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Sentences starting with fort

Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth. [5]
Fort Henry had fallen, and Grant was even then moving to besiege Donelson. [9]
Fort Sumter is certainly battered down and utterly useless to the enemy, and it is believed here, but not entirely certain, that both Sumter and Fort Wagner are occupied by our forces. [7]
Fort Ste. [11]

Sentences ending with fort

The toy men-o'-war, with sails set, ranging in front of the fort. [9]
Behind them again, with head shaking from one side to the other, travelled Macavoy; and they all marched away towards the Fort. [11]
Most of them were still in the Fort. [11]
In the morning we leave him there, and he has been there ever since--the only man at the Fort. [11]
My whole soul was out in the bay, pent up with the men in the fort. [9]
Do you run to the fort. [9]
In his letter to Queen Anne, written in 1616, he speaks of her as aged twelve or thirteen at the time of his captivity, several months before this visit to the fort. [4]
But there's nothing to be done to-night; for if we tell old Wind Driver, there'll be no sleeping at the Fort. [11]
I have not the slightest doubt that it will be the morale of our own army also, but at present the British are holding the fort. [9]
And then presently the roar would reach me, and answering puffs along the line of the fort. [9]

Short sentences using fort

Were we near the fort? [9]
Was the fort taken? [9]
It happened at her fort. [5]
It was called Fort Hill. [4]
Passing principal fort. [5]
At Fort Ste. [11]

Sentences containing fort two or more times

He had been useful to the Chief Trader at the Fort in the early days, and having the run of the Fort and the reach of his knife, was little likely to discontinue his adherence. [11]
Iberville was told that he was at one of the other forts along the shore: either Fort Rupert on the east, a hundred and twenty miles away, or at Fort Albany, ninety miles to the north and west. [11]
When they had pitched upon a site for the fort, every man set to work, some to build the fort, others to pitch the tents, fell trees and make clapboards to reload the ships, others to make gardens and nets. [4]
Iberville then gave orders that the prisoners from the fort should be brought on board next morning, to be carried on to Fort Albany, which was yet for attack. [11]
In the yard of the Fort the grass have grown tall, and sprung in the cracks under the doors and windows; the Fort have not been use for a long time. [11]
The hood was left behind at Fort O'Glory, where it provoked the derision of the Methodist missionary who followed him; the sermon-case stayed at Fort O'Battle; and at last the surplice itself was put by at the Company's post at Yellow Quill. [11]
To now reinforce Fort Pickens before a crisis would be reached at Fort Sumter was impossible--rendered so by the near exhaustion of provisions in the latter-named fort. [7]
The national thanks are tendered by the President to Admiral Farragut and Major-General Canby, for the skill and harmony with which the recent operations in Mobile Harbor and against Fort Powell, Fort Gaines, and Fort Morgan were planned and carried into execution. [7]

