take you, if I catch him before he goes off duty.

Well, Langlais had been a Breton peasant, Bigeard son of a Toul railwayman, and the nobleman had been Christian Marie Ferdinand de la Croix de Castries, of a family of dukes, great seigneurs, marshals of France.

Strasburg and Toul was received by the Government here this morning, and has just been made public.

King of France, as promptly as possible, takes possession of the towns of Toul, Metz, and Verdun, where the German language has never been used.

So that the Germans themselves put on the same line the towns of Metz, Toul, and Verdun, and recognized that the town of Metz was not German.

Seicheprey by the Twenty-sixth on April 20, in the Toul sector, but none had participated in action as a unit.

At his request the First Division was transferred from the Toul sector to a position in reserve at Chaumont en Vexin.

France, along the frontier where France, Switzerland and Germany meet, there are the first-class fortresses of Belfort, Epinal, Toul and Verdun in the first line, reinforced by Besancon, Dijon, Langres, Rheims, La Fere and Maubeuge in the second line, with smaller fortifications close to the German frontier at Remirement, Luneville, Nancy and other points.

American troops on the Tuscania were part of the forces being hurried to France to hold the Germans in check, and at the time American troops were holding a sector with the French in Lorraine, northwest of Toul, while American artillery were supporting the French in Champagne.