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1. In the last skirmish that I had with them I would venture to say that we thinned their numbers a little but there are still close to two hundred of them
2. Of course, being a military man meant there was always the chance of death in a skirmish with the enemy
3. When the art of war, too, has gradually grown up to be a very intricate and complicated science; when the event of war ceases to be determined, as in the first ages of society, by a single irregular skirmish or battle ; but when the contest is generally spun out through several different campaigns, each of which lasts during the greater part of the year; it becomes universally necessary that the public should maintain those who serve the public in war, at least while they are employed in that service
4. I faced to my front again and I could see a skirmish line of about thirty Turks advancing towards the village and us leading them in front was a fat Officer wearing a red fez on his head
5. ” We climbed down from the roofs and formed a skirmish line before in front of the houses then we marched out of the village and onto the killing field where the enemy had come to grief
6. “Come on form the skirmish line again you heard the Officer look lively let’s get over to the tree line
7. Very quickly, things changed—instead of the pirates very coolly taunting the prisoners, now there was a violent skirmish onboard, and the storm was beginning to show its wrath
8. Colonels Wood and Roosevelt threw out their troops in skirmish order through the chapparal
9. I had collected several letters, when a light flickered toward the Cobre Road, and a distant skirmish fire was heard
10. A gory skirmish through the narrow corridors of the
11. Roosevelt began the most famed part of his career as a bored rich man playing at being soldier, a dilettante and warmonger with little understanding of war who greatly exaggerated his own role in a minor skirmish against an outgunned enemy of draftees in a failing empire
12. Roosevelt's part in it was a minor skirmish lasting a few hours and some weeks in the tropics
13. But this is just the latest skirmish in a very long war, and the stakes are higher than you can imagine
14. Only in retrospect had Keinalone learned what had become of the tribe who had slunk away after a leaderless skirmish
15. During the twenty-nine-month expedition there was one skirmish and one
16. Never in the pitched battle they wished for, but rather with hit-and-run, ambush, and skirmish always where and when they least expected it
17. She stared at him as her hands closed on ammunition for the coming skirmish
18. as they formed up for a skirmish
19. won this little skirmish, it was them
20. in astonishment at the brief skirmish
21. A skirmish was ensuing in the crowd
22. Unfortunately, Grace Schulte merely loathed Charly in return, and showed no hesitation to mount a skirmish under most circumstances
23. What indisputable facts have we? The police have made up their minds that the skirmish at my place was nothing more than a couple of disturbed thieves
24. When Jesus spoke of "rising on the third day," they seized upon this statement as signifying a sure triumph of the kingdom immediately following an unpleasant preliminary skirmish with the Jewish religious leaders
25. Based on her previous skirmish with the Taelroks, Xin estimated she could take out two, maybe three large ships before having to replenish her reactor
26. We have expended very little of our munitions in that skirmish
27. After that brief skirmish we apologized to each other then
28. Apparently, we'd had another skirmish
29. to get into another skirmish with you
30. thick layer of perspiration that had formed there during the skirmish
31. He was amazed at the damage such a fairly short skirmish could cause
32. mech assault skirmish and they were hoping
33. “That was just a skirmish,” the Princess said
34. skirmish is nothing compared to what’s coming
35. “You’ve won a skirmish,” the Doctor said
36. The skirmish was still going strong when he rushed towards his wife and picked her up by force and ran quickly towards his room
37. Joel continued to gaze at her, as he was drawn into his friends’ lively banter, but while he joined in on the humorous skirmish, his attention remained solely focused on the woman sitting next to him
38. opposite direction from the skirmish, panting noises reverberated from
39. Once they were dealt with, floating motionlessly in the water, it seemed like no one else from the Clan of Zalcan was bold enough to approach the skirmish
40. ‘The Shoulder Skirmish
41. Some months before, following a skirmish, new contingency plans had been drawn up
42. Their platoon had moved deeper into the forests south of Magadh after the skirmish with
43. time, but the skirmish on the trail to Dunradin, which had left him
44. e tracker had lost one of his men in the previous skirmish and
45. “I don’t mind about that, who cares about punches between friends?” He dropped his head and laughed, saying, “All the country is up, heard about the Pictish battle and the one with the Saxons, our little skirmish
