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Sentences starting with generals

Generals on the staff, excited by the memory of the easy victory at Tarutino, urged Kutuzov to carry out Dorokhov's suggestion. [2]
Generals Parke, Wright, and Ord's lines are extending from the Appomattox to Hatcher's Run. [7]

Sentences ending with generals

Kutuzov here woke up, coughed heavily, and looked round at the generals. [2]
I don't pretend to judge military plans or the capacities of generals. [6]
Tushin appeared at the threshold and made his way timidly from behind the backs of the generals. [2]
And so, during the 10th, while Joan was slaving away at her plans and issuing order after order with tireless industry, the old-time consultations and arguings and speechifyings were going on among certain of the generals. [5]
I fear we shall at last find out that the difficulty is in our case rather than in particular generals. [7]
Then Miloradovich looked round significantly at the other generals. [2]
She gave that order to her generals. [5]
Denisov told him of the designs the large detachments had on the transport, of the message Petya had brought, and his own replies to both generals. [2]
A beatific smile of regret, repentance, and ecstasy beamed on M. de Beausset's face and he glided away to the other generals. [2]
Parole d'honneur, her letters make me see again the people amongst whom she moves,--the dukes and duchesses, the cardinals, bishops, and generals. [9]

Short sentences using generals

The generals bowed and retired. [2]

