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Sentences starting with battle

Battle is the great vivisector. [3]

Sentences ending with battle

At 11.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle. [7]
He was eighty-five years old, and had spent his whole life in battle. [5]
Upon these two words he stamped, through them he perspired mightily, and with them he clenched his stubby fingers--such fingers as dug trenches, or snatched lewdly at soft flesh, in days of barbarian battle. [11]
In patience and with care have I trained myself for the battle. [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]
Not even those who stand nearest to me would understand me in the noise of battle. [10]
Submission, courage, exertion, when practicable--these seem to be the weapons with which we must fight life's long battle. [14]
The Golden Dogs were making preparations for the battle. [11]
From Moscow to Vyazma the French army of seventy-three thousand men not reckoning the Guards (who did nothing during the whole war but pillage) was reduced to thirty-six thousand, though not more than five thousand had fallen in battle. [2]
What is the use of that, when a third of their army has melted away on the road from Moscow to Vyazma without any battle? [2]

Short sentences using battle

Farewell till after the battle! [10]
Never was battle shorter. [11]
The battle now rages furiously. [7]
He was going into battle. [11]
Setchem fought a hard battle. [10]
The battle had begun! [2]
Noise is not battle. [11]
But life is a battle. [14]

Sentences containing battle two or more times

The lost battle was the famous disaster that is called in history the Battle of the Herrings. [5]
Is it better to give up Moscow without a battle, or by accepting battle to risk losing the army as well as Moscow? [2]
In consequence of this battle Kutuzov received a diamond decoration, and Bennigsen some diamonds and a hundred thousand rubles, others also received pleasant recognitions corresponding to their various grades, and following the battle fresh changes were made in the staff. [2]
After Smolensk Napoleon sought a battle beyond Dorogobuzh at Vyazma, and then at Tsarevo-Zaymishche, but it happened that owing to a conjunction of innumerable circumstances the Russians could not give battle till they reached Borodino, seventy miles from Moscow. [2]
On the other question, how the battle of Borodino and the preceding battle of Shevardino were fought, there also exists a definite and well-known, but quite false, conception. [2]
When the battle opened, however, I saw that if I stayed with the General (who was then behind the reserves) I would see little or nothing; I went ahead "to get information" beyond the line of battle into the woods. [9]
At the beginning of the battle they stood blocking the way to Moscow and they still did so at the end of the battle as at the beginning. [2]
And it was not Napoleon who directed the course of the battle, for none of his orders were executed and during the battle he did not know what was going on before him. [2]
But this was not and could not be done, for during the whole battle Napoleon was so far away that, as appeared later, he could not know the course of the battle and not one of his orders during the fight could be executed. [2]
Now the decisive moment of battle had come when Kutuzov would be destroyed and the power pass to Bennigsen, or even if Kutuzov won the battle it would be felt that everything was done by Bennigsen. [2]

