A gradually widening line of blockhouses running 200 miles (from Lambert's Bay to Calvinia and Victoria West) threatened shortly to limit the raiders' sphere of operation, but till this was complete the chases continued.
The raiders continued their mischievous activities, the columns their incessant chases and hunts.
Man awakens from his long somnambulism; chases the Phantasms that beleagured and bewitched him.
And now commenced one of the most interesting chases I have ever seen.
Red Gilbat gets on--Reddy Clammer gets on--and then Reddie Ray drives them home or chases them home.
In this inning Carroll exhibited another of his demon chases after a foul fly; he threw the base-stealing Crane out at second, and by a remarkable leap and stop of McReady's throw, he blocked a runner who would have tied the score.
The butterfly chases of sunshine and showers even in December and January are suggestive of nothing so much as what a South Pacific Archipelago would be but with fifty or sixty degrees colder temperature.
We had dashed off on too many wild-goose chasesalready to feel that there was very much of a chance of finding our bird this time.
French system of tactics into camp of instruction at Buffalo; chases the Marquis of Tweedsdale, ii.
With this exasperating feature of bear and lion chases I was familiar.
My old lion chases with Buffalo Jones had made me skillful in dodging branches and snags, and sliding knees back to avoid knocking them against trees.
There seemed no help for it; abrupt ending to exciting chases were but features of the lion hunt.
Through my mind whirled with inconceivable rapidity the great lion chases on which we had ridden the year before.
He was as generous as sunshine, and when luck chases a generous man it chases him hard, even though he cannot bet with all the skill of his opponents.
The earth is refreshed, and the storm hath fled, And the breeze, fondling the leaves of the trees, Forth chases thee from the quieted heavens.
It is of this journey of the soul heavenward that literature is the record, and the various chases of literary development in every nation are only so many mile-posts on the road.
And now, leaving for the present actual skirmishes and chases in which the Revenue cruisers were concerned, let us look a little more closely into their organisation.
These cutters were most interesting craft by reason both of themselves and the chases and fights in which they were engaged.
But I didn't think the Byron Chases would go to Maude Pennell's wedding!
The Chases went," said Julia, dipping her bread in her coffee, her eyes on the paper.
He chases the heavy tear from her fair cheek, and while he bids her be glad in his absence with her handmaids peals the sad thunder of the signal gun.
In the course of five minutes, about twenty other horsemen, all dressed in the same uniform, had arrived; all complaining of their wild chases after the Prince in every other part of the forest.
There the Moon still chases his sister, the Sun; and every now and then he turns his sooty cheek toward the earth, when he becomes so dark that you cannot see him.
The shade of the Algonquin hunter chases the spirits of the beaver and the elk with the spirits of his bow and arrow, and stalks on the spirits of his snow-shoes over the spirit of the snow.
And the lady chases the phantom of Count de Mar in real life until she becomes a shadow of her former self, and the young man goes through existence cursing the historical novel in general and Count de Mar in particular.
He is indissolubly linked in the great chain of real, practical, daily events of the world, and he never chases any phantoms--not he.
She takes the eraser and chases him around the room to his seat.
The one finding the eraser on his seat rises and chases the leader.
The catchases the rat in and out of the circle, among desks and over seats, till the "rat" is caught, when a new cat and rat are chosen.
Then crowds in swift upon the calm of boyhood the first anxious thought of youth; then chases over the sky of Spring the first heated and wrathful cloud of Summer.
A half-regret chases over you at nightfall, when solitude pierces you with the swift dart of gone-by memories.
The pipes in a building are run in compact parallel lines in chases designed especially for them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
