However, the wire is cut two or three times a day by bullets and shell splinters, my linesman has a constant job.
"“Crumpsâ€Â, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went"
Louis Keene
But there was little love lost here between the civil and military element, and these were probably libels, for I have seldom seen a better drilled or disciplined set of men, although the hideous uniform of the American linesman is less suggestive of a soldier than of a railway guard.
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt
The whistle piped, a Claflin linesman stepped forward, swung a long leg and the battle was on.
"Left End Edwards"
Ralph Henry Barbour