Evidently only those who had an important errand were allowed on the routes NATIONALS, thus kept clear for the transport of troops or ammunition.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
If the NATIONALS were veterans they were also dealing with veterans who were masters of the situation in their overwhelming force and their knowledge of the comparative insignificance of their opponents, whose numbers had been quite accurately estimated the day before.
"His Sombre Rivals"
E. P. Roe
And the deep meaning of it is to rob our fishing, under pretence of the NATIONALS.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore