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Example sentences for "recross"

Lexicographically close words:
recreations; recreative; recriminate; recrimination; recriminations; recrossed; recrosses; recrossing; recrudescence; recruit
  1. Battle of Maesia, in which Constantine defeated the Goths under Alaric, and compelled them to recross the Danube.

  2. Being in an unfit state to receive them, with few arms and no ammunition, my brother determined to recross the frontier.

  3. The 300 who surrendered were allowed to recross the frontier.

  4. I think you would rather recross the creek and join your command than go ahead to where I am to take you.

  5. As secretly as I can, I'll recross the creek and join the men in the clearing.

  6. And yet time has brought these apparently tangled orbits into such nice adjustment that the little bodies can continue to cross and recross each other’s paths with no danger of interference from each other.

  7. The new-comers were accordingly directed to recross the river, and it was in this way that the camp near Council Bluffs in 1848 secured its principal population.

  8. If we are overpowered, then recross the river and defend yourselves and your property.

  9. The French army, exhausted by this bloody engagement, was still farther weakened by the departure of the Hessians, and the Bavarians being reinforced by the Archduke Leopold, Turenne was again obliged hastily to recross the Rhine.

  10. Our way was now open; when darkness set in we could recross the Tarka.

  11. All we could do was to recross the river, and that had to take place in a shower of bullets.

  12. Over the gap by which we were about to recross into the head of Vallesinella shot up an astonishing dolomite, a facsimile of a Rhine castle, with a tall slender turret, perhaps 300 feet high, at one corner.

  13. Halfway up the barrier the path splits, and the traveller must either continue to climb steeply and afterwards traverse at a level the higher slopes, or recross the stream and remain in the valley.

  14. Skirt Val Brenta side of some rocks, then recross into head of the Vallesinella; ascend glacier seen among the cliffs right.

  15. Their course lay almost parallel with the Loire in the direction of Beaupreau; and Tignonville began to fear that Count Hannibal intended to recross the river at Nantes, where the only bridge below Angers spanned the stream.

  16. Tired of the Court at Blois, and the atmosphere of intrigue and treachery which pervaded it, and with which I hoped I had now done, I was still at a loss to see how I could recross the Loire in face of the Vicomte de Turenne's enmity.

  17. Or presently he will double back and recross the Loire.

  18. After all, only four or five could be obtained, and these so small that it would be necessary to cross and recross the stream many times to effect the object.

  19. The Marseillese were three thousand six hundred men; they had a heavier and more numerous artillery, and yet they have been obliged to recross the Durance.

  20. He has four hours the start of me now, and 'twill be nearly five before my men can get here; but I must reach him before he attempts to recross the Tennessee.

  21. But to fight two battles in one day, to disappear completely from Fremont's ken, and to recross the rivers before he had time to seize the bridge, were manoeuvres of the utmost delicacy, and needed most careful preparation.

  22. Hitherto, except in permitting Early to recross the river, he had made no mistake, and he had gained time.

  23. If Jackson could hold the bridge at Port Republic, and also prevent Fremont reaching the bluffs, he could recross when he had done with Shields, and fight Fremont without fear of interruption.

  24. Burnside, indeed, giving way to the remonstrances of his subordinates, had abandoned all idea of further aggressive action, and unless Lee should move forward, had determined to recross the Potomac.

  25. At a very early hour in the morning Hooker, anticipating a vigorous attack, had ordered the First Army Corps, which had hitherto been acting with Sedgwick below Fredericksburg, to recross the Rappahannock and march to Chancellorsville.

  26. He mounted his horse, hurried to recross the river, and rather than wait until an obstructed bridge could be cleared, was passed from hand to hand over the heads of the crowd.

  27. Unpleasant as it is, we welcome its peltings, hoping that the storm will raise the Potomac above the fording mark, and thus give Meade an opportunity to attack Lee before he has time to recross the river into Virginia.

  28. Each command acted nobly, and the Yankees were forced, after a fight of nearly twelve hours, to recross the river with great losses.

  29. No alternative seemed now left to the Army of the Potomac but to beat a retreat and recross the river.

  30. Most reluctantly the general gave the order to recross the Ganges, but before doing so gave battle to a body of troops entrenched in his rear, and caused them to retreat.

  31. Then the general chose out some men who were specially fitted to manage the elephants, and bade them recross the river immediately, giving them exact directions what they were to do when they were once more on the right bank.

  32. At dark, began to recross the North Anna River at Quarles' Mills.

  33. Early in the morning of the 27th, we recross the river and at 2.

  34. We knew the thieves were just across the river, so we hung around a few days, in the hope of catching them, for if they should recross into Texas they were our meat.

  35. We lost little time saddling up, only taking five days' rations with us, for they were certain to recross the river before that time in case we failed to intercept them.

  36. One night they set out unusually early, the chief saying that they would recross the river before morning, so that if the ransom was not satisfactory, the execution might take place at once.

  37. Appearances had been saved; Charlemagne could say, and even perhaps believe, that he had pushed his conquests as far as the Ebro; he decided on retreat, and all the army was set in motion to recross the Pyrenees.

  38. After a course of plundering in Aquitania or in Provence, the Arabs of Spain and of Africa were eager to recross the Pyrenees or the Mediterranean, and regain their own lovely climate, and their life of easefulness that never palled.

  39. It was now evident that the second attempt to relieve Ladysmith had failed, and that the army would have to recross the Tugela.

  40. Not much opportunity for looking at the spectacle was afforded, since we received an order to recross Venter's Spruit and bivouac.


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