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Sentences starting with enemy

Enemy of her country though he was, she would appeal to him. [11]
Enemy of our country though he be, I am surely bound to speak him well--he saved my life. [11]

Sentences ending with enemy

When Orion tempted you to perjure yourself, did he behave as my friend or as my foe, my bitterest and most implacable enemy? [10]
But even if you had wings, and could fly straight to him, they would overpower him if I cannot succeed in turning the left wing on the rear of the enemy. [10]
If you tell, you are my enemy! [2]
A Cossack patrol would have sufficed to observe the enemy. [2]
A noble heart which sees itself forced to pity a foe, easily forgives; and was she ever your enemy? [10]
The squadron in which Rostov was serving had scarcely time to mount before it was halted facing the enemy. [2]
She knew now where the excommunicated man dwelt after whom Stephanus often asked, and she had gathered from the old man's lamentations and dark hints, that Paulus too had been ensnared and brought to ruin by her enemy. [10]
But the Moslems were no less eager for the fray, and at the close of his council-of-war, and contrary to its decision, Kapudan Pacha sailed to meet the enemy. [10]
In desperation he went inside and climbed to the roof, where he could see the circle of the enemy. [11]
You know as well as I do that he is our enemy. [10]

Short sentences using enemy

The enemy were totally demoralized. [5]
My tongue is my enemy. [2]
You're my enemy forever! [2]
At last our enemy. [2]
Had an enemy destroyed them? [13]
The enemy hasn't come yet! [10]
The enemy retreats. [11]

Sentences containing enemy two or more times

By this he would serve the enemy more effectively than the enemy is able to serve himself. [7]
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]
A third of the Pharanites were to march forward against the enemy, drumming and trumpeting, and then retreat as far as the watch-tower as the enemy approached over the plain. [10]
Upon subsequent information that the enemy were still operating in the vicinity of Winchester and Martinsburg, you were directed to move against the enemy. [7]
Monsieur Soury says romance is the mortal enemy of history; but this sentence may have no more justice than the one with which I think myself justified in replying: Landscape painting is the mortal enemy of botany. [10]
In England the natural enemy of the rabbit is detested and persecuted; in the Bluff region the natural enemy of the rabbit is honored, and his person is sacred. [5]
The patriarch is my enemy, the enemy of our house, and you--I do not say it to offend you--you overheard what he was saying last night, and probably gathered much important information, some of which may concern me and my family. [10]
Mr. Bernard had made up his mind, that, come what might, enemy or no enemy, live or die, he would solve the mystery of Elsie Venner, sooner or later. [6]
The enemy will learn of Wright's arrival, and then the difficulty will be to unite Wright and Hunter south of the enemy before he will recross the Potomac. [7]
The first officer has seen a man try to escape from his enemy by getting behind a tree; but the enemy sent his boomerang sailing into the sky far above and beyond the tree; then it turned, descended, and killed the man. [5]