More example sentences with the word generals in them

They, the generals, would fight the battles, Joan would give the victory. [5]
The host followed with Marya Antonovna Naryshkina; then came ambassadors, ministers, and various generals, whom Peronskaya diligently named. [2]
It was a wise move, for he found Regnault de Chartres and some more of the King's pet rascals there trying their best to disperse the army, and crippling all the efforts of Joan's generals to head it for Orleans. [5]
The commanding generals, who have power to act on proceedings of courts-martial in such cases, are authorized in special cases to restore to duty deserters under sentence, when in their judgment the service will be thereby benefited. [7]
Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. [7]
The green plumes were worn by forty or fifty Austrian generals, the group opposite them were chiefly Knights of Malta and knights of a German order. [5]
The several divisions were commanded by the great Armagnac generals, La Hire, and Marshal de Boussac, the Sire de Retz, Florent d'Illiers, and Poton de Saintrailles. [5]
And yet this was the President who had conducted the war, whose generals had conquered the Confederacy. [9]
The generals were very much surprised, as any might tell from their faces. [5]
There they showed us no end of aged documents; some were signed by Popes, some by Tilly and other great generals, and one was a letter written and subscribed by Goetz von Berlichingen in Heilbronn in 1519 just after his release from the Square Tower. [5]
I was present upon most of these occasions, and saw again many faces which I have not seen for a quarter of a century; among them some well-beloved faces--those of our generals and that of Catherine Boucher (married, alas! [5]
The Comte de Turenne showed him into a big reception room where many generals, gentlemen-in-waiting, and Polish magnates--several of whom Balashev had seen at the court of the Emperor of Russia--were waiting. [2]
Old generals wanted to take Toulon, but one of their young colonels showed them how. [6]
The generals seemed to listen reluctantly to the difficult dispositions. [2]
The generals began to balk, privately, right away, but they only baffled and delayed her, and that for only four days. [5]
Rostov rode up to Bagration, reported to him, and then joined the adjutants listening to what the generals were saying. [2]
During his career there has been a sad laying on the shelf of old generals who could not keep up with the hurry, the fierceness and dashing of the new system; and among the number I presume has been my worthy house-mate, old Trotter. [4]
The generals re-formed them, but their numbers constantly decreased. [2]
Fabvier, not entering the tent, remained at the entrance talking to some generals of his acquaintance. [2]
In spite of the severe frost some hundred generals and staff officers in full parade uniform stood in front of the castle, as well as a guard of honor of the Semenov regiment. [2]
He also recognized the insanity of it--at least he though he did--and privately advised the generals to get around the order in some way. [5]
Behind these came the Grand Staff, all our great generals and famous names, and everybody was eager to get a sight of them. [5]
It was evident that Bob was blissfully unaware that hostilities between powers of no mean magnitude were about to begin; that the generals themselves were on the ground, and that he was holding treasonable parley with the enemy. [9]
The firing was still proceeding when officers, generals, and gentlemen-in-waiting came running out of the cathedral, and after them others in a more leisurely manner: caps were again raised, and those who had run to look at the cannon ran back again. [2]
There was a Standing Army, and he was the head of that; an Army of 114 privates under command of 27 Generals and a Field Marshal. [5]
The generals were soon dismissed, but I wasn't; nor Joan; for it was my turn to work, now. [5]
The ant has soldiers--battalions, regiments, armies; and they have their appointed captains and generals, who lead them to battle. [5]
Whenever she halted, she was presently surrounded by Ministers, Generals, Congressmen, and all manner of aristocratic, people. [5]
Then those same Senators smile at the self-constructed majors and generals and judges of the South! [5]
Joan's brother Jean said: "If you don't like what our generals do, why don't you go to the great wars yourself and better their work? [5]
In the first room you will find twelve or fifteen ladies and gentlemen of civilian quality; in the other one a dozen generals and ambassadors. [5]
And as to rank, they worship that, for they have long been used to generals and nobles. [5]
In the first place the historian describes the activity of individuals who in his opinion have directed humanity (one historian considers only monarchs, generals, and ministers as being such men, while another includes also orators, learned men, reformers, philosophers, and poets). [2]
As he stepped past the generals in the crowded hut, feeling embarrassed as he always was by the sight of his superiors, he did not notice the staff of the banner and stumbled over it. [2]
One day the Paladin was arrogantly criticizing the patriot generals of France and said: "Look at Dunois, Bastard of Orleans--call him a general! [5]
Instead of clothing our admirals and generals, for courts-martial and other public functions, in superb dress uniforms blazing with colour and gold, the Government would put them in swallow-tails and white cravats, and make them look like ambassadors and lackeys. [5]
Isn't it the old fashioned nation we're fighting, with its kings and emperors and generals that would crush the life and freedom out of them that need life. [9]
All the generals, officers, and soldiers of the French army knew it could not be done, because the flagging spirit of the troops would not permit it. [2]
Afterwards when one of the generals addressed Kutuzov asking whether he wished his caleche to be sent for, Kutuzov in answering unexpectedly gave a sob, being evidently greatly moved. [2]
He, the mightiest of generals, summoned the tempest and the waves, and they swallowed up the foe. [10]
A huge suite of generals rode behind him. [2]
A great crowd of generals gathered round him, and Count Rostopchin, who had come out from Moscow, joined them. [2]
For the glory of generals fades beside his glory. [9]
Whether feeling it necessary to make a sacrifice before abandoning the capital or guided by other, personal considerations, these generals seemed not to understand that this council could not alter the inevitable course of events and that Moscow was in effect already abandoned. [2]
He called the most important generals to him. [2]
Confederate generals in Mississippi were bewildered. [9]
Doctors came, and ministers, and lawyers; generals and majors, and captains and subalterns of the Revolution, to till their grants and to found families. [9]
There were cabinet ministers, ambassadors, admirals, generals, canons, Oxford professors, novelists, playwrights, poets, and a number of people equipped with rank and brains. [5]
It was a messenger from the King, bearing a note for Joan, which I read to her, saying he had reflected, and had consulted his other generals, and was obliged to ask her to remain at the head of the army and withdraw her resignation. [5]
I was interrupted many times by the arrival of different generals, aides, etc. [9]
All the artful maneuvers suggested by our generals meant fresh movements of the army and a lengthening of its marches, whereas the only reasonable aim was to shorten those marches. [2]
General Halleck has made the best provision he can for generals in Pennsylvania. [7]
