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    incursion


    1. “Scather incursion, stay with Mistress Sera,” he shouted as he and Kai ran to the stairs


    2. It was the young warrior who had aided Rayne during the Scather incursion


    3. These soldiers were turned loose wherever there was in incursion


    4. It was the young man who had fought at Rayne’s side during the incursion, Tarak noted


    5. Yet to others it represented an incursion into their determination to remain masters of their houses and homes and other discomfited intrusiveness


    6. In the disorderly state of England under the Plantagenets, who governed it from about the middle of the twelfth till towards the end of the fifteenth century, one district might be in plenty, while another, at no great distance, by having its crop destroyed, either by some accident of the seasons, or by the incursion of some neighbouring baron, might be suffering all the horrors of a famine; and yet if the lands of some hostile lord were interposed between them, the one might not be able to give the least assistance to the other


    7. They found themselves altogether unprepared to stop or resist the incursion of Hyder Ali; and in consequence of those disorders, the company is now (1784) in greater distress than ever ; and, in order to prevent immediate bankruptcy, is once more reduced to supplicate the assistance of government


    8. ‘Those overseers end their dimensional incursion, but remain in contact with the collective


    9. “Dimensional incursion!? What the hell does that mean?” replied Chris, staring at the laptop screen


    10. ‘An incursion by another name is still an incursion

    11. long one, given that the Unity would be reacting to this incursion as might hornets whose nest had


    12. The extensive response told of events, all too close to what he had long suspected, to be doubted: the American CIA, he said, had employed him, Gordon Edward, and others as cocaine smugglers to finance their incursion into Nicaragua the same as had been done in Vietnam to finance certain ‘secret war’ activities only, in that case, the drug had been heroine


    13. This appears to have been a reversion to anciently old ways as archaeological and historical accounts place a Semitic incursion into Mesopotamia from Arabian lands to the south, either during or somewhat after the time of Sumer


    14. There was also a civil war in Ingalaterra over the succession, but the current king, Eduardo the Fourth (Edward IV), had staged a little incursion against Frantzia in conjunction with Ardangori until the king of Frantzia, Luis the Eleventh, bought him off


    15. “If the enemy attacks our territory while we’re doing this, we’ll break off the operation just long enough to deal with the incursion, then return to what we were doing


    16. “You should have responded immediately to the incursion and not come to seek my permission before you acted!”


    17. News of an unusually large and recent incursion by the Sea


    18. “Pharaoh's vizier has reason to believe that this incursion


    19. “You should have responded immediately to the incursion and not come to seek my


    20. and we feel that other viewpoints should have been considered in staffing the trans-temporial incursion personnel

    21. “The General says to pack full gear for alien territory incursion, two weeks minimum


    22. We know that many reputable Historians are concerned that this little incursion into our past could change Altgeld history in some very significant way


    23. Finding the book would be much easier with him since he had a lot of experience in the search of the sacred books and that was scarcely my first incursion into the field


    24. This difficult decision was made in light of evidence that the guerrilla incursion into the Federation and recent terrorist attacks were planned, organized and carried out by the Alliance


    25. community councils to draft a formal protest to the Federation against this incursion into our sovereign space as defined by Federation statute


    26. As for the army, the gunners of the coastal forts had suffered severely, even though they had made the enemy pay a heavy price for their incursion


    27. Upon which she announced the fulfillment of her promise to give Cyrus his fill of blood for his incursion of their land and killing of her son


    28. That clause however is not restricted to attacking Arab forces: Jewish forces will also have to refrain from attacking legitimate Arab territories, while any third party trying to militarily support any incursion or invasion of parts or all of Palestine may be subject to a lethal response from us


    29. Fleet that I’m in conference with the Romulan Empress Nelvana and that their incursion into Federation space is being handled appropriately


    30. I think they were honestly just looking for a way to defend ourselves against another Borg incursion

    31. All along the projected flight path of the Gorn incursion, nuclear weapons flared


    32. “An incursion,” my aunt said briefly, setting a container of pink Himalayan salt next to the white candles


    33. for a real time network incursion


    34. “We were warned of a Teriz incursion the week past and


    35. raiding behavior to stave off the Spanish incursion


    36. As they swung past Glencairn Bridge more signs of incursion


    37. whence he was driven by a sudden incursion ofthe French


    38. The stunned Orlandian fleet had no time to think, as they tried to react to the sudden incursion of the strangers that were taking them out left and right


    39. military to support an incursion by the South Vietnamese army into Laos


    40. People were intrigued by the new details that came every day, but they seemed angrier at the American incursion than at the fact that the world’s biggest terrorist had been living on our soil

    41. How long we might have remained in this ridiculous position it is impossible to say, but for the incursion of three thriving farmers—laid on by the waiter, I think—who came into the coffee-room


    42. Alan had timed his incursion well: all the nuns and novices were in the cathedral for the service of Sext


    43. In fact, HMS Defiant of the Royal Dohlaran Navy had once been HMS Dancer, of the Imperial Charisian Navy, the flagship of the heretical admiral who’d led that incursion


    44. If underground streams are present, however, water incursion in the mine can quickly become a serious problem, as was the case at McArthur River


    45. These various escapades again so terrorized the blacks that, had it not been for the monthly respite between Tarzan's visits, in which they had opportunity to renew hope that each fresh incursion would prove the last, they soon would have abandoned their new village


    46. If these proceedings are not all a sham, the territory in question is now in the possession of a people claiming to be sovereign and independent; and is it supposable that this people can behave so dastardly as to submit, without a struggle, to the incursion of a hostile army, whose avowed object is the conquest of the country and the subversion of its constitution and independence? And here permit me to remark, that the style and tenor of the letter from the Secretary of State of the 15th of November, 1810, to Governor Holmes, in answer to the letter of the President of the convention praying the recognition and protection of the United States, are not admirably calculated to give a welcome reception to the American Army


    47. It was too remote from the population of the country for the militia to act, in repelling and chastising Spanish incursion


    48. said that he never had known the incipient cause nor by what authority General Harrison made his incursion into the wilderness, beyond where the United States had extinguished the Indian titles, and destroyed the Prophet's town, but said that he hoped the time would come when he should know the merits of that enterprise


    49. Father Scheil makes an incursion into Assyriology by his publication of some of the Tel el-Amarna tablets, and in this connection M


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    Synonyms for "incursion"

    incursion penetration assault advance foray descent raid

    "incursion" definitions

    the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers)


    an attack that penetrates into enemy territory


    the mistake of incurring liability or blame