More example sentences with the word fort in them

At the fort you surrendered before we had a chance to fight. [11]
Starvation was not yet upon the garrison, and ere it would be reached Fort Pickens might be reinforced. [7]
Think Fort Monroe would be acceptable. [7]
As the day wore on to afternoon a blue haze--harbinger of autumn--settled over fort and forest. [9]
I had stood within the fort watching him. [11]
And then: "I wish I could see Mister Moultrie in his fort, and the fleet. [9]
Burgomaster Van Swieten's wife had heard from her own husband, that the Englishmen, without making any resistance, had surrendered the beautiful new fort of Valkenburg and taken to their heels, at the mere sight of the Spaniards. [10]
It is in width, from Fort Adams on the left bank of the Mississippi to the bank of Rapides Parish, a distance of about sixty miles. [5]
But as the whites were protected by the fort, and the Indians were treacherous by nature, it was decided that the latter might use the hard missiles. [4]
He says the whites left their stone fort before he and Lieut. [5]
Nearer the stockade, where the keepers of the fort might venture out at times, a more orderly growth met the eye. [9]
One bitter day, when the sun smiled mockingly on the powdered common, a horseman was perceived on the Fort Chartres road. [9]
In later days, when Fort O'Angel was invaded by settlers, he had his time of greatest importance. [11]
But to the west is a shore, and on it stands a fort and a few detached houses. [11]
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]
Several of them were caught and confined in the fort, and, guarded, were conducted to the morning and evening prayers. [4]
But the years went, and there came a man to Fort Pentecost who knew not Athabasca. [11]
The king himself went to bed in the Fort that night, Pierre and his bodyguard--by name Noel, Little Babiche, Corvette, Jose, and Parfaite --its only occupants, singing joyfully: "Did yees iver hear tell o' Long Barney, That come from the groves o' Killarney? [11]
Yes, out we went through the harbour of Kingston, beyond the splendid defences of Port Royal and the men-of-war there, past the Palisadoes and Rock Fort, and away to the place of treasure-trove. [11]
The Fort was well-nigh tenantless, for the half-breeds also had gone after buffalo, and only the trader, a clerk, and a half-breed cook were left. [11]
And presently, as we strayed down the shore we came upon a strange sight, the same being a huge fort rising from the waterside, all overgrown with brush and saplings and tall weeds. [9]
But their wiliness was useless, for Macavoy's double-and-twist came near to lessening the Indian population of Fort O'Angel. [11]
The Naval Brigade was to go to Fort Monroe without trouble to the government, and must so go or not at all. [7]
Note.-The above communication was delivered to me at Fort Monroe at 4.30 P.M. February 2 by Lieutenant-Colonel Babcock, of General Grant's staff. [7]
But Pretty Pierre was at Fort Luke when the battle occurred, and, before and after, he sifted the business thoroughly. [11]
Within the fort was a big common dotted with forest trees, where such cattle as had been saved browsed on the scanty grass. [9]
He had, for want of a more convenient punishment, promptly knocked down Jeff Hyde, the sometime bully of the fort, for appropriating a bundle of furs belonging to a French half-breed, Gaspe Toujours. [11]
General Wool still walked the corridors, inexpansive, with Fort McHenry on his shoulders, and Baltimore in his breeches-pocket, and his courteous aid again pressed upon me his kind offices. [6]
My only mirror used to be a stream of water in summer," she added, "and a corner of a looking-glass got from the Hudson's Bay fort in the winter. [11]
They had shut up the inhabitants of a village and a Turkish garrison in an old fort near Jericho, and were besieging them. [5]
He took me up into a private room in the fort, where you were; and the surgeon, who was there at the time, said that your chances were as slim as any man's he had ever seen. [9]
She had rode two hundred miles from the south-west, and was making for Fort Micah, sixty miles farther north. [11]
A factor of twenty years before, in recognition of the chief's merits and in reward of his services, had presented him with a pair of epaulettes, left in the Fort by some officer in Her Majesty's service. [11]
Ridley, the chief trader, and myself have come to the Fort on our way to the Mackenzie River. [11]
Then you come to Vincennes on the Wabash, Fort St. Vincent, the English and Canadians called it, for there were a few of the latter who had settled in Kaskaskia since the English occupation. [9]
The Indians ran to their lodges for spears and hatchets, though the weapons of many were within the Fort, and soon they were about the place, shouting in impotent rage. [11]
The Englishman belonged to the Hudson's Bay Company, but they have heard nothing down here at Fort Ste. [11]
So returning safe to the Fort, once more staied the pinnas her flight for England, which til his returne could not set saile, so extreme was the weather and so great the frost. [4]
I ran back to the fort, and when I had gotten my drum the three companies were falling into line, the men murmuring in undertones among themselves. [9]
The Hebrews seemed to the commander too superior a force to fight, but duty required him to hold the fort until the arrival of the reinforcements he had requested. [10]
When he came to that scene in the Fort, the three men sitting, targets for his bullets,--he softened the details greatly. [11]
I have been to Quebec, to St. John, to Fort Garry, to Detroit, up in Maine and down to New York. [11]
A runner came to me with the tidings, where I was building a fort on the Mississippi, and I took Willis here and Saunders, and came. [9]
It suits him to go to Fort Desire. [11]
If you're going to Fort O'Battle because you've set your fancy there, you'd better go back now. [11]
Pierre had travelled to Fort O'Angel almost wholly because he had Tim Macavoy in his mind: in it Mrs. Whelan had only an incidental part; his plans journeyed beyond her and her lost consort. [11]
I'm going on to Fort Desire now. [11]
I'd ridden in to Fort Desire from another duty, a matter of a hundred miles, whin the major says to me, 'There's murder been done at Moose Horn. [11]
I had nothing to do; I knew the shortest way to Fort Micah, every foot--and then it is good to be ready for all things. [11]
