Explain why the blockade was such a deadly weapon.
On the other side of the ledger must be recorded many a cruel and bloody conflict as the frontier rolled westward with deadly precision.
Though there were many common ties among the settlers of New England, it required a deadly fear of the Indians to produce in 1643 the New England Confederation, composed of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven.
The deadly effect of this paralysis of trade upon Southern war power may be readily imagined.
In the opinion of the statesmen who frankly represented the planting interest, the industrial system was itsdeadly enemy.
By this cruel deed Aethelred won the deadly hatred of Swegen, King of Denmark, whose sister and her husband had been among the slain.
Next day, however, to the surprise of all men, he asserted that his consent had been a deadly sin, that he withdrew it, and that nothing should induce him to sign the constitutions.
He headed in person a raid into France, and sacked the town of Mantes, but while he watched his men burn the place, the king came to deadly harm.
Just before he embarked, however, he found himself exposed to a deadly peril, which showed him how precarious was the hold of the Lancastrian dynasty on the throne.
All Europe now began to disarm, dreaming that the deadly struggles of the last twenty-two years were over at last.
William of Orange, the champion of Protestantism on the continent, and the deadly foe of James's ally, the King of France, was known to be ready to strike any blow that would bring England over to his side.
From sheer desire to humiliate the great earl, he concluded an alliance with Charles the Rash, Duke of Burgundy, the deadly enemy of France, because he knew that Warwick was opposed to such a tie.
All the long guns of the "Saratoga" now began to play upon the enemy's frigate, every shot telling with deadly effect.
Then began a furious and deadly conflict, for the ships were close abreast, and in the smooth water there was no motion to disturb the pointing of the guns.
She was deadly pale, but as a sheep before her shearers, she was dumb, and they led her away to be burnt.
Azora, recovering from her alarm at his increasing violence, but deadly pale.
A shrill, prolonged scream of infant agony instantly burst on his ears; and as he sprang aghast to the spot, his little sister fell writhing at his feet transfixed by the deadly steel.
Large drops followed one another down the brow and face of Hassan, but he wasdeadly calm, and seemed to repeat the words from memory, but to have no feeling of their meaning.
Behind could be heard the clatter of hoofs, as the pursuers did their best to overtake the violators of the law, and in the advance was the carriage, with its deadly load, that the least concussion would liberate in all its dreadful power.
Some of the mostdeadly diseases do not reveal themselves in the patient's countenance, nor has the patient any adequate understanding of his malady.
They fall in love, and fly together into the wilderness, where they realise that they are deadly enemies.
Like sorrow came upon me, heavier still, Than when I wander'd from the poppy hill: And a whole age of lingering moments crept Sluggishly by, ere more contentment swept Away at once the deadly yellow spleen.
Ah, 'tis the thought, The deadlyfeel of solitude: for lo!
Pained and hot His eyes went after them, until they got Near to a cypress grove, whose deadly maw, In one swift moment, would what then he saw Engulph for ever.
When he had stalked away through the snaplock-guarded private entrance, there came over Lilienthal's face a spasm of deadly hatred.
The deadly poison in the drugged wine had killed the unfortunate lover almost instantly.
Ferris already scented his deadly foe in Mr. John Witherspoon, who daily visited the offices of the Trading Company, passing him with a mere formal bow, when engaged upon the books and papers.
A two-ounce vial, and probably mingled with some more deadly poison!
I would be exposed, perhaps even here, to their deadly resentment if I openly rebelled.
That no angel with a flaming sword stands ready to warn away the helpless from the gates which close behind the unwary with a deadly clang.
It was a powerful agent of evil--a tool of the deadly thug.
They hate the mail-order houses with a deadly fear, because the cataloguers undersell them in a lot of lines.
The deadly suspicion of the truth struck in upon the guest of honor; they, his friends, were going because they could no longer take part in honoring him.
Don't strike me," said the girl again, and again Banneker's heart was shaken within him by such tremors as the crisis of some deadly fear might cause.
She was deadly pale with a surmise too monstrous for utterance.
He shook in the bitter heat as if from some inner anddeadly chill.
But behind it there was promise of deadly rifles and the bursting fire.
Then they had drawn off and given up in the face of the deadly shooting--concluding to let nature work for the victory.
It rang as yet no clear message to her brain, but the premonition of something sinister and deadly sent a sinking sensation through her.
Come, deadly element of Fire,--henceforth my familiar frame!
But first of all I undertook, so far as His grace should enable me, to refute the enemies of the city of God, who prefer their gods to Christ its founder, and fiercely hate Christians with the most deadly malice.
A third now springs out of the shadow and stoops forward as if to drag the fallen man back into shelter; but before he can reach him he, too, falls before Henderson's deadly rifle.
And follow them up they did, with such deadly persistency that four only out of the twelve succeeded in making good their retreat and regaining the path leading to the cove.
Not a single bullet must be wasted, because in this case it will give us an immense advantage if we can impress the enemy with a conviction of the deadly character of our fire.
He also had becomedeadly pale, and he held her hand in an iron grip.
And, as if to justify her caution, a sharp acute pain seized the queen, who turned deadly pale, and threw herself back in the chair, with every symptom of a sudden fainting fit.
Raoul grew deadly pale, and remained silent for two seconds, which were to his father two hours of agony.
For instance, a torpedo-boat is perfected; immediately it is launched, and ready for its deadly role, a larger and swifter craft is built which may sink it or chase it off the seas.
Other and more deadly methods are discussed, and may even be employed.
She was impressed by the precise workmanship, too; it made the gun, deadly as it was, a thing of great beauty.
And so a deadly war was expected on every side, which, indeed, had never been so near in past years.
A deadly sense of weakness was beginning to overpower him.
Shaking from head to foot, looking deadly pale, speaking low, vehemently, yet with difficulty, he made me for the first time feel what it costs a man to declare affection where he doubts response.
To their great and unaffected surprise they observed him to flush all over, bronzed cheek and forehead, and afterwards to turn deadly pale.
Still was a deadly bowler, a first-class field, and unerring catch.
It has long been known to me, and to many other men in the Pacific who have studied the question, that the so-called poison was, if not exactly a harmless composition, certainly not a deadly one.
As the hot breath of the fast-coming summer proves yet more deadly to every green thing, the pelican flocks sail coastward in great numbers from their failing streams and marshes.
His cries are at times awful, but the silences that follow are more deadly still, for he means murder in every turn and movement.
God grant that we may be guided aright, and that He will deign to watch over my husband and those dear to us both, and who are in such deadly peril.
As I raised the blind, and the morning sunlight flooded the room, I heard the Professor's low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a deadly fear shot through my heart.
There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear.
I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight around her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.
For now more than ever has all work to be done quick and sharp, and in deadly earnest.
I never saw in all my experience the Professor work in such deadly earnest.