More example sentences with the word enemy in them

He is also your enemy--the enemy of all work- peoples. [9]
His worst enemy, your brother, would probably sacrifice himself for his welfare sooner than I. [10]
The Roman attacks you with naked weapons, but you slink in the dark, like a scorpion, and try to sting your enemy in the heel. [10]
So, even though you will lose the joy of revenge upon a hated enemy, forget what has happened, as I did, and maintain your former affectionate companionship. [10]
Which one do you want me to make my enemy by telling him or her that the other isn't good enough? [4]
I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. [7]
This presented (or would present when McDowell and Sumner should be gone) a great temptation to the enemy to turn back from the Rappahannock and sack Washington. [7]
To offer resistance would have been madness, for even Hermon perceived, by the loud clanking of weapons around them, the greatly superior power of the enemy, and they were acting by the orders of the King. [10]
Mr. Davis's pamphlet would hardly be complete without a mysterious letter from an unnamed writer, whether a faithless friend, a disguised enemy, a secret emissary, or an injudicious alarmist, we have no means of judging for ourselves. [6]
Joan set to work at once, and concerted a plan with Guillaume de Flavy, captain of the city--a plan for a sortie toward evening against the enemy, who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the Oise, in the level plain. [5]
As Iberville stood with Frontenac near the palace of the Intendant, watching, he saw the enemy suddenly hurry forward. [11]
We are contending with an enemy who, as I understand, drives every able-bodied man he can reach into his ranks, very much as a butcher drives bullocks into the slaughter-pen. [7]
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 went out with a company from Hawkeye to the war, and was not wanting in courage, but he would have been a better soldier if he had been less engaged in contrivances for circumventing the enemy by strategy unknown to the books. [5]
We do not wish to be understood to be an enemy of the light traffic of human speech. [4]
The gate was wide open, and there sat-I knew him at once; who does not?--the Arch Enemy of mankind. [4]
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]
The New Englander, whose climate is at once his enemy and his tonic, always longs for the tropics, which to him are a region of romance, as Italy is to the German. [4]
Joan of Arc, who had never been defeated by the enemy, was defeated by her own King. [5]
Mena lashed his whip, the horses started forward and rushed with frantic plunges towards the fugitives, who however could not be brought to a standstill, or rallied by the king's voice--the enemy were close upon them, cutting them down. [10]
In a skirmish which took place this afternoon I lost one horse, The enemy lost two men killed and seven wounded. [7]
The little garrison, which had done no more than issue in sorties, was now throwing its full force on the enemy in a last desperate endeavour. [11]
At the Secundrabagh, where nearly two thousand of the enemy occupied a great stone house in a garden, the work of slaughter was continued until every man was killed. [5]
On Morgan's command, where it is now sent, as I understand, depends the question whether the enemy will get to the Ohio River in another place. [7]
Your last reports were written on the twentieth, and during all this time not only has no action been taken against the enemy or for the relief of the ancient capital, but according to your last report you have even retreated farther. [2]
Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
The Five Forks were barricaded by the enemy and carried by Devin's division of cavalry. [7]
All their faces were as serene as if all this were happening at home awaiting peaceful encampment, and not within sight of the enemy before an action in which at least half of them would be left on the field. [2]
The good Horus went out to fight against Seth, the murderer of his father, and the horrible enemy wounded Horus in the eye in the struggle; but the son of Osiris conquered, for good always conquers evil. [10]
Everything was looking well, and yet it was plain that one vigorous and determined enemy might eventually succeed in overthrowing all her plans. [5]
Get your force well in hand and stand on the defensive, guarding against a movement of the enemy either back toward Strasburg or toward Franklin, and await further orders, which will soon be sent you. [7]
It works doubly, weakening the enemy and strengthening us. [7]
So energetically do we pursue this aim that after crossing an unfordable river we burn the bridges to separate ourselves from our enemy, who at the moment is not Bonaparte but Buxhowden. [2]
By and by we came in sight of the enemy. [5]
But scarcely had we begun to move, when the expected troops from Leyderdorp pressed forward, their loud San Jago resounding far and wide, while at the same time the old enemy rose from the ditch and attacked us. [10]
Exclusive of the water line, you are now nearer to Richmond than the enemy is, by the route that you can and he must take. [7]
A favorite one was to make a moccasined person tread in the tracks of the moccasined enemy, and thus hide his own trail. [5]
The man who was to have had a packed church to hear him expose and denounce the common enemy had but a handful to see him buried. [5]
Even the enemy was the same as at Austerlitz and Friedland--yet the terrible stroke of his arm had supernaturally become impotent. [2]
On one hand was the enemy, on the other the water, with the shore half a mile distant. [11]
The only difference was that the Russian army moved voluntarily, with no such threat of destruction as hung over the French, and that the sick Frenchmen were left behind in enemy hands while the sick Russians left behind were among their own people. [2]
What I said was that if the public thought I was fool enough to make it our enemy, the public might be d---d (begging your honor's pardon). [4]
They said it was rumoured that the enemy were advancing in our direction, from over Hyde's prairie. [5]
Yet the thirst was on him; his enemy had him by the throat again, was dragging him down. [11]
And still there was no sign of the treacherous enemy that lurked about us. [9]
Here, he knew, was his greatest enemy where David was concerned, and yet this pretty Saint Elizabeth was wearing a fine turquoise ring with a poke bonnet, in a very worldly fashion. [11]
The trouble, however, was genuine enough, Virginia's rival paper seized upon the chance to humiliate its enemy, and presently words were passed back and forth until nothing was left to write but a challenge. [5]
Twice Detricand's hand was gashed slightly, and then he pinioned the wrist of his enemy, and tripped him up. [11]
But the enemy was evidently delayed, and Ephraim easily perceived the cause of their diminished speed; for the road constantly grew softer and the narrow wheels of the chariots cut deeply into it and perhaps sank to the axles. [10]
Ahead, the enemy was already visible. [2]