Your father is to come to me, not I to him, nor yet to your fort, neither will I bite at such a bait; as for the Monacans, I can revenge my own injuries. [4]
The Pequots used to come swarming up the hill, with hideous war-whoops, attacking the fort on all sides with great noise and a shower of balls. [4]
Sometimes we come to a settler's cabin and see it all smoking; sometimes to a fort and find only a heap of bones--and other things! [11]
By the same title which South Carolina asserted to Fort Sumter, Florida would have challenged as her own the Gibraltar of the Gulf, and Virginia the Ehrenbreitstein of the Chesapeake. [6]
Up to the time of the half-breed's coming the Irishman had been the most outstanding man at Fort O'Angel, and was sure of a good-natured homage, acknowledged by him with a jovial tyranny. [11]
The road led through the desert, and at the end of a few hours' rapid march they reached the first fort, called the Fortress of Seti. [10]
The Indian, Cloud-in-the-Sky, though by word never thanking his rescuer, could not be induced to leave the fort, except on some mission with which Jaspar Hume was connected. [11]
Such years were those that followed the double-shotted demand for the surrender of Fort Sumter. [5]
But even at this rattling gait I think we changed watches three times in Fort Adams reach, which is five miles long. [5]
A half-hour after this Pierre left Laforce on the crest of the hill above the Fort, and did not turn to go down till he had seen the other pass within the house with the broken shutter. [11]
To think that this fort on the island should be in the hands of the enemy. [10]
The garrison of this fort held it unmolested. [11]
And who should this be but Captain Willing's own brother, escaped from the fort, where he had been a prisoner. [9]
Nothing since, and they were going on--on to Fort Providence to spend the winter--for his health--his lungs. [11]
But now that they were facing the business of their journey, his voice got soft and gentle, as it did before the Fort, when he grappled his foes two by two and three by three, and wrung them out. [11]
About Fort Guidon they still gave him his title, and because of his guilelessness, sincerity, and generosity, Pierre called him "The Simple King. [11]
It gets hot there, but if you go down to Fort Yuma you will find it hotter. [5]
All the morning there were "inspections" to be attended, and nowhere could there be seen a more agreeable mingling of war and love than the spacious, tree-planted interior of the fort presented on such occasions. [4]
Besides all else, there was in the Fort the thing which the gods made last to humble the pride of men--there was rum. [11]
The next day there was commotion and excitement at Fort Luke. [11]
The expedition found there no one of the colony (whether it was fifty or fifteen the writers disagree), nothing but the bones of one man where the plantation had been; the houses were unhurt, but overgrown with weeds, and the fort was defaced. [4]
I heard that their High Mightinesses had given Paul Jones the use of the Texel fort for his wounded and his prisoners, and thither I ran. [9]
These also saw the White Hands bearing upon the Fort, and hurried forward. [11]
The Indians know the trail across Labrador to Fort Ungava. [11]
We met in the Spaniards' country, where you killed my servant; and again at Fort Rupert, you remember. [11]
Anne is in the south, and Fort Comfort, where we go, is far north. [11]
The lieutenants imprisoned the Rajah in his own fort. [5]
This was in the presence of several petty officers and Indians and woodsmen at the Fort. [11]
The colony abandoned the pleasant Non-such and returned to the open air at West's Fort. [4]
The reply of the mutineers was to row into Sheerness harbour and take away with them eight gunboats lying there, each of which fired a shot at the fort, as if to announce that the mutineers were now the avowed enemies of the government. [11]
In the fort the men stood to their guns, their faces flushed with staring at the burning houses. [9]
In the morning The Man was found dead in my little fort, at the foot of the wall. [11]
That was how the king and Pierre met her in the yard of Fort Comfort one evening of early autumn. [11]
He conspired with the Indians to seize the Fort and stores, and kill me if I resisted. [11]
I jumped from the horse, and told her that she must push on alone to the Fort, that Tophet could not carry both, that I should be in no danger. [11]
Yes, here was the gate, and now we were in the fort, and an empire was gained, never to be lost again. [9]
The pressure within the fort, like a flood, opened the gates of it, despite the sturdily disapproving figure of a young man who stood silent under the sentry box, leaning on his Deckard. [9]
The gates of the fort were shut, and the captains summoned. [9]
And when from the fort they saw us coming across the fields they opened the gates in astonishment, and on hearing the news gave themselves over to the wildest rejoicing. [9]
We are having the Fort Pillow affair thoroughly investigated; and such investigation will probably show conclusively how the truth is. [7]
Flee ye to the Fort of Refuge. [11]
The people of the fort had said they had never seen him so irascible, yet so gentle; so uneasy, yet so reserved; so stern about the mouth, yet so kind about the eyes as he had been since Hume had gone on this desperate errand. [11]
And from within the fort came forth a hubbub,--cries and scuffling, orders, oaths, and shouts. [9]
It--it was in the fort at Vincennes. [9]
They were passing the Fort at an angle. [11]
He found in the Fort an old sword and belt, left by some Hudson's Bay Company's man, and these he furbished up and wore. [11]
There, indeed, was the fleet, but far away, like toy ships on the water, and the bit of a fort perched on the sandy edge of an island. [9]
All at once the first gun of the four years' cannonade hurled its ball against the walls of Fort Sumter. [6]
None stirred save the few Indians left in the place, and these were brought before Clark in the fort, sullen and defiant, and put in the guard-house there. [9]
Then there was the evening promenading on the broad verandas and out upon the miniature pier, or at sunset by the water-batteries of the old fort --such a peaceful old fortress as it is. [4]
He went to the door of the Fort, opened it, entered, shut it, locked it softly, and put the key in his pocket. [11]

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