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Example sentences for "both horse and foot"

  • Their fields had been wasted far and wide, and they had fled in terror under shelter of their walls, when the Roman auxiliaries, both horse and foot, arrived on the scene.

  • They found themselves between Caecina and his powerful army on the one side, and on the other the Raetian auxiliaries, both horse and foot, and the whole fighting force of Raetia as well, trained soldiers well used to fighting.

  • Our auxiliaries, both horse and foot, then fought several engagements with varying success, but eventually rescued the queen.

  • All Native Regiments, both Horse and Foot, have Native Christians serving in their ranks; most of the band and drummers are Native Christians, and a watchful eye is kept upon them, although perhaps many of them do not think so.

  • He next set forth the numerous forces, both horse and foot, which they were willing to furnish to Antiochus, for the purpose of the war; what quarters they would assign to his land armament, what harbours for his naval forces.

  • The centurions of the Campanians, whose standards were lost, he left to stand without their girdles and with their swords drawn; and gave orders that all, both horse and foot, should be ready under arms on the following day.

  • At this the Tsar was still more wroth, collected all of his host that was in the town, both horse and foot, and bade his captains drive the wandering strangers out of his preserves without ceremony.

  • Next to these Darius placed the troops from Persia proper, both horse and foot.

  • The corps of Brunswickers, both horse and foot, and the 10th British brigade of foot, were in reserve behind the centre and right of the entire position.

  • He fortified these lines with several redoubts, lined with heavy artillery; and his troops, both horse and foot, were in the best possible condition, and amply provided with stores and ammunition.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both are; both being; both branches; both chief; both church and state; both from; both gold and silver; both instances; both jaws; both languages; both parent; both political; both small and great; both surfaces; both the teaching and administrative spheres; both ways; both worlds; class struggle; getting better; gilt tops; more strongly; progress report; seems reasonable; should vote; single track; would enable