Use marching in a sentence
Sentences ending with marching
- We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. [5]
- The host was ordered to prepare for marching. [10]
Sentences containing marching two or more times
- Then the bands turned their instruments towards Cathy and burst in with that rollicking frenzy of a tune, "Oh, we'll all get blind drunk when Johnny comes marching home--yes, we'll all get blind drunk when Johnny comes marching home! [5]
- Buell's old troops, now in pursuit of Bragg, have done more hard marching recently; and, in fact, if you include marching and fighting, there are scarcely any old troops east or west of the mountains that have not done as hard service. [7]
- I suppose there has yet been discovered by man no gratification like that of marching at the head of a column in uniform on parade, unless, perhaps, it is marching at their head when they are leaving a field of battle. [4]
More example sentences with the word marching in them
- Though tattered, hungry, worn out, and reduced to a third of their original number, the French entered Moscow in good marching order. [2]
- Brave Winthrop, marching with the city elegants, seems to have been a little startled to find how wonderfully human were the hard-handed men of the Eighth Massachusetts. [6]
- I am filled with a kind of dismay when I see the great stock-yards of Chicago and Cincinnati, through which flow the vast herds and droves of the prairies, marching straight down the throats of Eastern people. [4]
- And so they were, in effect--at least they could exhibit it from their windows, and did--for a consideration--whenever a returning king or hero gave it a fleeting splendour, for there was no place like it for affording a long, straight, uninterrupted view of marching columns. [5]
- Just then the watch, marching from the Marienthurn to the Frauenthor, gave her vagrant thoughts a new turn. [10]
- Mr. Gamaliel Ives was triumphantly marching down the aisle, and with him was--well, another person. [9]
- Then Havelock's force was similarly withdrawn, post by post, marching in rear of our garrison. [5]
- That one sound was all that visited the ear in the summer stillness--just that one sound--the muffled tread of the marching host. [5]
- They were toiling up a long, slanting ridge of snow--twelve persons, roped together some fifteen feet apart, marching in single file, and strongly marked against the clear blue sky. [5]
- They wear green twigs in their helmets, and the Eletto is marching in the van, bearing the standard. [10]
- Shortly afterward the tuba sounded to assemble the plunderers still scattered about Seleukus's house, and Nemesianus saw the men marching in small companies into the great hall. [10]
- All day they travelled, scarcely halting, Lepage's Indian marching well. [11]
- The Royal Court, too, caught on a sudden marching in their robes, turns to and joins the cortegee, and the little birds a-tweeting-tweeting, and two parsons at the grave. [11]
- I am obliged to say that if looking proud and happy when one is marching were sufficient, he would have been the perfect soldier. [5]
- An hour after this I was marching, with two other men and Gabord, to the Convent of the Ursulines, dressed in the ordinary costume of a French soldier, got from the wife of Jean Labrouk. [11]
- Well, sir, next they took it into their heads that they would like some music; so they made me stand up and sing "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" till I dropped-at thirteen minutes past four this morning. [5]
- Now one half the world are employed in getting ready to kill the other half, some of them by marching about in uniform, and the others by hard work to earn money to pay taxes to buy uniforms and guns. [4]
- And outside, all the while, was the measured tramp of marching battalions, belated odds and ends of the French power gathering for the morrow's tragedy on the grim stage of war. [5]
- The men in the Russian army were so worn out by this continuous marching at the rate of twenty-seven miles a day that they could not go any faster. [2]
- At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines. [2]
- Long files of the ministers of the god-representing the five phyla or orders of the priesthood of the whole country--were marching, in holiday attire, along the harbor-road in the direction of the palace, and the jostling crowd respectfully made way for them to pass. [10]
- And that is the kind of lane we had been marching through all these days. [5]
- They rushed to the door, and were met by Parpon the dwarf, who announced that a regiment of soldiers was marching on the village. [11]
- One by one the companies are marching up, and taking place in line; the city companies in natty gray fatigue, the country companies often in their Sunday clothes. [9]
- There we carried the bridge by assault, and left a force to hold it, the rest of the army marching away next morning toward Beaugency, where the lion Talbot, the terror of the French, was in command. [5]
- It was then that, through the long funeral line, men with hard-set faces came closer up together, and forty, detaching themselves from the well-kept run of marching lodgemen, closed up around the horses and the hearse, making a solid flanking force. [11]
- I read her that poem of Moody's--you know it:-- 'Here, where the moors stretch free In the high blue afternoon, Are the marching sun and the talking sea. [9]
- O silent voice, that cheered so long Our manhood's marching day, Without thy breath of heavenly song, How weary seems the way! [6]
- No, it came still nearer; was it the measured tramp of a marching troop? [5]
