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Example sentences for "small band"

  • Thus a great and rich empire was secured to Spain, through the almost incredible efforts of a single man at the head of a small band of adventurers.

  • At length, however, Captain Mosely got within the fort, with a small band of men.

  • Don Sebastian collected round him all the fighting men left, and formed them into a small band--for the canister and bullets had made frightful ravages in the ranks of the insurgents--and placed himself at their head.

  • On the other hand, again, as the secret of the discovery of the plot remains with a small band of confidential agents of the authorities, the latter do not know at first whom to trust, or whom to reckon on.

  • There was only a small band of the robbers, with Red-Hand at their head.

  • Many a small band of brave trappers have sustained the attack of a whole Indian tribe; and though half of their number may have fallen, the others lived to relate the perilous adventure.

  • There was but a small band of them; and, as the place was near a large town, they had reason to fear pursuit.

  • He was grandson of that gallant leader, who, with a small band of only forty families, ventured three hundred miles through the heart of the "bloody ground" and founded Nashville upon the bold bluffs of an almost unknown river!

  • Canoes he had not, but strong swimmers he had; and it is a fine tribute to their daring that, on a dark and gloomy night, a small band of these undertook to swim off to one of the Horowhenua pas and attack its sleeping inhabitants.

  • He beckoned to his mounted men and to a small band who, meanwhile, had reached the ditch on foot, to follow him to the left of the gate, where rose a huge stone.

  • Soon I saw a small band of mounted men dash straight to Suomar's dwelling.

  • During that last night's camp a small band of witch-doctors stopped to talk to Tuys.

  • Not long after we reached our camp several indunas and a small band of warriors called on Tuys.

  • While she spoke we saw a small band of warriors swiftly running up the trail ahead.

  • At some distance to the south I could see a small band of rancheros watching the movements of our party.

  • A small band of prairie Chippewa Indians, who accompanied this party, visited our camp during the evening, and entertained us with one of their national dances.

  • Having proceeded about four miles, a small band of buffalo started off ahead of us.

  • I agreed to his suggestion; and, soon after the morning meal had been prepared, I heard the arrival of the courier himself, and learned that he had passed a small band of horse, whether troops of Lossac or not he could not tell.

  • We were about ready to continue our journey when I discovered a small band of Indians coming up the trail.

  • That afternoon about two o'clock I saw a small band of Indians coming directly towards us.

  • As soon as he reported this to me, I went with him to the top of a high ridge where we could see all over the country, and sure enough, there was a small band of Indians some two or three miles south of our trail.

  • We soon came in sight of the lake; looking to the right I saw a small band of squaws building a fire.

  • Since Romulus, with a small band of shepherds and outlaws, fortified himself on the hills near the Tyber, ten centuries had already elapsed.

  • In the course of this hunting expedition, a small band of ten lodges separated from the main body in search of better pasturage for their horses.

  • It is perhaps one of the few relics we have of that time, when a pure religion was planted by a small band of mendicants, who had neither shoes upon their feet, nor money in their scrips.

  • But did not a small band of early Christians try this share and share alike principle?

  • There he joins a small band of hunters, and is successful both as digger and trader.

  • A small band of white men might escape under such conditions as it would be possible for them to avoid detection, but not for Indians of the kind, as their approach would be a signal to begin shooting.

  • In fact he became so anxious that they should overtake him that he sent a small band of warriors back to meet them to make inquiries as to the reason of their following him.

  • Two weeks later I was out on a scouting tour when I saw a small band of Indians coming out of Black canyon and making their way westward.

  • The first day after striking the Humboldt, three of my men and I late in the afternoon, ran on to a small band of Utes, eleven in number.

  • In the forenoon I saw a small band of the savages, but they were a long way off and were traveling in the same direction we were.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    eyes narrowed; mon vieux; small area; small army; small block; small bottle; small building; small bulb; small chance; small clump; small degree; small figure; small fishes; small fraction; small fragment; small mammals; small onions; small plain; small post; small share; small steamer; small teaspoonful; small tribe; small tube; small wares; small work