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Sentences starting with corps

Corps behind cursed corps ahead for sweeping the country clear of forage. [9]

Sentences ending with corps

If the woman with a twisted pelvis is to be considered an exempt, the woman with a defective organization should be recognized as belonging to the invalid corps. [3]
The student by whose courtesy we had been enabled to visit the dueling-place, wore the white cap--Prussian Corps. [5]
In the study were four gentlemen of the diplomatic corps. [2]
And now he was closing up--closing up on Fastolfe's rushing corps. [5]
I started with the White Cap corps. [5]
It chanced that the present occasion was the battle-day of the Red Cap Corps. [5]
What do you suppose I am staying in Hawkeye for, week after week, when I ought to be with my corps? [5]
John Porter be relieved from command of the corps he now commands in said army, and that Major-General Hooker take command of said corps. [7]
These topics were rarely discussed at the tavern or among the members of the corps. [10]
They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. [7]

Short sentences using corps

The Corps saw its opportunity. [5]
Consular Corps. [5]

Sentences containing corps two or more times

But instead of that, at the next village the sentinels of Davout's infantry corps detained him as the pickets of the vanguard had done, and an adjutant of the corps commander, who was fetched, conducted him into the village to Marshal Davout. [2]
Thus he stumbled on Bagovut's corps in a wood when it was already broad daylight, though the corps should long before have joined Orlov-Denisov. [2]
It is not named the Prussian Corps at all, but only the White Cap Corps. [5]
General Sheridan, with his cavalry, the Fifth corps, and Miles's Division of the Second Corps, which was sent to him this morning, is now sweeping down from the west. [7]
The corps etiquette extended even to us, who were strangers, and required us to group with the white corps only, and speak only with the white corps, while we were their guests, and keep aloof from the caps of the other colors. [5]
I mean a corps dog--the common property of the organization, like the corps steward or head servant; then there are other dogs, owned by individuals. [5]
Motionless, he watched corps after corps splash by, artillery, cavalry, and infantry, nor gave any sign that he heard their plaudits. [9]
They did not belong to any of the corps, but they were furnished with weapons and armor, and permitted to fight here by the five corps as a courtesy. [5]
Might not such a corps be constituted from the cavalry of Sigel's and Slocum's corps, with scraps we could pick up here and there? [7]

