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Sentences ending with detachment

Allow me to remain with Prince Bagration's detachment. [2]
Her face was pale though composed, yet her eyes had a look of abstraction or detachment. [11]
No one was or is able to foresee in what condition our or the enemy's armies will be in a day's time, and no one can gauge the force of this or that detachment. [2]
The light transports meanwhile were bringing up more troops from a second detachment. [9]
In the next hour I got a couple more, and they went the way of the first one, down the throats of the detachment. [5]
Then he told him all he knew of the French detachment. [2]
But a new emotion had begun to take possession of Janet--an emotion so strong as to give her an unlookedfor sense of detachment. [9]

Sentences containing detachment two or more times

Once in a while a detachment of the Home Guards, commanded by a lieutenant; would march swiftly into a street and stop before a house, whose occupants would run to the rear, only to encounter another detachment in the alley. [9]

More example sentences with the word detachment in them

Only Count Orlov-Denisov with his Cossacks (the least important detachment of all) got to his appointed place at the right time. [2]
As for the Vicomtesse, she wore an ingenuous air of detachment, and seemed supremely unconscious of the volcano by her side. [9]
When on the twenty-first of October his general expressed a wish to send somebody to Denisov's detachment, Petya begged so piteously to be sent that the general could not refuse. [2]
At last the tumult was so great that the whip-bearers were insufficient to cope with it, and a detachment of the body-guard was sent to patrol the streets. [10]
This wall was to protect the highest of the gods, and among the detachment told off to defend it, were Karnis, his son, and his wife. [10]
The first Russians to enter Moscow were the Cossacks of Wintzingerode's detachment, peasants from the adjacent villages, and residents who had fled from Moscow and had been hiding in its vicinity. [2]
As they sat there, a messenger came from the commandant to say that the detachment was to start that afternoon for Bompari. [11]
The effect upon the next detachment of tourists was very marked. [5]
The infantry of the detachment passed along the road and quickly disappeared amid the trees in the mist of early dawn, hundreds of feet splashing through the mud. [2]
The rest of the corps that was to stay watched grimly as the detachment put off in the little 'Diligence' and 'Silver Wave'. [9]
He did not see her under the shaded lamp, and she sat watching him with a curious feeling of detachment as he unfolded his newspaper and sank, with a sigh of content, into the cushioned chair which Mr. Grainger had vacated. [9]
Asking about the Russian prisoners with that detachment, Dolokhov said: "A horrid business dragging these corpses about with one! [2]
A French officer, returning from the advanced detachment, rode up to Murat and reported that the gates of the citadel had been barricaded and that there was probably an ambuscade there. [2]
Nancy had the power to give me this exquisite sense of detachment that must sustain her. [9]
In two bounds our little detachment was in the street, the fire spouting red from the Deckards, faint, shadowy forms fading along the line of trees. [9]
A detachment of our army occupied Meung and pillaged it. [5]
On the evening of this day of her destiny--carrying the story of her own fate within its twenty-four hours--she was in a mood of detachment from life's routine. [11]
About the middle of the Arbat Street, near the Church of the Miraculous Icon of St. Nicholas, Murat halted to await news from the advanced detachment as to the condition in which they had found the citadel, le Kremlin. [2]
Serpukhov is already occupied by an enemy detachment and Tula with its famous arsenal so indispensable to the army, is in danger. [2]
Bonaparte's adjutant had not yet reached Murat's detachment and the battle had not yet begun. [2]
In Bagration's detachment no one knew anything of the general position of affairs. [2]
And the other night we had a detachment of the jubilee Singers--6. [5]
There had been many rumours abroad that a detachment of men from the parish were to join Papineau. [11]
As he stood leaning against a tree-box by the curb, dragged down once more by that dreaded feeling of detachment, he heard familiar voices close beside him. [9]
Bagration's exhausted and hungry detachment, which alone covered this movement of the transport and of the whole army, had to remain stationary in face of an enemy eight times as strong as itself. [2]
Joshua, at the head of a strong detachment, had retreated from the battle, accompanied by Bezaleel, Hur's grandson, Aholiab, his most beloved comrade, the youthful Ephraim, and Reuben, Milcah's husband. [10]
But now, there has come from the farther West a new detachment to Fort Cypress, and they may be able to help us. [11]
The winter's furs had been carried away in the early spring to the Company's post, by a detachment of coureurs de bois. [11]
A detachment of guides went up, but by the time they had made the tedious trip and reached the cabin, a raging storm had set in. [5]
There was a guardhouse at the north gate with a small detachment of Egyptian soldiers, who were entrusted with the protection of the Mukaukas' person. [10]
Next day the French army did not renew their attack, and the remnant of Bagration's detachment was reunited to Kutuzov's army. [2]
About half past five o'clock we arrived at a bridge which spans the Visp, and after throwing over a detachment to see if it was safe, the caravan crossed without accident. [5]
Up and down Faber Street, everywhere, the game went on: but the police were watchful, and once a detachment of militia passed. [9]
Some Cossacks of Dokhturov's detachment reported having sighted the French Guards marching along the road to Borovsk. [2]
At that time Dokhturov had under his command, besides Dorokhov's detachment, the two small guerrilla detachments of Figner and Seslavin. [2]
Meeting Bagration's weak detachment on the Znaim road he supposed it to be Kutuzov's whole army. [2]
The dragon being dead, the emperor fell on the hero's neck and said: "Deliverer, name your request," at the same time beckoning out behind with his heel for a detachment of his daughters to form and advance. [5]
On August 24 Davydov's first partisan detachment was formed and then others were recognized. [2]
He found the Cossacks, inquired for the regiment operating with Platov's detachment and by evening found his master, Nicholas Rostov, quartered at Yankovo. [2]
A detachment of constabulary made a way through the crushing and yelling mob, and another division of Lybian police led a prisoner towards a side gate of the court. [10]
Gradually Ditmar became conscious of this detachment, this new evidence of an extraordinary faculty of escaping him that seemed unimpaired. [9]
The officer in command of the detachment stopped us, and said that the governor would be glad if we would come to Government House for an hour, while an inquiry was being held. [11]
To-night, a certain clairvoyance had been vouchsafed him, and he beheld these men, his associates and supporters, with a detachment never before achieved. [9]
This detachment halted at the outskirts of a forest, on the path leading from the village of Stromilova to Dmitrovsk. [2]
Now the robed and mitred great heads of the church, and their attendants, filed in upon the platform and took their appointed places; these were followed by the Lord Protector and other great officials, and these again by a steel-clad detachment of the Guard. [5]
A third has advanced along the Vladimir road, and a fourth, rather considerable detachment is stationed between Ruza and Mozhaysk. [2]
When they were about two days' journey still from the end of their march, they had a bloody skirmish with a roving band of men that seemed to belong to a larger detachment of troops. [10]
Soon after that a report was received from Dorokhov's guerrilla detachment operating to the left of Tarutino that troops of Broussier's division had been seen at Forminsk and that being separated from the rest of the French army they might easily be destroyed. [2]
The alarmist was a horseman who gave notice that a detachment of Union soldiers was on its way from Hannibal with orders to capture and hang any bands like ours which it could find, and said we had no time to lose. [5]
In front rode a detachment of Wurttemberg hussars and behind them rode the King of Naples himself accompanied by a numerous suite. [2]
The result was a compromise which was inevitable: a small detachment was sent to Forminsk to attack Broussier. [2]

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