- The tramp of steeds, the loud voices of men, the sound of drums and fifes were audible, then there was rattling, marching and shouting in the court-yard. [10]
- From beyond the square rose an indistinct sound, but familiar--court, crisp phrases of command; next I saw the plain of heads dividing, and the steady swing of a marching host was glimpsed between. [5]
- It was the song of a bannered army, marching over the battle-field with conquering voices, and swords as yet unsheathed and red, carrying the spoils of conquest behind the laurelled captain of the host. [11]
- In a moment somebody knocked three times on the door: it opened, and the procession returned, and moved again to the rear of the altar, the singers marching with it and chanting. [4]
- The corporal and soldiers were in marching kit with knapsacks and shakos that had metal straps, and these changed their familiar faces. [2]
- A squad of soldiers muffled in heavy capes and woolen caps was marching along the car-tracks. [9]
- The most splendid sight of all was the procession of priests, with Timotheus, the high-priest of Serapis, at their head, and by his side the priest of Alexander, both marching with dignity under a canopy. [10]
- The manoeuvre, in short, was executed very clumsily and very obviously, but executed nevertheless--the sisters marching out of the room under a fire of protests. [9]
- And now we see what history will be talking of five centuries hence: a uniformed and helmeted battalion of bronzed and stalwart men marching in double file down the floor of the House--a free parliament profaned by an invasion of brute force! [5]
- Fifty times his schemes seemed marching to fulfilment; but something always intervened. [11]
- Thousands would gather round his standard, and so marching on to Paris, the Napoleonic faith would be revived, and he would come into his own. [11]
- The crowd surged round him, pushed him, forced him forward, carried him on, till the marching men came near, were alongside of him--a battalion of Volunteers, going to the war to see "Kruger's farmers bite the dust! [11]
- A score of river-drivers were marching down through the village, mocking the fishers and making wild mirth. [11]
- It was the revolution marching into the "dreaded wood of La Sandraie. [4]
- From all these reports it was evident that where they had expected to meet a single division there was now the whole French army marching from Moscow in an unexpected direction--along the Kaluga road. [2]
- See the gray regiments marching silently in the tropic heat into the folds of that blue army whose grip has choked them at last. [9]
- Mr. Catherwood's Ben, reeking of the stable, had brought the rumor of the marching on the camp into the dining-room, and close upon the heels of this the rumble of the drums and the passing of Sigel's regiment. [9]
- Before they had reached Bagration, the weighty tread of the mass of men marching in step could be heard. [2]
- It was a rattler, that caravan, and a most bully sight to look at next morning when the sun come a-streaming across the desert and flung the long shadders of the camels on the gold sand like a thousand grand-daddy-long-legses marching in procession. [5]
- We found a railway intruding at Chester, Illinois; Chester has also a penitentiary now, and is otherwise marching on. [5]
- A band was playing "The Banks o' Garry Owen," and the tramp of marching men came to his ears. [11]
- He had already picked out his points of attack and was marching on them. [9]
- If I can pass the medical examination, which it is possible I may, though I fear my constitution may be thought too weak, and if no obstacle impedes me, I think of marching in the ranks of the Oxbow Invincibles. [6]
- Armies were marching over the kingdom. [4]
- What the people ought to have is something spirited--something like "Johnny Comes Marching Home. [5]
- And there was only one form of marching in his manual of tactics, and that was the double-quick. [5]
- At half past one in the morning the procession burst into the village singing, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," waving its lanterns and swallowing the drinks that were brought out all along its course. [5]
- The stinging sweetness of the morning was a tonic to all his energies, an elation to his mind; he swaggered through the lush grasses and boskage as though marching to a marriage. [11]
- Considering the deal of marching and fighting which the men had done that day, D'Alencon thought the hour rather early; but Joan said it was best so, and so must be obeyed. [5]
- On that Isle of Jersey there you should almost hear the voice of de la Rochejaquelein and the marching cries of our loyal legions. [11]
- Imagine a file of elephants marching through such a crevice of a street and scraping the paint off both sides of it with their hides. [5]
- On the tenth of August the regiment Prince Andrew commanded was marching along the highroad past the avenue leading to Bald Hills. [2]
- Would the marching of an army into South Carolina, without the consent of her people, and with hostile intent toward them, be invasion? [7]
- The position we occupy is a strong one, and while they are marching to go round me on the right they will expose a flank to me. [2]
- When my men objected to marching through ice-skimmed water up to their necks, Mr. Ritchie showed them how. [9]
- Each commander has obeyed the master mind of his chief, who has calculated the time of marching with precision. [9]
- Here, in a nutshell, though neither he nor I realized it, was the political instruction of the marching hordes. [9]
