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    Use "field of battle" in a sentence

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    field of battle


    1. ‘Perhaps in the field of battle, but not in a civilised


    2. As was custom, all combatants remained at the field of battle, awaiting the Death Guard's inspection


    3. This gave rise to the claim that they were forced to abandon their field guns on the field of battle which as you might know is a shameful thing in war and thoroughly exploited by their foes forever after


    4. We are somewhat solitary folk, and we did not have the concept of ‘military’ yet, and so our wars consisted of millions of single challenges, though they often took place simultaneously on the field of battle


    5. The best of soldiery lies in believing this and, on the field of battle, it has never let him down


    6. might encourage his men to advance on the field of battle; but he is never


    7. Once more he looked back at the field of battle


    8. His goal was to die as a martyr in a field of battle


    9. The day will come when we will need every able bodied officer on the field of battle, and those who testified against me today will not be there


    10. Cadet Solomon has done that both in the relative safety of the classroom and on the field of battle

    11. The second paraflare then died out, returning the field of battle to obscurity


    12. smoldering field of battle


    13. Soon I was destined to defend my honor on the field of battle


    14. The trigger-happy hero of Salisbury, decorated by Ian Smith for eliminating the first ANC contingent to have crossed over the Zambezi (at the time, South Africa’s de facto northern border) from Kongwa, took his own life in the depths of his despair at ending up as white trash in Capetown; a despair he tried to alleviate by joining the political wing of very same organisation whose soldiers he had met and admired as equals on the field of battle


    15. Moreover, their performance on the field of battle may be placed alongside and in many cases above their comrades in the regular Army


    16. numerous occasions and for the last time at the battle of Milvian Bridge just outside Rome, and Maxentius is reported to have died in the Tiber river while fleeing the field of battle


    17. He knew they were state of the art mini-cams with sound amplifiers so the viewers could also hear what was happening in the field of battle


    18. As they journeyed towards the field of battle, the Allies knew their enemy was growing desperate; attempting to throw more hurtles in their path and test the strength and power of the Silver Fleet


    19. Is this what you want the richest children to emulate? Watching close personal friends become enemies on the field of battle? And keeping rich children from helping poor children by sticking the false front, the false flag of charity onto the greediest most evil corporations in the world


    20. The great horns of the wall sounded out once more, which was the call for our retreat from the field of battle

    21. The field of battle was set and the trap sprung with the enemy caught in the middle


    22. They saluted as one and I left them with, “Godspeed my friends!” before I made my way towards the western side of the fortification line, watching the field of battle take shape as I did so


    23. It was possible that we had reduced the enemy force that would be coming against us by almost a third before we had ever met in the field of battle


    24. He quivered as he pointed at me with one bony finger his voice cracking with age, “Now! Now you bring back my cup of eternal youth! What good does she do me now! I see that you’re enjoying her for yourself wretched fool! You’ve stripped me of all my hard won possessions! Assoria was mine! You killed my babies! The army that would have defeated any army ever made on the field of battle, but no! You couldn’t play by the rules! You used technology against me to do what? Protect people little better than cattle long overdue for the slaughterhouse! You drained me of my last vestige of power! You’ve taken everything from me!”


    25. Two days later the duke told Don Quixote that in four days from that time his opponent would present himself on the field of battle armed as a knight, and would maintain that the damsel lied by half a beard, nay a whole beard, if she affirmed that he had given her a promise of marriage


    26. "Here, then, is one who can undeceive you," said Duncan; "I know the sound full well, for often have I heard it on the field of battle, and in situations which are frequent in a soldier's life


    27. he was such a bad man!" At this, turning down the clothes, and viewing the field of battle by the glimmer of a dying taper, he saw plainly my thighs, shift, and sheet, all stained with what he readily took for a virgin effusion, proceeding from his last half penetration: convinced, and transported at which, nothing could equal his joy and exultation


    28. For the first time in Safeholdian history, magazine-fed, bolt-action rifles came into action on a field of battle, and the result was horrendous


    29. Despite the massive effort to reequip the Mighty Host of God and the Archangels, over sixty thousand of its million infantry were still sling-armed, which meant they were the next best thing to useless on a modern field of battle


    30. The implications of that if the war lasted another year or so—especially without Mother Church finding some way to reverse her fortunes on the field of battle—were nothing the Grand Inquisitor wanted to contemplate, so he simply refused to do so

    31. In what wildest one could I have conceived the nature of the campaign which it should be my lot to report! Here then is my first despatch from a field of battle:


    32. The colonel would have wired earlier, but Charles, thinking his illness a trifling one, did not wish to thought he had won but also of his high hopes of honor and glory on the field of battle


    33. He believes that the horsemen slew and burned all upon the field of battle; but he does not know whether the Orcs were bringing any prisoners or not


    34. The wind had fallen and black clouds, merging with the powder smoke, hung low over the field of battle on the horizon


    35. In the village of Hosjeradek there were Russian troops retiring from the field of battle, who though still in some confusion were less disordered


    36. Some said the report that the Emperor was wounded was correct, others that it was not, and explained the false rumor that had spread by the fact that the Emperor’s carriage had really galloped from the field of battle with the pale and terrified Ober-Hofmarschal Count Tolstoy, who had ridden out to the battlefield with others in the Emperor’s suite


    37. I comfort myself and you with the hope that your son is alive, for otherwise he would have been mentioned among the officers found on the field of battle, a list of whom has been sent me under flag of


    38. Drawing himself up, he viewed the field of battle opening out before him from the hill, and with his whole soul followed the movement of the Uhlans


    39. They were all looking at the field of battle as he was, and, as it seemed to him, with the same feelings


    40. Pierre saw that there was a bridge in front of him and that soldiers were doing something on both sides of it and in the meadow, among the rows of new-mown hay which he had taken no notice of amid the smoke of the campfires the day before; but despite the incessant firing going on there he had no idea that this was the field of battle

    41. The marshals and generals, who were nearer to the field of battle but, like Napoleon, did not take part in the actual fighting and only occasionally went within musket range, made their own arrangements without asking Napoleon and issued orders where and in what direction to fire and where cavalry should gallop and infantry should run


    42. field of battle, and of those who stood around him, Kutuzov noticed an expression of extreme tension


    43. Though shells and bullets did not whistle over the road along which he was going, still on all sides there was what there had been on the field of battle


    44. Kutuzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information


    45. To strain the facts to fit the rules of history: to say that the field of battle at Borodino remained in the hands of the Russians, or that after Moscow there were other battles Napoleon’s army, is impossible


    46. Two hostile troops on a field of battle are two wrestlers


    47. Such a point of the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which is poured on them


    48. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of Groenendael and Boitsfort


    49. So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle


    50. He gazed with some intentness at the English barricades of the two highways,—two large abatis of trees, that on the road to Genappe above La Haie-Sainte, armed with two cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chasse's brigade


























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