More example sentences with the word battle in them

Many thanks to yourself, officers, and men for the gallant battle of last Sunday. [7]
I have watched your battle against beauty in behalf of truth, and rejoiced, though I often saw you and your little band of young disciples shoot beyond the mark. [10]
In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down. [6]
We civilians, as you know, have a very bad way of deciding whether a battle was won or lost. [2]
I suppose what you have heard a rumor of was not a general battle, but an "affair" at Bristow Station on the railroad, a few miles beyond Manassas Junction toward the Rappahannock, on Wednesday, the 14th. [7]
In the battle you are alone, but the hand to heal the wounds may be another's. [11]
In the eleven years since they had been together at the Battle of Jersey, events, travel, and responsibility had altered him vastly. [11]
In four years--four years of battle days--his endurance, his fertility of resource, his magnanimity, were sorely tried, and never found wanting. [7]
More than nine years had passed since the closing of the Hartford house--eventful years that had seen failure, bereavement, battle with debt, and rehabilitated fortunes. [5]
When I stopped writing last evening at the summons of the General, I was about to tell you something of the battle of Bentonville on Tuesday last. [9]
The Emperor was wounded, the battle lost. [2]
He had been wounded in the battle, and here was one who held out the hand of healing to him. [11]
But the battle would have been lost without the guards and our troops. [10]
One more battle would have abolished the waiting chains of millions upon millions of unborn Russians and I wish it could have been fought. [5]
Oh, if misfortune would draw her again as near to him as during the early months of their married life and directly before it, he could rise from his depression with fresh vigour and transform the battle, now half lost, into victory. [10]
Philip searched them with the feverish eagerness of a maiden who scans the report of a battle in which her lover has been engaged. [4]
Everyone is familiar with Joshua's later life, so rich in action, and how he won in battle a new home for his people. [10]
Those who ride with him must do battle with the same valour. [11]
At last Sir Wissenschaft, a poor and obscure knight, out of a far country, arrived to do battle with the monster. [5]
In short, Hodder wished to go into battle side by side with McCrae. [9]
He explained his wish to be present at the battle and to see the position. [2]
No real good will be accomplished until noble, burgher and peasant cheerfully yield to him, and unite to battle under his leadership for the highest blessings of life. [10]
This procrastinator Kutuzov, whose motto was "Patience and Time," this enemy of decisive action, gave battle at Borodino, investing the preparations for it with unparalleled solemnity. [2]
Davoust and Massena, who wrought in many a battle tragedy, are here, and so also is Rachel, of equal renown in mimic tragedy on the stage. [5]
The skilful hand which, in battle, had aided many a bleeding comrade soon completed the task. [10]
Besides the sun, which when the battle began had just risen, was already sinking to rest and should it prove necessary to force an entrance into the oasis it was not advisable to fight in darkness. [10]
In the battle which he had commenced he must not shrink from wounds, and he was struck by many a poisoned shaft. [10]
During the night which had proved so eventful to our friends, much had occurred in the king's camp, for the troops were to advance to the long-anticipated battle before sunrise. [10]
All the galleys which had escaped from the battle had entered the harbour the day before, wreathed with garlands as if a great victory had been won. [10]
But the paths wherein ye go to battle must be the old paths; your sword shall be your staff by day, and the Book your lantern by night. [11]
Bid me go where thou wilt, do what thou wilt, so that I may be among the fighters, and in the battle forget what I have seen. [11]
Killed in battle, where the best of Russian men and Russia's glory were led to destruction. [2]
All this is what we see around us, now, now while we are actually fighting this great battle, and supporting this great load of indebtedness. [6]
But probably they were rather private citizens on their way to some festival celebrating the victory; for every one now believed in a great battle and a successful issue of the war. [10]
Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone. [5]
Excitement and adventure were as the breath of life to him, and since he had played his little part at the Jersey battle in a bandbox eleven years before, he had touched hands with accidents of flood and field in many countries. [11]
The French losses were almost equal to ours, but very early we said to ourselves that we were losing the battle, and we did lose it. [2]
The French soldiers went to kill and be killed at the battle of Borodino not because of Napoleon's orders but by their own volition. [2]
Finally came the week of the battle of Antietam. [7]
In the first week of July the decisive battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of war, and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. [7]
Every one who wears garlands or weapons heard of a battle won. [10]
One was that we being weak and the day far gone, the battle might not be decisive. [5]
With certain persons we are lifted up, inspired to face the battle of life and overcome its difficulties. [9]
At first I watched the battle eagerly, with a throbbing heart. [10]
Others preferred to watch this futile battle rather than give themselves up to the anxiety which filled their minds. [10]
Divine as she was, dauntless as she was in battle, she was human also. [5]
While her lover was wielding the sword she, too, had a battle to fight. [10]
And this much was to be said for him, that after he had entered a battle he never hesitated, never under any circumstances reconsidered the probable effect of his course. [9]
A British captain was struck by a cannon-ball on the head, just as he was giving an order, at the Battle of the Nile. [6]
When the battle was shifted to the Senate it was as good as lost. [9]
The nullification battle was set; the currency conflict still raged; it was a time of inflation and land speculation; the West, every day more explored and opened, was the land of promise for capital and energy. [4]
The young Seigneur was ready for battle also. [11]
When the battle was over, the Persians returned in triumph to their tents, to be warmly welcomed by Croesus and the warriors and priests who had remained behind, and to celebrate their victory by prayers and sacrifices. [10]
When the battle was over they would come, or, maybe, before it was over. [11]
No, Jack's battle was not won in a day, or a week, or a year. [4]
