Use armed in a sentence
Sentences starting with armed
- Armed with these slender powers, she hurried away, commissioned to bring either old Mr Garland or Mr Abel, bodily, to that apartment. [12]
- Armed as if for battle, he prepared for the row to the scene of misery, and requested Hermon to buckle a coat of mail under his chlamys and put on the sword he gave him. [10]
- Armed with these arguments, which appeared to her unanswerable, she drove to her daughter's early one morning so as to find her alone. [2]
Sentences ending with armed
- Two of them were armed. [11]
- Behind it was the wilderness of scrub, in which a fugitive would soon starve; in front was the narrow neck, with a cordon of chained dogs across it, and a line of lanterns, and a fence of living guards, armed. [5]
- The man was not in uniform, and was not armed. [5]
- A said, 'I'm not armed. [5]
- In particular, no loyal man who has been disarmed is named, but the affidavits show by name forty-two persons as disloyal who have been armed. [7]
- Mr. Valeer ventured in the streets, though not without being well armed. [5]
- The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of carrying a "settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver gives the individual thus armed. [6]
- I was helplessly down, and Winters was afoot and probably armed. [5]
- Perpetual peace we cannot have on any terms, I suppose; but I hope we can gradually reduce the war strength of Europe till we get it down to where it ought to be--20,000 men, properly armed. [5]
- Perhaps it would be well to go armed. [5]
Short sentences using armed
- Do you go armed? [6]
- The nation is armed. [4]
- All of them are armed. [11]
Sentences containing armed two or more times
- On the right side of the steps a division of the body-guard was stationed, armed with battleaxes, daggers, bows, and large shields; on the left, were the Greek mercenaries, armed in Ionian fashion. [10]
More example sentences with the word armed in them
- We know that you have armed a vast host against us, and we are ready to buy peace and liberty by a yearly tribute. [10]
- I said: "It would end our adventures at the very start; and we, being without weapons, could do nothing with that armed gang. [5]
- Balashev remembered these words, "So long as a single armed foe remains on Russian soil," but some complex feeling restrained him. [2]
- Presently there came word from the Governor that I might walk upon the ramparts, and I was taken forth for several hours each day; always, however, under strict surveillance, my guards, well armed, attending, while the ramparts were, as usual, patrolled by soldiers. [11]
- And that achieved, with the town still full of armed men, he would have a perilous run. [11]
- They were armed with bows and lances, and a charioteer stood beside each, so that their undivided attention could be bestowed upon the battle. [10]
- Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run. [2]
- He was armed with a musketoon (which he carried rather as a joke), a pike and an ax, which latter he used as a wolf uses its teeth, with equal case picking fleas out of its fur or crunching thick bones. [2]
- He was armed with a long knife, and I saw four men fall beneath it, while he himself got but one bad cut. [11]
- Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. [7]
- Meanwhile shouts and whistles were still heard; nay, when Tarautas came out on the arena in the highly decorated armor of a Roman legate, at the head of a troop of heavily armed men, and again greeted the emperor, the commotion began afresh. [10]
- In this world where every thing is deceitful, and no one is outspoken, the man who alone is under the necessity of proclaiming what he considers the truth, is like a warrior who opposes himself without shield or harness to a fully armed foe. [10]
- Fielding and Dicky were both armed, but Fielding would not fire until he saw that his own crew had joined the rioters on the bank. [11]
- One day I went as usual, armed only with my bow and arrow, and, accompanied by my grey-hounds, heedlessly followed a hare; a troop of Danaids fell upon me, bound me with cords, and led me into their camp. [10]
- Inasmuch as everybody went armed, we had an inquest about every day, and so this department was naturally set down among the "regulars. [5]
- We know pretty well how much of sincerity there is in the fears so clamorously expressed, and how far they are found in company with uncompromising hostility to the armed enemies of the nation. [6]
- They bristled with weapons, and armed men crowded every corner of space. [11]
- Soon after sunrise we were followed by villagers armed with clubs and spears. [5]
- The advanced guard was composed of legions of cavalry, heavily armed, looking like moving masses of polished steel. [4]
- Nobody believed there was any bear in the case; but everybody who could get a gun carried one; and we went into the woods armed with guns, pistols, pitchforks, and sticks, against all contingencies or surprises,--a crowd made up mostly of scoffers and jeerers. [4]
- If he made up his mind that he would have her, he must go armed with all implements, from the red hackle to the harpoon. [6]
- He was armed to the teeth. [5]
- I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homoeopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. [5]
- It was hard to realize that this silent plain had once resounded with martial music and trembled to the tramp of armed men. [5]
- The Pharaoh desired to possess himself of the wife of the younger one, who lived on the Mount of Cedars, and he sent armed men to fetch her away; but only one of them came back to him, for Batau had slain all the others. [10]
- Here stood six thousand Walloons, to defend the half-finished wall, and behind them large bodies of armed citizens. [10]
