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Sentences ending with retreated

At ten o'clock the infantry that had been among the bushes in front of the battery and along the Kamenka streamlet retreated. [2]
He took a step toward her, and she retreated. [9]
Murmuring, swearing oaths of astonishment, man after man on the firing line dropped his rifle at the word, and sullenly retreated. [9]
He remembered the incident of the night before, when she came to his study and then hurriedly retreated. [11]
In Cologne I enlisted under the banner of Louis of Nassau, and fought with him at Mook Heath till every one retreated. [10]
She saw, however, and retreated. [11]
On the eighteenth and nineteenth of November, the army advanced two days' march and the enemy's outposts after a brief interchange of shots retreated. [2]
He did meet and drive back with disaster about 2000 of Shields's advance till they were met by an additional brigade of Shields's, when Jackson himself turned and retreated. [7]

Sentences containing retreated two or more times

The more the Russian army retreated the more fiercely a spirit of hatred of the enemy flared up, and while it retreated the army increased and consolidated. [2]

More example sentences with the word retreated in them

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]
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]
Still they continued to see the remains of former warriors, who had been to the place where they were now going, some of whom had retreated as far back as the place where they first saw the bones, beyond which no one had ever escaped. [5]
The attacking party then retreated to a height of ground, to muster their men, and to count the number of missing and slain. [5]
The Missourians drove them out and they retreated to Nauvoo, Illinois. [5]
Denny dropped from the wall in a twinkling, and we retreated in disorder to the gate. [5]
Noakes retreated to the small after-cabin of his ship, with two other bullies, and gave out that death would be the portion of any man that intruded there. [5]
Kutuzov wrote that the Russians had not retreated a step, that the French losses were much heavier than ours, and that he was writing in haste from the field of battle before collecting full information. [2]
I retreated to the recess of a closed doorway, and there the dog had me at his mercy, flying at my throat and face or any part of my body that presented itself. [5]
Then M. Dauphin, the Notary, who had joined the crowd, held out a hand coaxingly, and with insinuating rhetoric drew a little nearer than the landlord had done; but he retreated precipitously as the hound crouched back for a spring. [11]
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]
His eye kindled the battle spirit in every one on whom it fell, and the foe retreated at his mere war-cry. [10]
Presently, as he stood with clouded face and mist in his eyes, Jasmine's maid entered, and, surprised at seeing him, retreated again, but her eyes fastened for a moment strangely on the white rose he held in his hand. [11]
Unconsciously, unintentionally, she smiled at him now, then, realising, retreated, shrinking from him, her face averted. [11]
His two brothers retreated, fighting step by step, toward the bridge, we pressing their despairing forces and cutting them down by scores. [5]
The high slope retreated out of sight behind the nearer protection. [13]
Priests and laymen retreated into the house, and so did Barbara and the marquise. [10]
As she retreated reluctantly across the car tracks her attention was drawn to a man at her side, a Slovak. [9]
Paaker retreated, and quitted the room before Nefert had time to express her indignation. [10]
So the poor old Woodlouse retreated out of sight, consumed with shame. [5]
At the age of seven she was still shy with me, and retreated towards Maude. [9]
The old woman looked angrily at him, but retreated as he advanced, and falling back before him, suffered him to shut the door upon her and bolt her out among the guests, who were by this time crowding downstairs. [12]
He then retreated, leaving his wounded with his military chaplain, and in recrossing the now swollen river lost some of his men by drowning. [5]
The spirited animal leaped aside, but a few seconds later Heinz Schorlin had swung himself from the saddle and dealt the dog so vigorous a kick that it retreated howling into the thicket. [10]
When men were killed or wounded, when rows of stretchers went past, when some troops retreated, and when great masses of the enemy came into view through the smoke, no one paid any attention to these things. [2]
So she laid it down on the workbench, and, overcome by a sudden shyness, retreated toward the door. [9]
Dolgorukov was still insisting that the French had retreated and had only lit fires to deceive us. [2]
Launcelot retreated to his town and castle of Joyous Gard, and gathered there a great following of knights. [5]
The artist closed his sketch-book and retreated, and the stout woman, balked of that prey, turned round a moment to the view, exclaimed, "Ain't that elegant! [4]
Bewildered, he shielded his face with his hands and retreated to the church-yard wall, where he stood still and prepared to rush upon his foes. [10]
I called to him, but he paid no heed, and I heard him chuckling as he retreated along the gallery. [9]
Joshua, at the head of a strong detachment, had retreated from the battle, accompanied by Bezaleel, Hur's grandson, Aholiab, his most beloved comrade, the youthful Ephraim, and Reuben, Milcah's husband. [10]
By the time he reached the doorway, however, Jean had retreated to the veille by the chimney behind Maitresse Aimable, who sat in a great stave-chair mending a net. [11]
The Berkshire Regiment had done its work in gallant style up the steep slopes of Dihilbat, had cleared the summit of Osman Digna's men, and followed them with a raking fire as they retreated wildly into the mimosa bushes on the plain. [11]
Obedient to a glance from the Emperor's eyes, the marquise, bowing reverently, retreated into the corridor whence they had come and closed the door. [10]
As he retreated, Gering felt, as he broke ground, that he was nearing the wall, and, even as he parried, incautiously threw a half- glance over his shoulder to see how near. [11]
He had retreated from the ladies, whom he always avoided, and as we were alone in the room I soon succeeded in turning the conversation upon Feuerbach, for I fairly longed to have another person's opinion of him. [10]
He had always faced things down, as long as it could be done; and when it could not, he had retreated, with the comment that no man was wise who took gruel when he needn't. [11]
The Faith Healer, face to face with this supreme and definite test, would have retreated from it but for Laura Sloly. [11]
The Russians retreated eighty miles--to beyond Moscow--and the French reached Moscow and there came to a standstill. [2]
They glanced at each other, and retreated a step by a common and unconscious impulse. [5]
Everywhere Kutuzov retreated, but the enemy without waiting for his retreat fled in the opposite direction. [2]
Besides, the lumber business meant endless figures and measurements in stuffy offices and he retreated from it all. [11]
His whole aspect breathed pain and horror, and Berenike, who took him for a hired cut-throat sent by Caracalla, retreated hastily from him till Johanna revealed his name. [10]
They watched his bowed and stooping figure as it retreated slowly, and when he turned his head to look back, which he often did, waved their hands, or shouted some brief encouragement. [12]
They would have been brave indeed if they had not retreated before such an intense little nucleus of energy and indignation!... [9]
He has retreated and ordered the rearguard to kindle fires and make a noise to deceive us. [2]
After the little adventure of the necklace, Dick retreated at once to his first parallel. [6]
Despair retreated before a woman's insight. [11]

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