It was a critical moment; life depended upon success, death would follow, sure death, the failure of his plan.
He had "piped" down to a critical moment, but he carried his life in his hands.
It was a critical moment; both men were cool and spoke in deliberate tones.
It was a critical moment, for a narrow-minded man in his place, timid of responsibility and fearful of his own popularity at home, would have prevented or postponed for many years the American Union.
It was won at a critical moment to the Federal government, and it became to its interest to magnify it in every way practicable.
Thus did it fall to the lot of Hill once more to strike the decisive blow at a critical moment.
He had come, too, at a critical moment, and his coming had been worth much to the South.
He had heard of his heroic charge at a critical moment--of a man rising from his bed of wounds to lead back his wavering regiment; the army was ringing with it.
Prescott was startled by his friend's appearance there at such a critical moment, but he remembered that the night was dark and he was heavily muffled.
The honour of the day belongs to Alexander Farnese, who with a dashing cavalry charge broke the enemy at a critical moment, the only men who made any real resistance being the Scottish levies, 600 strong, under Colonel Balfour.
General Law, who commanded an Alabama Brigade, had been arrested and courtmartialed for failing to support General Jenkins at a critical moment, when Burnside was about to be entrapped, just before reaching Knoxville.
The Second and Eighth South Carolina coming up at a double quick, joined Hampton's Legion, with Early, Cox, and the troops from the Valley just in time to be of eminent service at a critical moment.
It was a critical moment, and the necessity imperative for prompt, decisive action.
The divorce of the colonies from the mother country took place at a critical moment, when their union was hurtful to them both.
This is a critical moment: upon the triumph or the defeat of revolution in South America depend the destinies of two worlds.
Furthermore, when the bits are washed, the leather gets wet, and the stitching is apt to become rotten, and unexpectedly give way at a critical moment, when some unusual strain is put on it.
Against this reversal of policy at a critical moment Mr. Churchill made the strongest protest, and said that he must disclaim all responsibility if disaster occurred in Turkey owing to the insufficiency of troops.
It was this courage as well as consistency of policy that bound Gambetta to him, and made Bismarck wish that he should be sent to Berlin at a critical moment in 1885 'to have a talk.
The two allies were fighting a hard fight at a critical moment.
Napoleon was unassisted by the wandering force and even confused by their unexpected appearance at a critical moment.
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