- It was as though, fully armed for his battle of life, he had suddenly been stripped of armour and every weapon, and left naked on the field. [11]
- But I thought this would not be allowable, and, armed with an umbrella, I set off along the road, with which I was perfectly familiar. [10]
- Had Venters met these dark-clothed, dark-visaged, heavily armed men anywhere in Utah, let alone in this robbers' retreat, he would have recognized them as rustlers. [13]
- Among the Germans there were, too, a few gladiators of exceptional stature, armed with sharp weapons, so as to defer the decision for a while. [10]
- Be prepared for the worst; then you are armed against failure and preserve your right to hope! [10]
- The waggons stopped the way, and neither could the rest of the train, nor their armed outriders, nor our own folks come past, by reason that the ditch was full deep and the underwood thick. [10]
- They retired to the upper end of the "Meadows," resumed civilized apparel, washed off their paint, and then, heavily armed, drove down in wagons to the beleaguered emigrants, bearing a flag of truce! [5]
- It referred to the time when, with his brothers, he had attacked a train of freight waggons and not cut down their armed escort alone. [10]
- All belonged to the royal war fleet, and the deck of every one was crowded with armed soldiers. [10]
- During many minutes the only sound that broke the stillness was the clash of armed men, the thud of hoofs, and the snorting and the wild breathing of the chargers. [11]
- I would assign the most soulful poets to that district, all heavily armed with their poems. [5]
- But before leaving the Manor House of Pontiac he had armed himself with pistols, in the grim hope that he might be required to use them. [11]
- When dispatching Balashev, the Emperor repeated to him the words that he would not make peace so long as a single armed enemy remained on Russian soil and told him to transmit those words to Napoleon. [2]
- Each member of the crew is armed with three tarry rope-yarns, knotted at the ends. [11]
- Olympius had entrusted the command of the little garrison of armed men to Memnon, a veteran legate of great experience, who had lost his left arm in the war against the Goths. [10]
- He had quitted the chariot in which he had set out and had been made to mount a dromedary; two horsemen armed to the teeth rode constantly at his side. [10]
- He brought to the camp a stout force of warriors, heavily armed, being each clad in ten pair of linsey-woolsey breeches, and overshadowed by broad-brimmed beavers, with short pipes twisted in their hatbands. [4]
- The crew of the bark had assembled on the quarterdeck, stout English tars every man of them, armed with pikes and belaying-pins; and at a word from the mate they rushed in a body over the plank. [9]
- The guilds and the armed defenders of the city pressed forward in bands under the linden. [10]
- Every field on that long route was watched by an armed sentinel, some of whom had fallen asleep, no doubt, but were on hand, nevertheless. [5]
- So it was that as the Seigneur made his epigram and gloated over it, the five men, with horses at a convenient distance, armed to the teeth, broke stealthily into Charley's house. [11]
- Tell them, Gobryas, that an armed host is standing on the Median plains ready to answer their demands with the sword. [10]
- These statistics show that a reinforcement of 300 Johannesburgers, armed merely with muskets, would have killed, at the outside, only a little over a half of another Boer. [5]
- Our commerce was suffering greatly by a few armed vessels built upon and furnished from foreign shores, and we were threatened with such additions from the same quarter as would sweep our trade from the sea and raise our blockade. [7]
- The pants were stuffed into the tops of high boots, the heels whereof were armed with great Spanish spurs, whose little iron clogs and chains jingled with every step. [5]
- Out in the streets was the tramping of armed men, together with the call of bugles and the sharp rattle of drums. [11]
- The redoubtable chief stood in menacing attitude, with his eighteen-foot spear poised; his warriors stood massed at his back, armed for battle, their faces eloquent with their long-cherished loathing for white men. [5]
- He had just started for Slow Down Ranch armed with his greasy, well- thumbed Bible like a weapon in his pocket, when he heard a voice call him. [11]
- The matter at stake was not sufficiently important to induce the populace to offer an armed force resistance which might have entailed serious danger. [10]
- But this surmise soon proved wrong, for the first persons to appear were two armed horsemen, who turned their heads as nimbly as their steeds, now to the right and now to the left, scanning the thickets along the road distrustfully. [10]
- I could see soldiers here and there, armed and swaggering, and faces of peasants and shopkeepers whom I knew. [11]
- As she did so, she saw Indians crowding into the gate armed with knives, guns, bows, and arrows. [11]
- An armed desperado slapped my face in the presence of twenty spectators. [5]
- To this place Slade was marched, surrounded by a guard, composing the best armed and most numerous force that has ever appeared in Montana Territory. [5]
- The Greek, Aristides, shared his fate, the captain hitherto of the armed guard; while Zminis had been the head of the spies, intrusted with communicating written reports to the chief of the night-watch. [10]
- The forts thus seized had been put in improved condition, new ones had been built, and armed forces had been organized and were organizing, all avowedly with the same hostile purpose. [7]
- Upon this hostility, says Smith, the President was contented the fort should be palisaded, and the ordnance mounted, and the men armed and exercised. [4]