46. Their haste was such that they ran wholesale over their own fleeing troops in an effort to join the battle and snatch victory out of a skirmish that could only be labeled as the most shameful of defeats on their part
47. I do! I fought every skirmish and war my son’s been at in my prayers for him
48. It was great to hear that he’d survived the skirmish, and she looked forward to seeing him
49. “Chevalier, we waited for you to give us a report, it's been too long since the end of this skirmish,” Elder
50. and limited funds and could not afford another skirmish
1. These newcomers were not at first allies with the Turanians, but skirmished with them as with the Hyborians; new drifts of eastern warriors bickered and fought, until all were united under a great chief, who came riding from the very shores of the eastern ocean
2. Accordingly she behaved as little like a primrose as possible, sitting in stony silence while he skirmished in the passage with Mrs
3. As almost always happens in such cases, Marius skirmished before giving battle, by way of proving himself
4. We cannot shelter behind it, and think to retire with honor when we have as yet only skirmished on the edges of the field
1. All they could do now was run - they had no more strength for skirmishes with all of the present enemies
2. There had been no battles, no notable skirmishes that he had heard of and surely would have as the acting commanding officer of the Rift
3. For the war in Skyrim had seemed a bloody stalemate for some time now, the respective forces of Tullius and Ulfric clashing in skirmishes and doing little to trade yielded ground
4. Although battles and skirmishes are still taking place around the world, the underlying reason is changing
5. We had a couple of skirmishes on the way back but the size of our mixed unit seemed to deter the Turks from any real attack and besides which we were returning to our start point
6. The trenches were now static and the fight now was relegated to small skirmishes although we gained more land from these than from either of the two big battles put together
7. The second was old bills, some legal papers dealing with the building itself and a few letters to and from attorneys regarding minor legal skirmishes with the local neighbors who objected to having a drinking establishment with scantily clad females in close proximity to their homes
8. But these fleeting skirmishes were as nothing compared to what came next
9. The animals grew worried and some skirmishes broke out between traditional adversaries
10. “Sometimes it was all-out war, and the rest was just long breaks between battles, full of minor skirmishes and covert destruction
11. “Since Zarkog abandoned his pursuit of you, he has sent occasional skirmishes against our population centers
12. Smaller battles, skirmishes, but still deadly
13. Over the years, both India and Pakistan have spent a lot of money and young soldiers’ blood in many mini and major skirmishes
14. And so, skirmishes and feuds, we were becoming more and more educated
15. I have received fresh reports of skirmishes between the Bengal Clan and the carnivorous Lykanthros Hordes
16. Skirmishes along the borders were incessant, affording the Cimmerian plenty of opportunities to demonstrate his ability at hand-to-hand fighting
17. They were mounts captured in skirmishes, wounded and healed or stolen off dead Border trash
18. The 6,000 kilometres journey to Vladivostok was frequently marred by violence, bloody skirmishes with newly formed Bolshevik guerrilla units, or Bolshevik sympathisers who tore out sections of the track --
19. They had done well together in training exercises and she had been successful in skirmishes with pirates, but nothing ever goes exactly as planned in a real battle
20. Even the veterans who had fought in skirmishes against pirates could not recall a battle involving this many ships and this many casualties
21. Concerned about leaks from damage suffered in previous skirmishes, she had had the foresight to put on her EVA suit when she first spotted the approaching ships and wore it as she engaged the pirate ship in battle
22. New tactics and techniques that first appeared in the mock skirmishes were incorporated into standard battle plans
23. In times of war or territorial skirmishes, humans are also
24. countless skirmishes have occurred
25. whole world! I know that we’ve had a few skirmishes, but that’s
26. Consider the late twentieth century skirmishes in Granada, Panama, the Falkland Islands and Somalia
27. Isolated instances of sniper fire and patrol skirmishes, plus the occasional mortar fire, however kept nerves raw, further exhausting the Marine defenders
28. He had probably seen so many similar skirmishes in his life that he had become immune to public displays of hostility, only flinching when bullets or blades were added into the equation
29. In the six months after the riots, there were several minor communal flare-ups across western UP—stone throwing, local skirmishes, fights over loudspeakers—and with every instance, the religious divide widened