And not only was Napoleon not afraid to extend his line, but he welcomed every step forward as a triumph and did not seek battle as eagerly as in former campaigns, but very lazily. [2]
Just as he was leaving in the early morning a horseman rode rapidly past, and called out to the smith, who was standing in front of the shop: "The battle is lost. [10]
If his prayer was heard, and his Majesty should decide to battle for the holiest cause, sorrowful anxieties would vanish from his pathway as the mists of dawn scatter before the rising sun. [10]
The battle itself was fought with stakes blunted at the tops. [10]
At last it was decided that the men were too much wearied to do battle longer. [5]
Now the battle was at its highest. [5]
But Pretty Pierre was at Fort Luke when the battle occurred, and, before and after, he sifted the business thoroughly. [11]
They said it was an old battle ground. [5]
In battle he was always under fire, so that Kutuzov reproved him for it and feared to send him to the front, and like Dokhturov he was one of those unnoticed cogwheels that, without clatter or noise, constitute the most essential part of the machine. [2]
No, for there was a vast contempt in his gaze now, and he had had no contempt for the Southerners, and would have shaken hands with any of them the moment the battle was over. [9]
At the top was a plateau, smooth and fine as a parade-ground, where battle could be given, or move be made upon the city and citadel, which lay on ground no higher. [11]
Some thought it was a pity that Joan had declined battle, some thought not. [5]
And yet there was a period during which he pursued his shrunken duties as though nothing had happened to him; as a man who has been struck in battle keeps on, loath to examine, to acknowledge the gravity of his wound; fearing to, perhaps. [9]
He was to wage no less courageous a battle at home, in the King's own capital. [9]
She and her virgins ran to these flames, while Horus led the youths to battle against Typhon on the opposite shore. [10]
After the great victory gained by Count Egmont against the military forces of France, eleven months after the battle of St. Quentin, there was enough to be seen in Brussels. [10]
And meanwhile, the very next morning after the battle, the French army advanced of itself upon the Russians, carried forward by the force of its own momentum now seemingly increased in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from its aim. [2]
Never, since his very first visit to a circus, had Caracalla left unnoticed for so long a time the progress of such a battle as this. [10]
To be keyed up to a battle-pitch, and then to have the battle deferred, is a trial of flesh and spirit. [9]
Even Catherine dried up her tears and laughed when she thought of the English getting hold of the French Commander-in-Chief's reason for staying out of a battle. [5]
The dispositions drawn up by Weyrother for the battle of Austerlitz were a model of perfection for that kind of composition, but still they were criticized--criticized for their very perfection, for their excessive minuteness. [2]
And they drew up as in line of battle in the Place d'Armes,--dragoons, fusileros de montanas, light and heavy infantry. [9]
Maria had grown up amid the battle for freedom, and knew how to estimate the grave importance of the tidings her husband had received. [10]
They had an unfair show in the battle of life, and they held it no sin to take military advantage of the enemy--in a small way; in a small way, but not in a large one. [5]
It was the undecided battle, and the enemy, as in his noblest moments he had considered the growing passion, was getting the better of him. [6]
Hundreds saw the two make their way across the veld, across the lead-swept plain; but such things in the hour of battle are commonplaces; they are taken as part of the awful game. [11]
Even now the truer spiritual goal is glimpsed through the battle clouds, and has been hailed in world-reverberating phrases by our American President. [9]
Half-breed and Indian troubles came-- The same old story--land and game; And Dubois' Men were the first to feel The bullet-sting and the clip of steel; And last in battle 'gainst thousands sent, With Gatling guns for our punishment. [11]
In that house, too, General Warren probably passed the night before the Bunker Hill battle, and over its threshold must the stately figure of Washington have often cast its shadow. [6]
You--you ask me to yield to them, when you have lost your son, when they're willing to sacrifice--to murder my son on the field of battle? [9]
It is accustomed to this view of life, so much so that it fancies it never knew what war was, or what a battle was, until the novelists began to report them. [4]
Saul had crept to this place in the darkness, while his army slept, to learn what fate awaited him in the morrow's battle. [5]
I have listened to the guns of Five Forks, where Sheridan and Warren bore their own colors in the front of the charge, I was with Mr. Lincoln while the battle of Petersburg was raging, and there were tears in his eyes. [9]
We have listened to the firing on the skirmish lines for a long time, and now the real battle is at hand. [9]
Five years previous to the battle of the Plains of Abraham, one comes across three genuine Scots in the streets of Quebec--all however prisoners of war, taken in the border raids--as such under close surveillance. [11]
I should like to tell with what swiftness, under the stress of battle, the wounded are hurried back to the coast and even to England itself. [9]
I am ready to submit myself in all things to His will; but tell me, Michaud, how did you leave the army when it saw my ancient capital abandoned without a battle? [2]
From politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry jests and gossip. [2]
It was easy to see that what he was listening to touched him painfully, and that the two diametrically different men were fighting a battle which could never lead to any satisfactory issue. [10]
She had refused to see him again before the battle, that she might not divert his thoughts from the great task approaching. [10]
While rightly resolved to prosecute the war on the battle lines to the utmost limit of American resources, he points out that the true significance of the conflict lies in "revolutionary change. [9]
He gave orders to prepare for a fresh conflict to finish the enemy and did this not to deceive anyone, but because he knew that the enemy was beaten, as everyone who had taken part in the battle knew it. [2]
Then follow me to prayer at the altar of Amon, and then-to battle. [10]
And it came to pass that Coriantumr wrote again an epistle unto Shiz, desiring that he would not come again to battle, but that he would take the kingdom, and spare the lives of the people. [5]
Pudd'nhead Wilson advanced to meet them, and said anxiously: "I must say a word in behalf of my principal's proxy, Count Luigi, to whom you have kindly granted the privilege of fighting my principal's battle for him. [5]

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