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Example sentences for "large army"

  • The energetic yet miserable man fled to the banks of the Volga, where he formed a large army of the ferocious Petchénègues, exciting their cupidity with promises of boundless pillage.

  • The tzar immediately commenced raising a large army, reinforced his garrisons, and sent a secret envoy to Tauride, to excite the Crimean Tartars to invade Poland on the south-east while Russia should make an assault from the north.

  • The regent, Oleg, taking with him the young prince Igor, immediately set out with a large army on a career of conquest.

  • These energetic men rapidly extended their territories, raised a large army, which was thoroughly drilled in all the science of Norman warfare, and then audaciously declared war against Greece and attempted its subjugation.

  • An attempt to land a large army on the English coast was soon to become a fixed idea in Bonaparte's mind; but then he used his armaments to disquiet the British Government.

  • Would you leave upon the throne of Spain a prince who will not be able to preserve himself from the yoke of the English, so that your Majesty will have constantly to maintain a large army in Spain?

  • In 1469, after collecting a large army, Ivan halted and began negotiating.

  • Gathering a large army, Vladimir marched to the Crimea, where stood the rich and powerful Greek city of Kherson.

  • He then collected a large army, and prepared to make war upon Genghis Khan.

  • This was a large army, though much smaller than that of Genghis Khan.

  • On the first of April Lee had a large army, but suddenly he had been overwhelmed.

  • He had a large army at Mumfordville and other points.

  • Far off to the southeast I see a hazy cloud, and columns of smoke, indicating the presence of a large army.

  • Animated by republican sentiments, the negroes raised a large army under a former slave, Toussaint l'Ouverture.

  • Lafayette with a large army of French and Americans was already blocking the neck of the peninsula.

  • After this shameful rout, called "the race of Castlebar," Cornwallis took the command in person at the head of a large army, and reached the neighbourhood of Castlebar on September 4.

  • Even after enlisting a large army consisting of the four kinds of forces, thou shouldst, O Yudhishthira, first behave peacefully.

  • A large army, consisting of even brave soldiers, is like a large herd of Ruru deer.

  • Vaisampayana continued, "Virata, that owner of a large army, remained ignorant of the son of Pandu who was thus described unto him by Uttara, and who was living in the palace in disguise.

  • And Virata, the king of the Matsyas owning a large army, enquired after Uttara, saying, 'Where hath Uttara gone?

  • And it was thus that Virata, the king of the Matsyas, owning a large army, quickly ordered out a large division consisting of four kinds of troops.

  • And having again and again embraced Yudhishthira and Bhima and the sons of Madri, and smelt their heads, Virata, that owner of a large army, was not satiated with gazing at them.

  • They therefore collected a large army, and forced Demetrius to stop and fight them all at Ip´sus, in Asia Minor.

  • When Eteocles heard that seven kings were coming with a large army to make him give up the throne of Thebes, he made up his mind to fight hard to keep it.

  • Von Hindenburg had with him a large army.

  • By October, Turkey was able to gather a large army.

  • He had retreated north, and then, by means of his railways, was gathering a large army at Thorn.

  • General Jackson was now between the large army of General Pope and Washington City, without having encountered any considerable force.

  • The impostor, assuming the name and title of the deceased prince, speedily found himself, through the assistance of the allied sovereigns and the favour of the Roman senate, at the head of a large army, with which he invaded Syria.

  • At last a Lithuanian Jew was selected by the insurgents, who, aided by the Poles, advanced into Russia at the head of a large army.

  • With the loans obtained from his allies, and by means of extortion, Balas was enabled to gather a large army of mercenary soldiers together, with which to give battle to the Syrian monarch.

  • Cavalry, under an energetic commander, are the eyes and ears of a large army, especially when it is on an active campaign against a vigilant enemy.

  • Turning more directly to the military situation on Lincoln's inauguration, we find Major Anderson holding Sumter, but practically in a state of siege, the Confederate authorities having assembled a large army at Charleston under Beauregard.

  • A feature of it was a large spring near its centre which furnished an abundant supply of water for the men and animals of a large army.

  • The corps organization of the Confederate Army, in addition to the division, gave more general officers and greater compactness in the handling of a large army.

  • When a large army of Germans entered Gaul, he defeated it and drove it back across the Rhine.

  • The Roman generals, with a large army, in making their way into the Samnite country attempted to march through a narrow gorge which broadened out into a plain and then was closed again at the farther end by another gorge.

  • They sent a large army to stop the invaders, but in the battle, which was fought only twelve miles from Rome, this army was destroyed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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