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At Rome the rejoicings continued for a month, and the standard of the Prophet was borne in triumph from church to church, and from convent to convent, as the most glorious signal of the defeat and humiliation of the false religion.
They did not, however, accept their defeat inactively, but rather set to work with all imaginable energy to bring about a revocation of the bull.
It became a point of honor with Abba-Mari to bring the affair to a conclusion conformable to his own views, for his defeat had exposed his true position to Ben Adret and the Barcelona congregation.
He suffers defeatin grammar, but makes a conquest in love.
At Montiel they suffered a defeat pregnant with consequences fatal to their future.
Thus persecuting Christianity itself furnished its chief enemies, the Turks, with weapons which enabled them to overwhelm the former with defeat after defeat, humiliation on humiliation.
It was easy to predict a defeat at the hands of the Prussian knights, seeing that the pope and the whole of the Polish church were secretly assisting them against Casimir.
They' spell many millions of dollars ready to be spent to defeat John Crawford.
Within thirty days after the first shovelful of earth was turned there was a strong organization perfected to defeat him.
Then came the explanation why defeat meant so little just at this time.
Such a name is Macedonicus given to Lucius Aemilius Paulus for his defeat of Persens, and the title Augustus given by the senate to Octavianus.
A well known example is the name of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the last name having been given him after his defeat of Hannibal.
The reconstruction of the conquered territory brought in returns equally rich; it is safe to say that the Aedui paid Caesar well for the supremacy in central Gaul that he assured them after his defeat of the Helvetii.
When he found himself inclined to rail, he organized a baseball club, and sent down to everlasting defeat the Linburgs, consisting of cash-boys from Linden and Hofburg's department store.
Max was suffering under a sense of defeat as he rode downtown.
Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeatmy life, But never taint my love.
It has seen the Bulgarian atrocities, the defeat of Turkey by Russia, the encampment of the Russian troops at San Stefano, the proclamation of a Constitution, a parliament with two houses opened by the Sultan himself.
But in 1687 the defeat of the army led to a demand for the punishment of the general, Suleiman Pacha.
Within, the city managed to suppress the conspirators; without, he suffered defeat from the Normans at Durazzo, and preserved with difficulty the Thessalian province.
But for the defeat of Bayezid by Timur, the prize would have fallen into the hands of the Turks half a century before it was theirs at last.
For whether it was from the melancholy that his defeat caused, or whether it was by the disposition of heaven that so ordered it, a fever took possession of him that confined him to his bed for six days.
If she recover from her lost state (and it is not possible that she fail to do so), her misfortune will turn to her felicity, and my defeat to the happiest triumph.
I can see that a man with only ordinary business dishonesty, like myself, need not be surprised at defeat by such a master of finesse as you.
There appear, however, insuperable objections to restricting one offence to a single count, in respect of the other object, on peril of the perpetual defeat of justice.
They had never come into contact with the enemy but to defeat them, and the conviction of their invincibility was so powerful, that it required the utmost efforts of their officers to prevent their rushing into profitless peril.
The king of the owls surprised the king of the crows there at night, and after inflicting a defeat on him and killing many crows, departed.
In this city the only imprisonment seen was the committing to paper of the words of poets, the only kind of defeat was the curling in the locks of the women, the only contest was the struggle of getting the corn into the granary.
His glory, after he had inflicted a defeat on the Hunas [296], made the four quarters resound, and poured down the Himalaya like a second Ganges.
On this occasion the English were spared a great defeat by having women and children in their laager, and no doubt for the sake of safety they kept these with them as long as possible.
Soon after his defeat at Spion Kop, General Buller, moved by the earnest entreaties for help from Ladysmith, and pressed by Lord Roberts, attempted a third time to break through our lines.
To put a wrong construction on our defeat was a libel on all who had bravely fought the fight, and I resented it.
The two following caricatures were designed and published before the news had arrived in England of the crushing defeat of the Russians at Eylau, which only appeared publicly in the ‘Times’ of March 10.