- He saw that Rudyard was armed, and that the end might come at any moment. [11]
- Anukis perceived what restrained the crowd; for, as the equipage approached its destination, a body of armed youths stopped it. [10]
- The corps of Ra, armed with bows and arrows, preceeded them to clear the way; they crossed the narrow bed of a dry torrent, and then a broad valley opened before them, extending to the right and left and enclosed by ranges of mountains. [10]
- Preserve his army, put a bow of brass in the hands of those who have armed themselves in Thy Name, and gird their loins with strength for the fight. [2]
- A crowd of presentiments rushed into her innocent and, till then, unsuspecting heart, and they were all so alarming that it was a relief to her when a shout of joy from the panoplied breasts of several thousand armed men rent the air. [10]
- Consider what a power they were, armed like that, and what an opportunity they had. [5]
- Let us abolish policemen who carry clubs and revolvers, and put in a squad of poets armed to the teeth with poems on Spring and Love. [5]
- Pans of blazing pitch were set in front of the strong locked doors of the real fortress, and in their light armed shepherds were pacing to and fro. [10]
- The commandant of Pelusium had therefore placed a small garrison of heavily armed soldiers and archers in Tennis, for whom tents had been pitched on the site of the burned white house. [10]
- He said the peasants were obdurate and that at the present moment it would be imprudent to "overresist" them without an armed force, and would it not be better first to send for the military? [2]
- There was armed peace the rest of my uncle's visit. [9]
- The miners turned out almost en masse, leaving their work and forming in solid column about six hundred strong, armed to the teeth, they marched up to Virginia. [5]
- Smith fastened two or three charred pieces of match to divers small lines of an hundred fathoms in length, armed with powder. [4]
- As the door opened, and Nahoum disappeared leisurely and composedly, David caught a glimpse of a guard of armed Nubians in leopard-skins filed against the white wall of the other room. [11]
- A few minutes only passed, and the two hunters came running back with rueful faces to say they had seen two Indians near, armed with muskets and knives. [11]
- True, he had only a small band of ill- armed men, but better arms could be got, and by the time they reached the sea--who could tell! [11]
- They hesitated, and one of them said-- "He is armed, Sir Hugh, and we are weaponless. [5]
- He fell armed on the soil of his home at the time when I was most gratefully rejoicing in the signs of returning health--the year 1863. [10]
- I gazed long on the river, and my guards, stoutly armed, stood near, watching me, and talking in low tones. [11]
- Two or three of the old "Salina" company entered our hole on the Monitor yesterday morning, before our men got there, and took possession, armed with revolvers. [5]
- Sir Erasmus Gower, of the Neptune, has a fleet of warships, gunboats, and amateur armed vessels getting ready to attack us. [11]
- We saw some of the fightings and killings; and by and by we went one night to an armory where two hundred young men had met, upon call, to be armed and go forth against the rioters, under command of a military man. [5]
- The principal part of the castle of the Pharaohs was constructed of light Nile-mud bricks and elegantly carved woodwork, but the extensive walls which surrounded it were ornamented and fortified with towers, in front of which heavily armed soldiers stood on guard. [10]
- Along the line of the Bazaar ranged another thousand men, armed only with krises, under the command of the heir of the late Dakoon, and with these were a hundred and fifty mounted hillsmen, watchful and deliberate. [11]
- Immediately a number of armed men came bundling up the hatch way. [11]
- Suppose a party of armed foreigners were to enter a village church in America and break ornaments from the altar railings for curiosities, and climb up and walk upon the Bible and the pulpit cushions? [5]
- A certain kind of an eye is an incomparable weapon, and armed men have been cowed by those who possess it, though otherwise defenceless. [9]
- But she heard nothing save the footsteps of a sentinel and the voice of Hur, who was patrolling the camp with a body of armed men. [10]
- He had, apparently, not been idle since Sunday, and was armed cap-a pie with time-worn arguments that need not be set down. [9]
- If he was not armed, well, then, there would be the chances in his favour; it wasn't easy to kill with hands alone. [11]
- Then, believing in no one in Egypt any more, he himself went with an armed escort and his Quaker hat, and the Order of the Khedive, to Fazougli, and brought Shelek Pasha penniless to Cairo. [11]
- He says: "I never lost an opportunity of impressing the Arabs with the perfection of American and English weapons, and the danger of attacking any one of the armed Franks. [5]
- The history of most countries has been that of majorities, mounted majorities, clad in iron, armed with death treading down the tenfold more numerous minorities. [3]
- Within ten short minutes after we had opened fire, armed resistance was totally annihilated, the campaign was ended, we fifty-four were masters of England. [5]
- This did not mean hostility, but only an armed neutrality. [5]
- He instantly joined me, and we ran on together: the fishermen shouting loudly as they watched the river-drivers come armed down the hill-slope into the village. [11]
- He should see me at a certain point on the ramparts, and, well armed, we also would make our way to Sillery, and from the spot called the Anse du Foulon drift down the river in the dead of night. [11]
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