Directly he saw he could bring on a battle he ran up the signal which the whole world knows, and which we of the Empire will cherish till the end of time: "England expects that every man will do his duty.
The Germans fired every torpedo they could bring to bear; and nothing but Jellicoe's supreme skill, backed by the skill of all his captains, saved his battleships from losing at least a third of their number.
Quick as a flash he fought the German giants with every gun that he could bring to bear while turning back to take his proper station on the flank.
Here they were joined by Herbert de Bosham, who had been sent to Canterbury to collect such money and valuables as he could bring away.
Yet had the Churchman still many scruples of conscience and honour to surmount before he could bring himself to oppose the government by force.
And often she thought, "What wonderful things the Three Giant Women would give me if I could bringmyself to go to them on their mountaintop.
If we could bring Hrymer's kettle here, what a feast we might have!
Odin in his hall of Valhalla thought only of the ways by which he could bring heroes to him to be his help in defending Asgard.
If you can't tell me, would you trust a very lovely and gentle woman I could bring to you?
If only you could be induced to say the word, I tell you I could bring one of God's gentlest women to you.
If you chose me for your own before the world what could any one say against me, save that I could bring you no wealth but myself?
Even some among Mr. Gladstone's private friends wondered how he could bring himself to join a minister of whom he had for three or four years used such unsparing language as had been common on his lips about Lord Palmerston.
Without any positive and final declaration, I intimated to each that I did not think I could bring my mind to acquiesce in the proposition for an inquiry by a select committee into the state of the army in the Crimea.
Your poor boy looked such a fine manly fellow the last time I saw him, when we dined at your house, that I had to read the paragraph over and over again before I could bring myself to believe what I read.
Not even that which was so strong within him, the duty of fulfilling a promise, could bring him to the work.
Under the best fire the pickets could bring to bear only one man was killed and Lieutenant-Colonel Baxter and several men were wounded.
At six o'clock the Twelfth Corps came in, when General Lawton called for Hood's brigades, "and all the help he could bring.
Sergeant Ellis thought that he could bring up ammunition if he was authorized to order it.
You grieve me; it is not kind of you to shame me so, for I suffered so much before I could bring myself to admit my fault and see myself as you must have seen me for a long time past.
Then he stood for a few moments in a deep reverie, and seemed to be struggling to get the better of a strong aversion, before he could bring himself to enter the house.
She had long regarded my reserve with amazement and anger; the consequence was that nothing was easier for me than to take advantage of the first chance meeting I could bring about, to conquer a place among her intimates.
And it would make me very happy, I assure you, if I could bring you to look upon the matter as I do.
My courage ran out so fast that I was soon left without any, and my legs had carried me as far as St. James's Church before I could bring them up.
Even supposing I could bring myself to accept the compromise --now that I see it clearly, that the end justifies the means--what good could I accomplish?
I had then endeavored to persuade him to modify his iron-clad interpretation of the order, but without effect, and the only wagons we could bring up from the general parks in rear were ambulances and those containing ammunition.
We all knew that if we could bring Johnston's army to bay, we could destroy it in an hour, but that was simply impossible in the country in which we found ourselves.
He asked for a short delay, till he could bring up his other two divisions, viz.
It took all the influence we could bringto bear to break up these absurdly superstitious practices, and it looked as if no permanent improvement could be effected, for as soon as we got them to discard one, another would be invented.
Thereafter Father Benedict watched the Bishop, and his guest, partake of three meals, before he could bring himself to make known his predicament, and beg to be released.
He was wondering how he could bring it to an end, when a diversion was created by the discovery that Ernest had begun to cry--doubtless through an intense but inarticulate sense of a boredom greater than he could bear.
The telegram was better burned in the fire; there it could bring no more sorrow.
Back of him straggled families from the mills and works with whatever belongings they could bring on their backs.
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