More example sentences with the word corps in them

You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
After that, the White Corps student gave many severe wounds, but got none of the consequence in return. [5]
He said it was, but as there was only one orderly in the corps, it was but right that he himself should have Bowers on his staff. [5]
In Bremen I was most cordially received in the family of Mohr, a member of my corps, in whose circle I spent some delightful hours, and also an evening never to be forgotten in the famous old Rathskeller. [10]
Mr. Jeff Davis was constantly writing him to take command of a corps in the confederate army, but Col. [5]
In one place was a hilarious picture of a student of the green cap corps with a bottle of champagne in each hand; and below was the legend: "These make an evil fate endurable. [5]
From this material, under cover of "liberty of speech," "liberty of the press," and "habeas corpus," they hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways. [7]
The Second and Twenty-fourth Corps captured forts, guns, and prisoners from the enemy, but I cannot tell the numbers. [7]
That night I told the General, who sent over to the headquarters of the 17th Corps to inquire. [9]
A corps student told me it was of record that Prince Bismarck fought thirty-two of these duels in a single summer term when he was in college. [5]
The large addition to the regular army, in connection with the defection that has so considerably diminished the number of its officers, gives peculiar importance to his recommendation for increasing the corps of cadets to the greatest capacity of the Military Academy. [7]
His recent appointment to the command of a corps, by one so competent to judge as General Sherman, proves this. [7]
Why, I had to keep a whole corps on duty to watch him. [9]
We arrived at this pretty little town yesterday, so effecting a junction with Schofield, who got in with the 3d Corps the day before. [9]
For all of these operations a corps of counsel had been employed, including the firm of Harrington and Bowes next to Theodore Watling, Joel Harrington was deemed the ablest lawyer in the city. [9]
Nearly all of them wore colored caps; there were white caps, green caps, blue caps, red caps, and bright-yellow ones; so, all the five corps were present in strong force. [5]
After going through the wood for about a mile and a half they came out on a glade where troops of Tuchkov's corps were stationed to defend the left flank. [2]
Again: if under the sudden anguish of a wound the receiver of it makes a grimace, he falls some degrees in the estimation of his fellows; his corps are ashamed of him: they call him "hare foot," which is the German equivalent for chicken-hearted. [5]
It is called the Prussian Corps, because none but Prussians are admitted to it. [5]
It is called the Prussian Corps for no particular reason. [5]
The blessing of the palms began, the cardinals first approaching, and afterwards the members of the diplomatic corps, the archbishops and bishops, the heads of the religious orders, and such private persons as have had permission to do so. [4]
Nothing, perhaps, lends the life of the corps a greater charm than the affectionate intercourse which unites individuals. [10]
The organization of the invalid corps, and 6. [7]
When I met the first friend in the blue cap no one need have sung our corps song, "Away with cares and crotchets! [10]
He had disbanded the corps, but he had not given up the arms, and, for reasons unknown, the Government had not pressed the point, so far as the world knew. [11]
The rest of the corps that was to stay watched grimly as the detachment put off in the little 'Diligence' and 'Silver Wave'. [9]
My explicit order that Washington should, by the judgment of all the Commanders of corps, be left entirely secure, had been neglected. [7]
It was considered that a person could strike harder in the duel, and with a more earnest interest, if he had never been in a condition of comradeship with his antagonist; therefore, comradeship between the corps was not permitted. [5]
I picked up such members of the family as fell in my vicinity, and subordinates of my corps collected the rest. [5]
From my first step out of doors I belonged to life, to the corps, to pleasure. [10]
Our corps was stationed on a hillside. [2]
Another corps of several thousand men is moving on Dmitrov. [2]
I can only say, that, if they shoot as steadily as they drink beer, there is no other corps of shooters that can stand before them. [4]
Leaving a half-dozen sailors on guard till the town corps should arrive, d'Avranche prepared to march, and turned to Delagarde. [11]
If I remember rightly," he added, turning again to Ephraim, the Fifth Corps was on the Orange turnpike. [9]
In one portrait-group representing (as each of these pictures did) an entire Corps, I took pains to count the ribbons: there were twenty-seven members, and twenty-one of them wore that significant badge. [5]
From General Wintzingerode's reports, I see that an enemy corps of ten thousand men is moving on the Petersburg road. [2]
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]
The corps of Ptah remained as a reserve behind the left wing. [10]
At intervals the presidents of the five corps have a cold official intercourse with each other, but nothing further. [5]
It has simply pleased each corps to name itself after some German state. [5]
The Peace of Paris, and the enrolment of the Lutzow corps in the line, brought the trio back to Berlin to civil life. [10]
Sheridan, with his own cavalry, the Fifth Corps, and part of the Second, is coming in from the west on the enemy's flank. [7]
Their colonel, of our regular Army Engineer Corps, was one of those broad-shouldered six-footers who, when they walk the streets of Paris, compel pedestrians to turn admiringly and give one a new pride in the manhood of our nation. [9]
Americans and Englishmen often join one or another of the five corps. [5]
I got some of this information from students themselves --students who did not belong to the corps. [5]
A good many of them wore colored caps of the corps. [5]
At the sight of them the King joined in the cheers of thousands of voices on the shore; these giant animals were to him auxiliaries who could put to flight a whole corps of hostile cavalry, and Arsinoe-Philadelphus, the Queen, sympathized with his pleasure. [10]
And every man of the Third Corps that time lift up the lid of hell and drop a Prussian in. [11]
Gemini, the Secretary of State and his whole corps could not have composed the like in a day. [9]
Silos Peckham's corps of instructors was not expected to be off duty or to stand at ease for any considerable length of time. [6]
Do the commanders of corps disobey your orders in anything? [7]
This new station, of brick and stone and glass and tiles, would hold an army corps with ease. [9]
These were troops of Beauharnais' corps which had started before any of the others. [2]