Belliard began talking loudly and eagerly to the generals of the suite around him. [2]
The French generals lost touch with the Russian army of sixty thousand men, and according to Thiers it was only eventually found, like a lost pin, by the skill--and apparently the genius--of Murat. [2]
Malasha, who had long been expected for supper, climbed carefully backwards down from the oven, her bare little feet catching at its projections, and slipping between the legs of the generals she darted out of the room. [2]
The Union generals learned (common item in a siege) that the citizens of Vicksburg were eating mule meat. [9]
How do you learn that the rebel forces at Manassas are large and commanded by several of their best generals? [7]
To study the laws of history we must completely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements by which the masses are moved. [2]
This was made known to Generals Grant and Sherman, and assented to by them, and the particular corps for him designated. [7]
They were the Knights of the Golden Fleece and the princes, counts, barons and knights, generals and colonels whom the Emperor Charles had invited to the Trausnitz citadel to attend the approaching solemn ceremonial. [10]
Lord Roberts is Irish; and Sir William Butler; and Kitchener, I think; and a disproportion of the other prominent Generals are of Irish and Scotch breed-keeping up the traditions of Wellington, and Sir Colin Campbell of the Mutiny. [5]
Rostov went back into the hall and noticed that in the porch there were many officers and generals in full parade uniform, whom he had to pass. [2]
George I., an infant of eighteen, and a scraggy nest of foreign office holders, sit in the places of Themistocles, Pericles, and the illustrious scholars and generals of the Golden Age of Greece. [5]
The large group, in which were Prince Vasili and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat. [2]
I am not impressed that the danger is very great or imminent, but I will thank you to give Generals Rosecrans and Curtis, respectively, such orders as may turn their attention thereto and prevent as far as possible the apprehended disturbance. [7]
He also was ill, and our forces were depressed in consequence; for he had a power to inspire them not given to any other of our accomplished and admirable generals. [11]
The best generals I have known were, on the contrary, stupid or absent-minded men. [2]
The other generals, however, understood it and, leaving aside the question of Moscow, spoke of the direction the army should take in its retreat. [2]
Never in the history of the world were generals and admirals, statesmen and politicians so sensitive to or concerned about public opinion as they are today. [9]
One by one his plots had failed, until the day came when David advised Kaid to send him and his friends into the Soudan, with the punitive expedition under loyal generals. [11]
Next we have his Excellency the Minister of War, who holds sway over the royal armies--they consist of two hundred and thirty uniformed Kanakas, mostly Brigadier Generals, and if the country ever gets into trouble with a foreign power we shall probably hear from them. [5]
In attendance on him was the head of the imperial staff, Quartermaster General Prince Volkonski, as well as generals, imperial aides-de-camp, diplomatic officials, and a large number of foreigners, but not the army staff. [2]
She did have her doubts of her generals, and was entitled to them, for she was all for storm and assault, and they were for holding still and tiring the English out. [5]
I could not help watching the movements of this redoubtable old Hero, who, I'll warrant, has been the champion and safeguard of half the garrison towns in England, and fancying to myself how Bonaparte would have delighted in having such toast-and-butter generals to deal with. [4]
Every one had heard how Lincoln, on being told that Grant drank, remarked something to the effect that he would like to know what kind of whisky Grant used so that he might get some of it for his other generals. [5]
Three hours later he was the one subject of conversation in the world, the gilded generals and admirals and governors were discussing him, all the kings and queens and emperors had put aside their other interests to talk about him. [5]
One man said he had seen Ermolov ride past with some other generals, others said he must have returned home. [2]
Some of the generals, in low tones and in a strain very different from the way they had spoken during the council, communicated something to their commander in chief. [2]
There are many generals, and she can create more; but there is only one Standard-Bearer. [5]
She indicated the generals with a nod, and said: "My business is not with you. [5]
One of the generals who drove past was an acquaintance of the Rostovs', and Petya thought of asking his help, but came to the conclusion that that would not be a manly thing to do. [2]
One of the generals was reporting to him where the guns and prisoners had been captured. [2]
To the French generals the idea of trying to fight their way past those fortresses and lead the army into Orleans was preposterous; they believed that the result would be the army's destruction. [5]
One of the generals rode up to Napoleon and ventured to offer to lead the Old Guard into action. [2]
Some of the generals expressed the same opinion. [2]
The coast and Gap movements made, Generals McClellan and Fremont, in their respective departments, will avail themselves of any advantages the diversions may present. [7]
Adjutants and generals galloped about, shouted, grew angry, quarreled, said they had come quite wrong and were late, gave vent to a little abuse, and at last gave it all up and went forward, simply to get somewhere. [2]
To-day it was full of priests, courtiers, generals and governors of provinces. [10]
Malasha looked down from the oven with shy delight at the faces, uniforms, and decorations of the generals, who one after another came into the room and sat down on the broad benches in the corner under the icons. [2]
In this action for the first time trophies were taken: banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. [2]
Ransomed at length for six hundred thousand measures of wheat by her brother Honorius, who handed her over struggling to Constantius, one of his generals. [4]
The other generals followed his example, then the officers, and after them with excited faces, pressing on one another, crowding, panting, and pushing, scrambled the soldiers and militiamen. [2]
He spoke a few words to some of the generals, and, recognizing the former commander of Rostov's division, smiled and beckoned to him. [2]
With him Generals Ewell and Longstreet. [7]
It is found, even, that his judgment on military matters was astonishingly acute, and that the advice and instructions he gave to the generals commanding in the field would not seldom have done honor to the ablest of them. [7]
Yet these were estrays from the fiery army which has given our generals so much trouble,--"Secesh prisoners," as a bystander told us. [6]
There was room enough in the wide corridor for the generals to pass the three officers quite easily, but Zherkov, pushing Nesvitski aside with his arm, said in a breathless voice, "They're coming!... [2]
Which of the enemy's generals could cope with Antony on the land? [10]
Kutuzov rode to Dobroe on his plump little white horse, followed by an enormous suite of discontented generals who whispered among themselves behind his back. [2]
When he had dismissed the generals Kutuzov sat a long time with his elbows on the table, thinking always of the same terrible question: "When, when did the abandonment of Moscow become inevitable? [2]

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