- Where facts are numerous, and unquestionable, and unequivocal in their significance, theory must follow them as it best may, keeping time with their step, and not go before them, marching to the sound of its own drum and trumpet. [3]
- And they are not rare; one can open a German newspaper at any time and see them marching majestically across the page--and if he has any imagination he can see the banners and hear the music, too. [5]
- It would go no higher than our knees, and the sound which the regiment made in marching was like that of a great flatboat going against the current. [9]
- And here was Nancy marching at my side, a little subdued, perhaps, but unquestionably admiring and realizing that it was I who had created all this. [9]
- It was a medley of railroad travel, of committees provided with badges--and cigars, of open carriages slowly drawn between lines of bewildered citizens, of Lincoln clubs and other clubs marching in serried ranks, uniformed and helmeted, stalwarts carrying torches and banners. [9]
- You'll see regiments marching out o' step, an' every man on his own, which is not how we started this war, not much. [11]
- A morose soldier marching on the left turned his eyes on Bagration as he shouted, with an expression that seemed to say: "We know that ourselves! [2]
- The Greylocks are marching on the capital. [10]
- Talbot's force was marching in three bodies. [5]
- He cannot help marching in step with his kind in the rear of such a procession. [6]
- He was soon marching at their head through the narrow, rocky valley, and after moving silently an hour through the gloom the warriors enjoyed the refreshing coolness which precedes the young day. [10]
- All England was marching against us! [5]
- Suppose we reach Maple Valley without an attack, will we not be attacked there in force by the enemy marching by the several roads from Manassas; and if so, what? [7]
- These now trudged manfully forward, smoking their pipes with outrageous vigor, so as to raise the awful cloud that has been mentioned, but marching exceedingly slow, being short of leg, and of great rotundity in the belt. [4]
- Auxiliary to these main points, to be sure, are their thunderings of cannon, their marching and music, their fizzlegigs and fireworks; but I will not waste time with them. [7]
- And there was little Tiefel marching in that place of second lieutenant that Stephen himself should have filled. [9]
- Both of them led downhill and troops were marching along both. [2]
- His ruse in leaving the steamers in the night and marching across the desert was as courageous as it was perilous, for, if discovered before he reached the beleaguered place, nothing could save his little force from destruction. [11]
- Then this New Jersey phantom rose up and bowed and begged pardon, then with the officer beside him, the file of men marching behind him, and with every mark of respect, he was escorted to his carriage by the imperial Cent Gardes! [5]
- And imagine what it was like when Grant, their first commander, stepped into view while they were still going mad over the flag, and then right in the midst of it all somebody struck up, 'When we were marching through Georgia. [5]
- Afterward, in London, it was a pleasure to me to see this fantastic vagabond come marching into the lobby of the hotel in his grand-ducal way, for he always had some new imaginary grandeur to develop--there was nothing stale about him but his clothes. [5]
- While they did it they would picture to themselves that vast army of pilgrims marching through the cloven waters, bearing the hallowed ark of the covenant and shouting hosannahs, and singing songs of thanksgiving and praise. [5]
- He says: "If it had been all the same to Gen. Sherman, I wish he had gone around by the way of the Gulf of Mexico, instead of marching through Georgia. [5]
- Privileged Ned ran into the dining-room where Virginia and her aunt were sitting, his eyes rolling and his face ashen with terror, crying out that the Dutch were marching on the city, firebrands in hand and murder in their hearts. [9]
- He wished to inspect them in the stadium, and they were now marching thither. [10]
- I caught the infection and felt a great impulse stirring in me that was like what one feels when he hears the roll of the drums and the tramp of marching men. [5]
- His marching was incredibly awkward and slovenly, and so was his drill with the pike; but he didn't know it, and was wonderfully pleased with himself, and mightily excited and charmed with the ringing, crisp words of command. [5]
- Everybody knew that in various towns patriot priests had been marching in procession urging the people to sacrifice money, property, everything, and buy the freedom of their heaven-sent deliverer. [5]
- The people gathered in crowds to the church --the streets were filled with neighboring citizens, all marching to the house of worship. [5]
- She was astounded, however, an hour later, to see him still at the inn door, marching up and down, a whip in his hand. [11]
- The beat of her husband's drums was familiar to her, and when she saw him at midnight marching past to the horrible call of the alarm-bell, a terrible dread overpowered her and would scarcely allow her to call: "Husband, husband! [10]
- In that instant he saw the regiment marching, and the flag flying at its head. [9]
- The same day he left the village; and the next time his name was mentioned it was as an officer in one of the regiments just raised and about marching to the seat of war. [6]
- This argued that he had not found the road, yet, but was marching to it with some peasant. [5]
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