The introduction to the Somme was a rude awakening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying for France With the American escadrille at Verdun] Reference

The Marne, the Meuse, and the Somme are the Rivers of Valour.    From Wordnik.com.  [An African Adventure] Reference

A fortified farm called Somme had been captured, and that was about all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference

The Somme is the first ship of the French naval task force to undergo maintenance and repair in Simon's Town.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The battle of the Somme was the most favorable for solitary airplanes, or airplanes coupled like hunting-dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air] Reference

The third great object of the allied operations on the Somme was the wearing down of the enemy's powers of resistance.    From Wordnik.com.  [World's War Events, Vol. II] Reference

I think that Brigadier should be given the General Sir Douglas Haig Som (m) e Success Medal. first day on the Somme was a failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [rabble.ca - News for the rest of us] Reference

S, the mud and blood of Ypres or the Somme were the last they had seen of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once upon a life: Andrew O'Hagan] Reference

Some of the chapters of Lorens's "Somme" were adapted by Chaucer in his Parson's tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Subtitle Somme and Ancre, 1916.    From Wordnik.com.  [manybooks.net] Reference

Rattlesnake Remedy is giving away a download of their song, "Somme".    From Wordnik.com.  [www.hardrockhideout.com] Reference

Then came the move to the Somme and the July of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919] Reference

Soon they were caught in the current of the Somme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts on the Trail] Reference

Somme, the English came in view of the French army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from English History] Reference

That is how "C" Co. relieved the 14th Battalion on the Somme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette] Reference

Divisional exercises at Baizieux in preparation for the Somme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference

Second Battle of the Somme (March 21-April 11, 1918) 20, 34, 43.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference

You'd have to go back to the Somme to find a comparable body count.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knight and Day] Reference

Somme by the 32nd Division, which had been attached temporarily to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919] Reference

Somme, could be reinforced under cover from the back slopes of the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of the 6th Division Aug. 1914-March 1919] Reference

The Battalion on 1st June, 1917, left the Fourth Army and the Somme area.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference

The pitch looks a little less like the Somme-like surface that it did last season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea 1-3 Manchester United – as it happened] Reference

September, 1914, and the French Armies of the Somme during the advance in July, 1916.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference

Back of the Somme, a prominent West Country Sportsman shouted a greeting to me from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919] Reference

At Edwin Lutyens's Memorial to the Missing of the Somme in France, you walk across a serene grassy plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art Of Honoring The Dead] Reference

Somme to the Scheldt, burrowing through hillsides with tunnels, and bridging gaps and valleys with viaducts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

The division of spoils is supposed to be neat and equable: the Somme was fought in verse, Dunkirk abandoned in prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bomber County by Daniel Swift] Reference

We all knew that we were going to the Somme to take part in that big show and we were very anxious to get down upon them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette] Reference

On March 29 the greater part of the British front south of the Somme was held by Carey's Force, assisted by the 1st Cavalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference

On March 28 our line from Marcelcave to the Somme was manned by Carey's Force, with the 1st Cavalry Division in close support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918] Reference