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Example sentences for "this battle"

  • Then said he, A boon, Cid Don Rodrigo; I have sung mass to you this morning: let me have the giving the first wounds in this battle!

  • I beseech you remain with me, and go not to this battle, for there is reason enough why you should be excused, and not break the oath which you made unto my father.

  • If we should wish to tell you how every one behaved himself in this battle, it is a thing which could not be done, for all did so well that no man can relate their feats.

  • In this battle, the royalists lost about two hundred men, while only seven were slain on the side of the victors.

  • Although the Promaucians had sustained a heavy loss in this battle, they courageously encamped within sight of the Spaniards, determined to renew the fight next morning.

  • As pointed out in the introduction the Cavalier's account of the disposition of forces in this battle is inaccurate.

  • I had the good fortune to receive no hurt in this battle, excepting a small scratch on the side of my neck by the push of a pike; but my friend received a very dangerous wound when the battle was as good as over.

  • Ye say well, said the king; and if ye will do this battle I shall make you knight.

  • But for I promised to do this battle, said Accolon, to the uttermost, and never to be recreant while I lived, therefore shall I never yield me with my mouth, but God do with my body what he will.

  • Sir said Sir Lamorak, for your renown and name I will that ye have the worship of this battle, and therefore I will yield me unto you.

  • Such were the consequences of this battle.

  • Here began an acquaintance with the hero of this battle, that ripened into a friendship which ended only with his death.

  • Indecisive as this battle was, it is ever to be memorable as, on its issue, President Lincoln kept a promise to "himself and his Maker.

  • Lord Howe, referring afterwards to this battle, said that the Americans did not stand up and fight like the regulars, suggesting that thereafter the Colonial army should arrange itself in the following manner before a battle!

  • Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, fought bravely with the Americans in this battle, twice having his name shot from under him.

  • Whether the Union troops were surprised or not at this battle, we cannot here pause to discuss.

  • In this battle he was ordered in charge of a Sergeant, with instructions that he be carried in battle at the point of the bayonet.

  • This Battle of Chancellorsville certainly had its many sides, with its rapid marching, changing of positions, and generalship of the highest order.

  • It is recalled just here that in this battle an officer, who had escaped being wounded up to that time, was painfully wounded.

  • By Colonel Rice's prudence at this battle in ordering a retreat to a more sheltered position, the battalion was saved from utter destruction, but suffering himself almost a fatal wound.

  • The description of this battle I omit, referring again to Thiers, confining myself to give some figures.

  • For the description of this battle I desire to refer to Thiers' great work.

  • But in this battle Philometor's horse was frightened by the braying of an elephant, and threw the king into the ranks of the enemy, and he was taken up covered with wounds.

  • As for me, I endure not to look upon this covenant or this battle.

  • The French impute the loss of this battle to the misconduct of Villeroy, who, it must be owned, made a most wretched disposition.

  • Among the officers who were engaged in this battle, old general d'Auverquerque and the duke of Argyle distinguished themselves by the most extraordinary valour and activity.

  • The emperor perceiving that the event of this battle had no effect in retarding the treaty, thought proper to make use of the armistice, and continue the negotiation after the forementioned treaties had been signed.

  • Subsequently to this battle, they were joined by the Sacs, who having become involved in a war with the Iroquois or Six Nations, were also driven to the westward.

  • In this battle Py-e-sa, the father of Black Hawk was killed.

  • The brief, but official account of this battle is given by the commanding general, in these words.

  • They fought in this battle, as if there were no mean between death and victory.

  • The victory in this battle was as doubtful as in all the actions fought during the present war.

  • All we can say with certainty of this battle is, that both sides boasted of the victory; and we may thence infer, that the event was not decisive.

  • To show how completely all the British projects were known, a curious incident of this battle may be quoted.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    candidate for; hand knowledge; small doses; this campaign; this colony; this country; this fact; this family; this fellow; this history; this nature; this our; this power; this proposition; this province; this region; this road; this second; this singular; this species; this stage; this that; this theory; this they; this thing; this unexpected