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The first army, with which was the Emperor, occupied the fortified camp at Drissa; the second army was retreating, trying to effect a junction with the first one from which it was said to be cut off by large French forces. [2]
He dismounted and went up into the porch of a large country house which had remained intact between the Russian and French forces. [2]
Such is the way in which the Germans seem to define the word "rest"; that is to say, they rest a member by recreating, recuperating, restore its forces. [5]
Even Sally Grover was powerless to prevent the inevitable, and the touch of her hand seemed the signal for the release of the pent-up forces. [9]
He had them trained on that portion of the advancing infantry of Ali Wad Hei not yet covered by his own forces. [11]
Having arranged matters thus, Denisov and Dolokhov intended, without reporting matters to the higher command, to attack and seize that convoy with their own small forces. [2]
Some one broke through the crowd at my back, rushed past me, and stood between the two forces. [11]
It was as though he, too, were seeking to deflect and guide a force --the Force of forces. [9]
It is not subdued by all the roads and rails and scientific forces. [4]
And now, while strangers from near and far throng into town, drawn by the sensational struggle which is to culminate in battle to-day, Mr. Crewe is marshalling his forces. [9]

Short sentences using forces

Perpetual Forces, 297. [6]

Sentences containing forces two or more times

All Napoleon's allies suddenly became his enemies and their forces advanced against the fresh forces he raised. [2]
Their appearance was greeted by desperate discharges of artillery from the forces under Ali Wad Hei, who had received word of their coming two hours before, and had accordingly redisposed his attacking forces. [11]
If many simultaneously and variously directed forces act on a given body, the direction of its motion cannot coincide with any one of those forces, but will always be a mean--what in mechanics is represented by the diagonal of a parallelogram of forces. [2]
In view of all this information, when the enemy has scattered his forces in large detachments, and with Napoleon and his Guards in Moscow, is it possible that the enemy's forces confronting you are so considerable as not to allow of your taking the offensive? [2]
Ordered, That the 22d day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and the naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces. [7]

