They had charged through woods against well-constructed fieldworks and in the teeth of destructive artillery fire, and had captured the works again and again.
Hancock charged next with five thousand men and was driven back with a loss of two thousand or more.
Bijli Pershaud drew off and charged again, striking the hunted elephant on the shoulder, and running beside him, charged him heavily again and again, until the poor driven beast dropped his trunk and uttered a pitiable cry.
I might haul Bimbashi's head round till it was under my knee, and he was looking astern, and still he charged onwards.
The First Sea Lord wascharged with the duty of preparation and organisation for war.
The Imperial Maritime Customs was charged with the duty of collecting Custom House dues, which were hypothecated to secure the external indebtedness of China.
Jung swung his trunk and dealt the hunted elephant a blow on the head, then charged him in the flank with a resounding impact, drew back and charged the reeling beast from behind.
That in order to obtain such plans of campaign, there should be created a new department charged with the duty of drawing them up.
In other words, so far as numbers and composition were concerned, the Mediterranean Fleet was incapable of carrying into execution the duties with which it must be charged in {464} the event of war.
Fence after fence was charged and cleared by them locked together, and it was not until Nightwalker was beaten, just before the last fence, they separated.
Almost single-handed, he chargedthe guns, receiving the wound resulting in the loss of his arm.
The First Sea Lord was indeed charged with the duties of organisation for war and the preparation of plans of campaign; but no one man could by any possibility accomplish so vast and so complex a task.
Sir Jung Bahadur sat on his horse and cursed the elephant; who, after hearkening attentively for a few minutes, suddenly charged the horsemen.
I have never ceased to advocate as a matter of elementary justice such an increase of the pay of officers and men as should bear some proportion to the responsibilities with which they are charged and the duties which they fulfil.
Those men are chargedwith rioting; they will be brought before the magistrate, and it is out of my power to interfere with the course of justice.
Commissioner Johnson now comes in and says, M`Gregorius is not charged with being without a licence, but with assaulting the trooper Lord--ridiculous!
In the dead of the night after the burning of the Eureka Hotel, three men had been taken into custody, charged with riot, and subsequently committed to take their trial in Melbourne.
The following morning, Johannes M`Gregorius is chargedwith being on the gold-fields without a licence.
Whether the object which is said to have appeared manifested its intentions to the child; whether she has been charged to communicate them, and to whom; and what were the said intentions or demands.
The English seem to have taken their war-cry from the old dukes of Aquitaine who charged to the sound of "St. George for the puissant duke.
Those who are initiated into the arts are alone charged with teaching others to read.
England, as did the politicians of France opposed to the Ligue, charged the church with being hostile to monarchy and the divine right of kings.
The people, cruelly harassed by the persecuting measures of the administration, turned with anxiety toward the authority charged by God with the conduct and defence of the faithful.
The great thinker, fulfilling his duties as head of a family with singular success, charged with the burden of new thoughts and observations, slowly perfecting his life work, had neither time nor inclination for controversy.
That shadowy path of light, with its dancing dust-motes, was it indeedcharged with Fate--indeed the augury of Love or Darkness?
And its breath was still hot and charged with heavy odour, for no dew was falling.
He however charged an exorbitant rate for weaving.
This ginned cotton was then cleaned by a pinjari who charged at the rate of one anna per pound and earned about 8 as.
Saraladevi has now been charged by these ladies to open a shop where they could buy Swadeshi goods.
He prepared nine and a half yards of cloth and charged Rs.
The writer pleads for a reduction in the prices charged by mill-owners for their manufactures.
The devoted patriots who charged with Breckenridge.
The Eleventh Cavalry charged the battery in front of them, this gallant boy with his apron flag riding side by side with those who led the charge.
If the electricity with which any conducting body is charged be suddenly disturbed, electrical waves are generated which travel outwards in all directions with the velocity of light.
You are encouraging my daughter to kill herself," the older woman charged Farrel.
And it was your purpose to aid in the consummation of this monstrous ambition," he charged bluntly.
Don Mike joined with him and the charged atmosphere cleared instantly.
It is in the breasts of these good men, who are charged by my brave wife to have me in their care.
One small body of Lancers mistook an almost precipitous ravine for the bridle-path, and charged down it at a gallop; those who were not killed in the descent rushing headlong into the midst of an armed force of Basuto at the bottom.
Whilst young Lascases was talking with some young ladies, the officer came, and, with extreme pain at being charged with so disagreeable a commission, declared that your orders were not to lose sight of him.
Beaume and his associates were apprehended, and charged with treason, for asserting that George the Third of England was King of France!
Our ministers are charged with the execution of the present decree.
Her majesty called them to her, and joined their hands over her body, (one standing on each side of the couch) and charged Hyronemus to be kind to Brunette.
But to the onlooker, they are all figures in a great design--woven into the terrible tapestry of war, and charged with a meaning that we of this actual generation shall never more than dimly see or understand.
He is once more charged with signalling from the church to the French Army.
He was dragged out of bed, and told that he was charged with making signals to the French Army from his church tower, and so causing the defeat of the Germans.
His new master had been charged to break him down--even to starve him down.
Several persons who had been present during the examination, and who were satisfied that Harry was innocent of the crime chargedupon him, interfered to save him from the consequences of the squire's wrath.
The Court of Requests may justly be charged with weakness, and what court may not?
Perhaps I shall not be charged with prolixity, that unpardonable sin against the reader, when it is considered, that three thousand years are deposited in the compass of one hundred and forty little pages.
We could not readily accede to a line of strangers, in preference to our ancient race of kings, though loudly charged with oppression.
He married three wives, all which he is charged with sending to the grave by untimely deaths; one of them, to open a passage to the Queen's bed, to which he aspired.
It is curious to find no less a person than Sir Francis Drake charged with having been befriended by the devil; and the many marvellous stories current respecting him still linger among the Devonshire peasantry.
And just as the wedding was about to be solemnised, he hastily charged one of his big guns and discharged a ball.
Early in this period a new impetus was given to organized labor by the historic decision of Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts in a case * brought against seven bootmakers charged with conspiracy.
Rumors of pernicious intermeddling by the Democratic and Republican politicians were afloat, and it was charged that the Pennsylvania delegates had come on passes issued by the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
These arecharged with a mixture of known quantities of nitre and charcoal, or any other mixture capable of deflagration, reduced to an impalpable powder, and formed into a paste with a moderate quantity of water.
Well, when Booking went up to have his exercise corrected, Rose smelt that he had been smoking, and charged him with it.
Goods come into the country at a slight duty, compared to that payable on the coast, five hundred dollars only (whatever may be the contents) being charged upon each waggon; and it is this privilege which supports the trade.
I now put myself at their head and charged the Mexicans' square in front, while the Shoshones did the same on the left, and the Apaches on the right.
Du Maurier, being especially but secretly charged to prevent the return of Francis Aerssens to Paris, incurred of course the enmity of that personage and of the French grandees who ostentatiously protected him.
The air seemed charged with an irresistible electrical force.
The pup, liberated from his kettle, and confident that Toby was somehow to blame for this melee, charged rashly at him.