On the 26th of August there was a prospect of improvement in the condition of the corps. [10]
Longstreet's corps would not be sent away to bring an equal force back upon the same road; and there is no other direction for them to have come from. [7]
General Schenck has not applied to withdraw his resignation; but when General Grant was made Lieutenant-General, producing some change of commanders, General Blair sought to be assigned to the command of a corps. [7]
Perhaps there was not a great deal of scientific knowledge in the entire corps, nor was very much needed. [5]
Details of Hooker's night fight do great credit to his command, and particularly to the Eleventh Corps and Geary's part of the Twelfth. [7]
Early in the next round the White Corps student got an ugly wound on the side of his head and gave his opponent one like it. [5]
Harry informed his new friend that he was going out with the engineer corps of the Salt Lick Pacific Extension, but that wasn't his real business. [5]
The term was nearly over when an entertainment was given to the corps by one of its aristocratic members. [10]
It is true my relation, Monsieur le Marquis de St. Gre, bought me a pair of colors in the King's gardes du corps. [9]
I presume you met unexpected difficulties; and I beg you to believe that as surely as you have done your best, so have I. I have not the power now to fill up your Corps to 35,000. [7]
At first many members of my old corps, who were studying in Berlin, sought me, but gradually their places were filled by other friends. [10]
They interested me less than a group of the Corps d'Afrique, who lounged outside, guarding the entrance from the square, and unsuspicious that any assassin was trying to get out. [4]
Bearing upon this last point, I must tell you that I have some painful intimations that some of your corps and division commanders are not giving you their entire confidence. [7]
This was made known to Generals Grant and Sherman, and assented to by them, and the particular corps for him designated. [7]
It was not known quite in what part of the North-west, Madras (under his new name) was, for the corps of mounted police had been changed about recently. [11]
Please tell me, if you know, who was the one corps commander who was for fighting in the council of war on Sunday night. [7]
One moonlight night I was walking my horse close to the General's over the pine needles, when we overheard this conversation between two soldiers:-- "Say, John," said one, "I guess Uncle Billy don't know our corps is goin' north. [9]
Also that Major-General Hunter take command of the corps in said army which is now commanded by General Burnside. [7]
From what I've heard of that corps, I think I'd like to join it. [9]
But even at headquarters I found difficulties; I perceived that there were things about the White Cap Corps which one member knew and another one didn't. [5]
On the contrary, he is probably pursuing you with detachments, or at most with an army corps much weaker than the army entrusted to you. [2]
Above these some had an sweaters, others brown khaki tunics, from which I gathered that they belonged to the officers' training corps. [9]
Ney, who had had a corps of ten thousand men, reached Napoleon at Orsha with only one thousand men left, having abandoned all the rest and all his cannon, and having crossed the Dnieper at night by stealth at a wooded spot. [2]
If we had gone thither the following week as guests of another corps, the white caps, without meaning any offense, would have observed the etiquette of their order and ignored our presence. [5]
The contractors had given the young men leave to join the engineer corps as soon as they could, but otherwise had made no provision for them, and in fact had left them with only the most indefinite expectations of something large in the future. [5]
Please ascertain from General Sigel and his old corps whether Stahel or Schurz is preferable and telegraph the result, and I will act immediately. [7]
For three or four nights Mrs. Hawkins and Laura had been watching by the bedside; Clay had arrived, preceding Washington by one day, and he was now added to the corps of watchers. [5]
A portion of Foster's Division, Twenty Fourth Corps, made a most gallant charge this afternoon, and captured a very important fort from the enemy, with its entire garrison. [7]
A rule which forbids social intercourse between members of different corps is strict. [5]
I asked him for you, and you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. [2]
She was thankful for the opportunity of expressing her high admiration of a writer, whom, as she says, she regarded "as the social regenerator of his day--as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped state of things. [14]
She's been here for six months--has more influence than the whole diplomatic corps. [11]
In General Grant's first despatch after the fall of Vicksburg, he said, among other things, he would send the Ninth Corps to you. [7]
This sort of esprit de corps among the colored people was unexpected, and he wondered if they are not generally misunderstood by writers who attribute to them qualities of various kinds that they do not possess. [4]
It was a drawn battle, and corps law requires that drawn battles shall be refought as soon as the adversaries are well of their hurts. [5]
While corps and divisions and brigades and regiments have formed and fought and dwindled and gone out of existence, a great majority of the men who composed them are still living. [7]
His reception at court and by the ministers and diplomatic corps was very kind, and he greatly enjoyed meeting his old friends, Leslie, Rogers, and Moore. [4]
A fifth army corps, to be commanded by Major general N. P. Banks, will be formed from his own and General Shields's (late General Lander's) divisions. [7]
While the engineer corps went to the field, to run back a couple of miles and ascertain, approximately, if a road could ever get down to the Landing, and to sight ahead across the Run, and see if it could ever get out again, Col. [5]
Przebyszewski and his corps had laid down their arms. [2]
Third Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General S. P. Heintzelman. [7]
Second Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General E. V. Sumner. [7]
Fourth Corps to consist of three divisions, and to be commanded by Brigadier-General E. D. Keyes. [7]
I have heard complaint of a police corps at Nashville, but your name was not mentioned in connection with it, so far as I remember. [7]
A dashing Hungarian commanded the general's body-guard, which honorable corps was even then drawn up in the street before the house, surrounded at a respectable distance by a crowd that feared to jest. [9]
It was in command of a doubting major of ordnance; the corps of officers of Jefferson Barracks hard by was mottled with secession. [9]

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