More example sentences with the word forces in them

You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! [2]
In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
I cannot give you a new command, because we have no forces except such as already have commanders. [7]
Here the forces would have been fighting for him; the trend was towards the elevation of the standards of living and the wider rights of labour, to the amelioration of hard conditions of life among the poor. [11]
To Jim the world became a sea of maddening forces which buffeted him; a whirlpool of fire in which his brain was tortured, his mind was shrivelled up; a vast army rending itself, each man against the other. [11]
The forces at work in a human intelligence to bring harmony out of its discordant movements are as mysterious, as miraculous, we might truly say, as those which give shape and order to the confused materials out of which habitable worlds are evolved. [6]
He joined forces with Puss in making clever fun of the booby Dutch, which Stephen was wise enough to take good-naturedly. [9]
That Napoleon agreed with Mouton, and that the army retreated, does not prove that Napoleon caused it to retreat, but that the forces which influenced the whole army and directed it along the Mozhaysk (that is, the Smolensk) road acted simultaneously on him also. [2]
Doubtless local uprisings will for a time continue to occur, but these can be met by detachments and local forces of our own, and will ere long tire out of themselves. [7]
The hostess succeeds who is able to excite this general play of all the forces at the table, even using the silent but not non-elastic material as cushions, if one may continue the figure. [4]
Ambition and love were the moving forces of my life. [10]
The forces that were gathered by Peter Stuyvesant for the expedition to avenge upon the Swedes the defeat at Fort Casimir, and their appearance on the march, give some notion of the military prowess of the Dutch. [4]
She would be weary now, and worn with this long captivity, her forces impaired; despondent, perhaps, as knowing there was no hope. [5]
I like to watch the gobbler maneuvering his forces in a grasshopper-field. [4]
The district, too, was largely rural, and therefore anti-consolidation, and the inability of the Worthington forces to get their bill through had made it apparent that Jethro Bass was as powerful as ever. [9]
Her fair skin was fairer than ever, but it was delicately faded, giving her a look of pensiveness, while yet there was that in her carriage and at her mouth which suggested strength and will and new forces at work in her. [11]
It was neither vulgar nor cowardly to pass quietly from forces making for ruin, and so avert ruin and secure happiness. [11]
Let the new volunteer forces be brought forward as fast as possible, and especially into the camps on the two sides of the river here. [7]
According to this view the power of historical personages, represented as the product of many forces, can no longer, it would seem, be regarded as a force that itself produces events. [2]
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]
He was levying upon the vital forces remaining in him, which, distributed naturally, might cover a year or so, to give him here and now a few moments of unnatural strength for the completion of a hopeless struggle. [11]
Our enormous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon's, were concentrated in one place, the troops inspired by the Emperors' presence were eager for action. [2]
The enemy's forces under General Anderson now opposing General McDowell's advance have as their line of supply and retreat the road to Richmond. [7]
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe--only two--the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. [5]
After them in turn came the forces of the Commander-in-Chief, which joined on in the rear of Havelock's force. [5]
Let me know to what point on the river you will send your forces, so as to provide immediately for transportation. [7]
As an offset to this, the Jethro forces gain on the extreme right, where the Honorable Peleg Hartington is made President of the Senate, etc. [9]
Now having come to the army, he informed Kutuzov of the Emperor's displeasure at the poor success of our forces and the slowness of their advance. [2]
They soon began to perceive depths in her that they had not suspected; and then her manifest sincerity and the rocklike steadfastness of her convictions were forces which cowed levity, and it could not maintain its self-respect in their presence. [5]
His next letter to Goodman is illuminating--the urgency of his need for funds opposed to that conscientiousness which was one of the most positive forces of Mark Twain's body spiritual. [5]
It is easy to calculate about the regular forces, but the danger is from the unexpected "raids" and the bushwhackers and guerrillas. [4]
It forces us to ask: Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? [7]
But by the time this letter, which proved that the real relation of the forces had already made itself felt in Petersburg, was dispatched, Kutuzov had found himself unable any longer to restrain the army he commanded from attacking and a battle had taken place. [2]
But from the time of his approach with the Roman army and the auxiliary troops of the Ethnarch of Judea, nothing more was learned of him or of Antipater, who commanded the forces of Hyrkanus; every one talked constantly of the Roman general Antony. [10]
To them the time had come when the reactionary forces of Manitou must receive a check. [11]
Each of the three armies had its own commander in chief, but there was no supreme commander of all the forces, and the Emperor did not assume that responsibility himself. [2]
Both forces had thought that nothing could live in that gray-brown veld, and no effort at first was made to rescue or take it. [11]
Yet to supply this conception various historians take forces of different kinds, all of which are incommensurate with the movement observed. [2]
Now, what I think is, that you should provide to retain your hold where you are, certainly, and bring the rest with you personally, and make a vigorous effort to destroy the enemy's forces in this vicinity. [7]
Poor planetary foundlings, they have known hard treatment at the hands of the brute forces of nature, from the control of which they are soon to be set free. [6]
What tremendous forces they are, if two subjects of them come within range! [6]
He says: "Both these views are equally well founded, for only the united effort of the two forces could insure a possibility of victory. [10]
It was not these matters that vexed him now, but the underlying forces of life set in motion by the blow which killed a fellow-man. [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]
Blind forces in themselves; shaping thoughts as they shaped features and battled for the moulding of constitution and the mingling of temperament. [6]
As if measuring themselves and preparing for the coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing. [2]
I consider that them effects is on account of the superior refragability, as you may say, of the sun's diramic combination with the lymphatic forces of the perihelion of Jubiter. [5]
The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
Some part of their forces attacked Harper's Ferry at dark last evening, and are still in sight this morning. [7]
You all know, the world knows, the forces and the resources the public agents have brought into employment to sustain a government against which there has been brought not one complaint of real injury committed against society at home or abroad. [7]
In them worked the whole forces of his nature; they were crucibles wherein every thought and emotion were fused. [11]
It lay between the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction was finally effected across the Missouri neck of land; but the island being itself joined to that neck now, the wide river is without obstruction. [5]
