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Sentences ending with retreating

I believe, from these and other considerations, that this vigorous people will find a way out of its present embarrassment, and a way out without retreating. [4]
Don't you see the skirmishers are retreating? [2]
I had got part of it learned; I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating. [5]
The sounds increased, and presently the voices became rough and angry; then came blows, and cries for help; then a clatter of swift footsteps, retreating. [5]

More example sentences with the word retreating in them

You have brought your army corps to Pultusk, routed: here it is exposed, and without fuel or forage, so something must be done, and, as you yourself reported to Count Buxhowden yesterday, you must think of retreating to our frontier--which do today. [2]
Some of the younger officers who were there, laughed as they followed his retreating figure. [9]
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]
It is octagonal, with a peaked roof, each octagon filled with a spacious window, and it sits perched in complete isolation on top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. [5]
Looking after Barry Whalen's retreating figure he saw this new, grave world opening out before him; and as the vision floated before his eyes, Barry's appeal that he should visit Jasmine at the hospital came to him. [11]
Why, when we were retreating from Sventsyani we dare not touch a stick or a wisp of hay or anything. [2]
The two Napoleons were offered--more if necessary--and pilgrims and dragoman shouted themselves hoarse with pleadings to the retreating boatmen to come back. [5]
The dwarf after watching their retreating shadows with a wider grin than his face had yet displayed, stole softly in the dark to bed. [12]
The water-wagtail started up, hastily smoothing her hair and casting an evil glance at her rival, "the other," the supplanter who had basely betrayed her under the sycamores; she clenched her little fist as she saw Paula watching Orion's retreating form with beaming eyes. [10]
Pleasant it is to think that the retreating host of books is to give place to a still larger army of volumes, which have seen service under the eye of a great commander. [6]
A retreating regiment, thronging and hurrying, blocked the street. [2]
In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagration rushed shouting after the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. [2]
Every one on the walls had expected, that a skirmish between the retreating Englishmen and Castilians would now take place before their eyes. [10]
This letter requested the count to send police officers to guide the troops through the town, as the army was retreating to the Ryazan road beyond Moscow. [2]
He could hear swiftly retreating footsteps. [11]
Suddenly a thought struck him, and he hobbled to the door and called out after Jethro's retreating figure. [9]
Either he is retreating, which is the only thing we need fear, or he is changing his position. [2]
Is the army retreating or will there be another battle? [2]
Can you not pursue the retreating enemy, and relieve Cumberland Gap? [7]
Lyman was for not retreating at all, in these uncertain circumstances; but he found that if he tried to maintain that attitude he would fare badly, for the command were in no humour to put up with insubordination. [5]
Presently retreating, it meets another pursuing Antarctic wave, which, thus opposed in its straightforward course, recoils into St. Michael's Bay, then plunges, as it were, upon a terrible foe. [11]
Other columns after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused masses. [2]
The inhabitants were leaving it and the retreating troops were filling it. [2]
After five o'clock it was only at the Augesd Dam that a hot cannonade (delivered by the French alone) was still to be heard from numerous batteries ranged on the slopes of the Pratzen Heights, directed at our retreating forces. [2]
Hearing his dog in the thicket, I rushed through the brush, and came in sight of the hunter as he was retreating down the road. [4]
The French, retreating in 1812--though according to tactics they should have separated into detachments to defend themselves--congregated into a mass because the spirit of the army had so fallen that only the mass held the army together. [2]
Dr. Leiden shook his fist at their retreating persons, saying that the Sabbath was no day to do murder. [9]
The words which he shouted to his retreating men: "Do you call yourselves Spaniards and not know what honour means? [10]
Footsore, but undaunted, he pushed on to join the army, which he heard was retreating southward along the western tier of counties of the state. [9]
The English army had lain at Montmorenci, at the Island of Orleans, and at Point Levis; the English fleet in the basin opposite the town, since June of that great year, attacking and retreating, bombarding and besieging, to no great purpose. [11]
Twenty steps in front of the platforms was another--a table-topped pyramid of stone, built up in retreating courses, thus forming steps. [5]
He is pushing forward to cut off, if possible, the retreating rebel army. [7]
I was making for him, where he now sought to rally the retreating columns, when I noticed, not far away, Gabord, mounted, and attacked by three grenadiers. [11]
The queen's guards fell into line, and she and they marched away, with their torch-bearers, and woke the echoes of the cavernous tunnels with the measured beat of their retreating footfalls. [5]
So thought the Emperor, and the Russian commanders and people were still more provoked at the thought that our forces were retreating into the depths of the country. [2]
Then a light breeze lifted the smoke and mist well away, and a wayward sunlight showed us our foe, like a long white wave retreating from a rocky shore, bending, crumpling, breaking, and, in a hundred little billows, fleeing seaward. [11]
There ought to be something literary in it: retreating past and advancing future and deceitfully permanent present--something like that? [8]
A swift glance at Iberville, and he slung his musket shoulderwards and fired at the retreating figure. [11]
The priest stood as if a sudden blow had struck him, following the retreating car till it was out of sight, and then turned homeward, dazed, and with feeble steps. [4]
There is hardly any pulse at Elsie's wrist; no stimulants seem to rouse her; and it looks as if life were slowly retreating inwards, so that by-and-by she will sleep as those who lie down in the cold and never wake. [6]
The regimental commander and Major Ekonomov had stopped beside a bridge, letting the retreating companies pass by them, when a soldier came up and took hold of the commander's stirrup, almost leaning against him. [2]
Now there is an illustration [pointing to the retreating Joan of Arc]. [5]
This Brass was an attorney of no very good repute, from Bevis Marks in the city of London; he was a tall, meagre man, with a nose like a wen, a protruding forehead, retreating eyes, and hair of a deep red. [12]

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