30. wealth amidst the skirmishes of nature, and to always strengthen con-
31. He didn’t tell her of the skirmishes or how close he
32. have faced many more physical skirmishes in the past
33. They had only fought slight skirmishes through the years, but this was something else entirely
34. Still there might be small skirmishes
35. Skirmishes or not being along on this quest was still so very exciting!
36. of trespassers and participated in many border skirmishes
37. She and Amy had had many lively skirmishes in the course of their lives, for both had quick tempers and were apt to be violent when fairly roused
38. Jo and Fred had several skirmishes and once narrowly escaped high words
39. I did not mind their skirmishes: but Hareton was often obliged to seek the kitchen also, when the master wanted to have the house to himself; and though in the beginning she either left it at his approach, or quietly joined in my occupations, and shunned remarking or addressing him---and though he was always as sullen and silent as possible---after a while she changed her behaviour, and became incapable of letting him alone: talking at him; commenting on his stupidity and idleness; expressing her wonder how he could endure the life he lived---how he could sit a whole evening staring into the fire and dozing
40. He had been serving in India during the assassinations, skirmishes, and brutal British reprisals that came to be known as the War of Independence
41. I did not mind their skirmishes: but Hareton was often obliged to seek the kitchen also, when the master wanted to have the house to himself! and though in the beginning she either left it at his approach, or quietly joined in my occupations, and shunned remarking or addressing him—and though he was always as sullen and silent as possible—after a while, she changed her behaviour, and became incapable of letting him alone: talking at him; commenting on his stupidity and idleness; expressing her wonder how he could endure the life he lived—how he could sit a whole evening staring into the fire, and dozing
42. There, beneath that external silence, battles of giants, like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in Dante
43. As for the disdained and affronted wives, what culinary battlements did they rear up? What counterattacks ensued? And if small battles, or skirmishes, were fought, did victories follow?
44. All the rest was nothing but skirmishes
45. We have had some skirmishes, but we had never set eyes upon each other before
46. It is therefore essential to avoid big battles and endeavour to reduce the war to a series of petty skirmishes
47. In these sort of skirmishes the rebels generally got the better of us, as they had plenty of food and were capitally mounted
48. The boys, seeing I'd given him up, set on him and taunted him, shouting, ‘Wisp of tow, wisp of tow!’ And he had soon regular skirmishes with them, which I am very sorry for
1. In Frantzia, a revolt by the dukes of Orleans and Bretagne supported by the Ingalaterra king was defeated early on in 1488, but skirmishing continued for a few years
2. and saw the whites and blacks skirmishing around the flagpole
3. skirmishing over traditional dances of which 98 percent of the population
4. And so, during the time before the wedding, I went over to Caan and learned how to be a trainer and drill-master; I took some of his new boys under my care before we were rounded up by Lord Ambrosius and given orders to ride out, summer skirmishing
5. Most of our younger and less experienced warriors rode with Gareth, learning their craft through scouting and skirmishing in his unit
6. Simultaneously, a body of desperate ferrets, advancing through the kitchengarden, possessed themselves of the backyard and offices; while a company of skirmishing stoats who stuck at nothing occupied the conservatory and the billiard-room, and held the French windows opening on to the lawn
7. The attack came, there was fierce skirmishing and the Yankees were beaten back
8. At New Hope Church, fifteen miles farther along skirmishing, then to Cassville, then south of Cartersville
9. But before Scarlett could start the two on their homeward journey, news came that the Yankees had swung to the south and were skirmishing along the railroad between Atlanta and Jonesboro
10. General Sherman was trying the fourth side of the town again, fourth side of the town now, no skirmishing units or cavalry detachments but the massed striking again at the railroad at Jonesboro
11. That same night, Rostov was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front of Bagration’s detachment
12. ‘Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line
13. Simultaneously, a body of desperate ferrets, advancing through the kitchen-garden, possessed themselves of the backyard and offices; while a company of skirmishing stoats who stuck at nothing occupied the conservatory and the billiard-room, and held the French windows opening on to the lawn
14. He is always appearing in the skirmishing line, prancing up and down in front of the enemy or trying to worry them on the flanks, losing his temper, yelling himself hoarse with orders, wasting cartridges and ammunition, men and horses, for no reason whatever, and keeping all the troops under arms until late into the night
15. It will be as I said at the beginning of the campaign, it won’t be your skirmishing at Dürrenstein, or gunpowder at all, that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said Bilíbin quoting one of his own mots, releasing the wrinkles on his forehead, and pausing
16. That same night, Rostóv was with a platoon on skirmishing duty in front of Bagratión’s detachment
17. “Where am I? Oh yes, in the skirmishing line