The raising the siege of Saragossa, the defeat of Vimiera, and the Convention of Cintra, by which the French were to evacuate Portugal, were not facts likely to be relished in France.
Napoleon was at Dresden when he heard the news of the defeat at Vittoria.
The enemy's gallery was blown in, and the men working destroyed, and a loud cheer broke from the garrison at the defeat of another attempt upon them.
On the afternoon of the 15th, when the defeat at Futtehpore was known, the Nana had given orders for a general massacre of his helpless prisoners.
The gharries were all in waiting at the crossroad, and another day brought them to Lucknow, where the news of the defeat and dispersion of the rebel force had already been sent on by a mounted orderly.
A letter he wrote me in 1886, after his defeat at Liverpool, I kept for many years as the best short analysis I had ever read of the Liberal Unionist position, and the probable future of the Liberal party.
Headings to Chapters, in historical works, capable of this dramatic element, would be as out of place, and as much mar and defeat the effect, as in a novel.
They will endeavour to recapture us; but your band, if you can trust your men, will be sufficient to defeat them should they venture to attack you.
The banditti might not have heard of the defeat of the Spaniards; and should we discover and attack them, they might retaliate on my hapless sister.
This will make me doubly anxious to defeat the Spaniards," observed Don Carlos, after he had somewhat recovered from the agitation into which this intelligence had thrown him.
Such a subterfuge would be but a weak device to defeat the provisions of a solemn treaty.
At the same time my share in his defeat and humiliation left a soreness between us which lasted for a long while.
The gazettes from which the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order.
In proportion to the defeatof the Austrian army Austria loses its rights, and the rights and the strength of France increase.
An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and if its army suffers a complete defeat the nation is quite subjugated.
Let us drink to his health and to the certain defeat of the French!
At that time, the Russians were so used to victories that on receiving news of the defeat some would simply not believe it, while others sought some extraordinary explanation of so strange an event.
The idea of defeat and flight could not enter Rostov's head.
Let every man be fully imbued with the thought that we must defeat these hirelings of England, inspired by such hatred of our nation!
Marya Dmitrievna came back to dinner taciturn and serious, having evidently suffered a defeat at the old prince's.
The national administration, however, was equally alert, and a measure much more effective, in this instance, than moral suasion was employed to defeatthe adherents of the Southern cause.
If nothing takes place materially to change the present state of things, we hope to defeat their plans here.
In 1869 the Senate passed a bill giving Fremont's road the right of way through the territories, an attempt to defeat it by fixing on him the onus of the misstatement in Paris having been unsuccessful.
There is neither victory nor defeat in the case," returned the Prince, drily.
It is now about eighteen years since, that it chanced, the Clan Quhele and Clan Chattan being at feud, as indeed they are seldom at peace, the former sustained such a defeat as well nigh extirpated the family of their chief MacIan.
It remains but to say, that not a man of the Clan Quhele survived the bloody combat except the fugitive chief; and the consequence of the defeat was the dissolution of their confederacy.
This defeat entirely disconcerted the Russian army, and so effectually deranged their plans that they were obliged to raise the siege and withdraw, with the expectation, however, of renewing the attempt in another campaign.
The Countess of Lanswell had never in all her life been defeated before; now all was over, and she went home with a sense of defeat such as she had never known before.
To do this, I must not only head Hood off at Spring Hill, but defeat any attempt he might make to dislodge me from the north bank of Duck River.
This retreat was undoubtedly an error, and the battle of Wilson's Creek must be classed as a defeat for the Union army.
Thomas had succeeded in concentrating his forces at Nashville, and Hood had suffered a severe defeat in attempting to prevent it.
But it is better, of course, to substantially check the enemy than to run the risk of defeat by risking too much.
These are among the many cases where exaggerated ideas of the importance of places have led to the defeat of armies.
I did not believe him then, for I thought they must have recognized their defeat at Franklin, or at least on the 15th, at Nashville.
Davis threatened, the enemy is now in the full tide of execution of his grand plan to destroy my communications and defeat this army.
But thedefeat of Hood at Franklin, and Thomas's concentration of troops at Nashville, completely reversed the situation.
