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Example sentences for "press forward"

  • We have many of us internally something of the spirit expressed by the apostle: "Forgetting the things that are behind, we press forward to those that remain.

  • The mind of the enquiring man is engaged in a course of perpetual research; and ingenuousness prompts us never to be satisfied with the efforts that we have made, but to press forward.

  • They were not to pause to make spoil nor to take prisoners: they were to press forward, fighting valiantly, and granting no quarter.

  • The soldiers heard the uproar of the battle, the sound of trumpets, and the war-cries of the Moors, but tried in vain to press forward to the assistance of their companions.

  • Although considerable resistance was met with, the gallant division continued to press forward, the rebels steadily giving way.

  • Our Sixth corps was ordered to press forward to the relief of the beleaguered place; but before we had started the firing suddenly died away.

  • At a given signal, very early in the morning, General Warren with his strong force was to press forward on the right of the rebel line.

  • With this force Longstreet continued to press forward, and, piercing the Federal line, seemed about to inflict upon them a great disaster by seizing the commanding position occupied by the Federal left.

  • The Federal army failed to press forward as rapidly as it is now obvious it should have done.

  • General Lee, as soon as he was apprised of the accident, hastened to take personal command of the corps, and, as soon as order was restored, directed the line to press forward.

  • The Federal infantry, however, continued steadily to press forward, forcing back the cavalry, and on the 27th General Meade was in face of Mine Run.

  • Duty to press forward in the search for Truth, 223-u.

  • Truth, our duty to press forward in search of, 223-u.

  • Riding recklessly down a rocky slope he raised himself in his stirrups, and waving his cap in the direction of the retreating foe, shouted to his officers to "Press forward to the Potomac!

  • Grant, late in October, ordered Sherman with the Fifteenth Army Corps to press forward to the Tennessee River, cross at Bridgeport and push rapidly on to Chattanooga.

  • The mist still clung to the mountain in heavy folds early on the 25th, when Hooker was ordered to press forward on the road to Rossville, carry the pass, and operate on Bragg's left and rear.

  • To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.

  • But I bore it with Christian fortitude, determined to press forward to the mark of the prize.

  • But the ambition of a great, worldly idea was burning in my bosom, and I resolved to press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling.

  • As a society and as individuals, let us press forward to the mark of the prize--I beg pardon.

  • With the aid of these I had hoped that you would have been in a position to press forward.

  • June), and should expect them, reinforced from the northern wing if necessary, to press forward to Chanak and thus to cut off this enemy's sole remaining line of supply.

  • What is needed for each and all is to press forward, not to rest in the present, but to hasten to what lies beyond.

  • Under these circumstances nothing remained but blindly to press forward or to retrace his steps.

  • But De Soto, whose youthful energies were inspired by love and ambition, was eager to press forward.

  • The sight of the gold inspired all the Spaniards at San Miguel with the intense desire to press forward into a field which promised so rich a harvest.

  • There was nothing for the Spaniards to do but to press forward.


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