She was grasping the truth, when suddenly there came, in inward constriction, a hardening of gentle forces within her breast. [13]
American participation meant the triumph of the forces of reaction. [9]
In its bowels the theological forces have been heaving and tossing, rumbling, thundering and quaking, boiling, and weltering and flaming and smoking for ages. [5]
A sense of the striving and the suffering deeply possessed him; and this grew the more intense as he gained some knowledge of the forces at work-forces of pity, of destruction, of perdition, of salvation. [8]
I had not the strength to fight the forces around me. [11]
The curtains of the stage waved continually by the repelled forces that were given to them, which caused Leos to behold Ambulinia leaning upon the chair of Elfonzo. [5]
The light of the sky above was a soft radiance, as of a happy Arcadian land; the fire of the toil beneath was the output of human striving, an intricate interweaving of vital forces which, like some Titanic machine, wrought out in pain--a vast destiny. [11]
They were at the same time obliged to exercise the greatest caution, and collected their forces of young men in the valleys that lay hidden in the long range of coast-hills. [10]
Besides, even if the naval battle were really lost, the powerful army, which is far superior to Octavianus's forces, still remains. [10]
Bedford was on the march against us with his new army by this time, and on the 25th of July the hostile forces faced each other and made preparation for battle; but Bedford's good judgment prevailed, and he turned and retreated toward Paris. [5]
I suppose it's the laboratory that attracts me here, as it did my father, playing with the ancient forces of the world in these Arcadian surroundings--Arcady without beauty or Arcadians. [11]
The boundaries of the interests of these workers were limited, but their souls were commingled with other souls bound to them by the formalities; and every minute of their days, every atom of their forces, were moving round one light, the light upon the hearthstone. [11]
All winter long the forces of chemistry will be mustering under ground, repairing the losses, calling up the reserves, getting new strength from my surface-fertilizing bounty, and making ready for the spring campaign. [4]
Let me order the forces back. [5]
Bob looked into the flames and waited, and Cynthia stood in the entry fighting this second great battle which had come upon her while her forces were still spent with that other one. [9]
He called into the field such military and naval forces, unauthorized by the existing laws, as seemed necessary. [7]
On the contrary, the energetic action of that battery led the French to suppose that here--in the center--the main Russian forces were concentrated. [2]
His world was the battlefield from which he directed the forces of the great corporation which he served, and the cherished vision of a son in whom he could confide his plans, upon whose aid and counsel he could lean, was gone forever. [9]
But at last the battle was done, and the forces retired with weaker and weaker threatenings and grumblings, and peace resumed her sway. [5]
The operations under the act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, detailed in the report of the Provost Marshal General. [7]
It is believed that upon the repossession of the country by the Federal forces the Indians will readily cease all hostile demonstrations and resume their former relations to the government. [7]
She had made that speech by mere instinct, not suspecting what tremendous forces were hidden in it, and there was none to tell her what she had done. [5]
Lastly he said that he, Joshua, would be placed in command of the Hebrew forces and, as regent, mediate and settle disputes between them and the Egyptians whenever it seemed necessary. [10]
Call the accident that has kept you out of this despicable work a stroke of good fortune, but beware how you look down upon those whose oath forces them to crush out every human feeling from their hearts! [10]
The President desires that General McDowell retain the command of the Department of the Rappahannock and of the forces with which he moves forward. [7]
That rule says that an attacker should concentrate his forces in order to be stronger than his opponent at the moment of conflict. [2]
True to her temperament, she did not look for the downfall of the forces opposed to him. [9]
And then Victoria summoned her forces, and turned to him again. [9]
Disloyalty before unsuspected suddenly became bold, and treason astonished the world by bringing at once into the field military forces superior in number to the standing army of the United States. [7]
Admirably as you succeeded in doing so, it forces your work out of the sphere of reality, whose boundary I never before saw you cross by a single inch. [10]
Are the forces still moving north through the gap at Front Royal and between you and there? [7]
But such undercurrents still existed among the people and gathered new forces ready to manifest themselves just as strangely, unexpectedly, and at the same time simply, naturally, and forcibly. [2]
In the border States, so called,--in fact, the middle States,--there are those who favor a policy which they call "armed neutrality"; that is, an arming of those States to prevent the Union forces passing one way, or the disunion the other, over their soil. [7]
Your friends will stand by you, the world will be with you, if you do nothing rash, nothing that forces it to babble and scold. [11]
And yet I spoke but hoarsely then my thought, I groped amid a thousand forces there; Her understanding all my meaning caught, It was illumined in her atmosphere. [11]
The forces you speak of will be of no imaginable service if they cannot go forward with a little more expedition. [7]
And the judges, so long even as men only occupy the bench, will no doubt reverse it when the logical march of events forces upon them the question whether the wife may open her husband's letters. [4]
If the enemy should concentrate his forces at the place you have selected for a crossing, make it a feint and try another place. [7]
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]
He did not seem to appreciate who his visitor was, at any rate gave no sign of so doing, and the chief interest of the scene was the wide contrast between these leaders of spiritual and of material forces. [6]
Joan waited to see if the chief minister might wish to defend his position; but he was experienced and wise, and not a man to waste his forces where the current was against him. [5]
Mr. Speaker, I see I have but three minutes left, and this forces me to throw out one whole branch of my subject. [7]
But when she saw that Pierre's sacrilegious words had not exasperated the vicomte, and had convinced herself that it was impossible to stop him, she rallied her forces and joined the vicomte in a vigorous attack on the orator. [2]
And now, we said, we must have come to the end of these unparalleled developments of the forces of nature. [6]
She was that saddest of human beings, a victim of dual forces which so fought for mastery with each other that, while the struggle went on, the soul had no firm foothold anywhere. [11]
Why was the Russian army--which with inferior forces had withstood the enemy in full strength at Borodino--defeated at Krasnoe and the Berezina by the disorganized crowds of the French when it was numerically superior? [2]
Commander Stephen C. Rowan, for distinguished services in the waters of North Carolina, and particularly in the capture of Newbern, being in chief command of the naval forces. [7]
The Earl of Rosworme was sent to assist the Archduke Ferdinand, who was besieging Caniza; the Earl of Meldritch, with six thousand men, was sent to assist Georgio Busca against the Transylvanians; and the Duc de Mercoeur set out for France to raise new forces. [4]

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