Still, if it was a total rout of the enemy, I am puzzled to know why the Richmond and Fredericksburg railroad was not seized again, as you say you have all the railroads but the Richmond and Fredericksburg. [7]
I am indeed very grateful to the brave men who have been struggling with the enemy in the field, to their noble commanders who have directed them, and especially to our Maker. [7]
Then he ordered us to march round the ditch and attack the enemy on the flank. [10]
My last attempt upon Richmond was to get McClellan, when he was nearer there than the enemy was, to run in ahead of him. [7]
He drew himself up, and appeared to measure his visitor as a swordsman would his enemy. [11]
He looked me up and down in a flash, like a searchlight playin' on an enemy ship, and then he smiled. [11]
In this peaceful unison with yielding nature, I was a little taken aback to find that a new enemy had turned up. [4]
Seeing their enemy unexpectedly the French fell into confusion and stopped short from the sudden fright, but then they resumed their flight, abandoning their comrades who were farther behind. [2]
Sawing off stumps under the water, knocking poisonous snakes by scores from the branches, while the river rose and rose and rose, and the rain crept by inches under their tent flies, and the enemy walked the parapet of Vicksburg and laughed. [9]
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]
I had received two slight wounds, and I had not touched my enemy. [11]
The enemy lost two men, both shot dead. [5]
The Second and Twenty-fourth Corps captured forts, guns, and prisoners from the enemy, but I cannot tell the numbers. [7]
But as it turns out, just at that moment a third enemy rises before us--namely the Orthodox Russian soldiers, loudly demanding bread, meat, biscuits, fodder, and whatnot! [2]
We talked our trouble over together, which was natural, for rivals become brothers when a common affliction assails them and a common enemy bears off the victory. [5]
If half our troops were in Philadelphia, the enemy could take it, because he would not fear to leave the other half in his rear; but with the whole of them here, he dares not leave them in his rear. [7]
Nor had Phips told Bucklaw of Gering's coming; so that when the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow entered Port de la Planta, Bucklaw himself, as he bore out in a small sail-boat, did not guess that he was likely to meet a desperate enemy. [11]
I went always to the front, where the fighting was thickest, to be remote from you in order that you might not see and be discouraged by the things I did to the enemy. [5]
It mattered not to the enemy, who still remained in the segment of the circle where they first fought, whether it was man or woman who crossed this zone of fire. [11]
It is important to the enemy that such a force shall not take shape and grow and thrive in the South, and in precisely the same proportion it is important to us that it shall. [7]
She had courage to show an enemy her aversion, and she did not fear Charmian enough to pursue a different course. [10]
I'd do much to prove myself no enemy. [11]
It is possible to love someone dear to you with human love, but an enemy can only be loved by divine love. [2]
Iberville, too proud to give his enemy one moment of athletic trifling, ran in on him. [11]
I want especially to excite the Achaemenidae against our enemy. [10]
She knew him to be Valmond's enemy, and she had no idea of sparing him. [11]
It was mean to be glad about it, but it is the way we are made; I could not have been gladder if it had been my enemy that had suffered this misfortune. [5]
We cannot go to battle without an enemy. [10]
They are asking to attack and making plans of all kinds, but as soon as one gets to business nothing is ready, and the enemy, forewarned, takes measures accordingly. [2]
It was singular to ask his enemy that he should see his papers handed to Count Frontenac if he were killed, but it was characteristic of him. [11]
Up to that time I had been every Egyptian's friend, and now I was the enemy of the best men in the nation. [10]
Before he got through with it he was claiming that the enemy had flung a building at him. [5]
And worse than this, it was discovered that the last grand charge the engine had made upon the enemy had broken the fore-and-aft shaft of the driving-wheel! [5]
The reason for this was inexplicable (unless he wished to show that he, too, could have an opinion), but he urged that at this point the army should unite and there await the enemy. [2]
In front of this position, they say, a fortified outpost was set up on the Shevardino mound to observe the enemy. [2]
The enemy appeared this morning and then retired, with the intention of drawing us on. [7]
To think that this fort on the island should be in the hands of the enemy. [10]
Phips did not think that any ship would venture against them so near Boston, and could not believe the Maid of Provence an enemy. [11]
At length, when they were come to some Indian mounds, they found a picket of three, companies of the force which had reached the flat the day before, and had been sent down to prevent the enemy from obstructing further the stream below the fleet. [9]
No sooner had they done so than they set up a loud outcry, and behaved as if the enemy had invaded the land again. [10]
While the Turks therefore prepared to repel a great army from that side, Kisell attacked with his ten thousand men, Ebersbraught sallied out and fell upon the Turks in the trenches, all the enemy on that side were slain or drowned, or put to flight. [4]
When he finished there had been cheering, but in the quiet instant that followed the cheering, a habitant got up--a weird, wilful fellow who had a reputation for brag, yet who would not have hurt an enemy save in wild passion. [11]
In that case, theory suggests that, while the enemy concentrates at that point, advantages can be gained by crossing smaller forces at other points to cut off his lines, destroy his communication, and capture his rear-guards, outposts, etc. [7]
Would it not, then, be much less painful to have the question decided by mutual friends some time before, than to snarl and quarrel until the day of election, and then both be beaten by the common enemy? [7]
Start half of them to Harrisburg, and the enemy will turn upon and beat the remaining half, and then reach Harrisburg before the part going there, and beat it too when it comes. [7]
But at last their supplies ran out and starvation began its work; more fell by hunger than by the missiles of the enemy. [5]
It would lose the whole North, while the common enemy would still carry the whole South. [7]
That is just the way in this world; an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. [5]
In Philip's absence the valiant governor-general of the duchy, aided by the influence and courage of the Comtesse Chantavoine, had thus far saved it from dismemberment, in spite of attempted betrayals by Damour the Intendant, who still remained Philip's enemy. [11]
I stood between the trees and the foe, and kept hundreds and thousands of the enemy at bay when they were thirsting for your blood. [5]

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