The Serbians, though few in number, made a desperate resistance.
They came on so rapidly and with such momentum that the Guards, trying in vain to stem the tide with the bayonet, were overwhelmed, and the British, in spite of desperate resistance, were forced back step by step.
Herein, perhaps, we have the keynote to Belgium's desperate resistance to the German invaders.
Manly saw the force that was to be brought against him, and sent his men to quarters, preparing for a desperate resistance.
When the victors came to look about the captured vessel, they found such proofs of a desperate resistance, that their admiration was open and pronounced.
The three barbarians were apprehended, after having made a desperate resistance.
A fanatical commotion instantly took place at Brussels; the moderate party in the civic guard was disarmed, and the populace made preparations for desperate resistance.
The rest of the Saxon troops were taken prisoners, after a desperate resistance, in the dwelling-houses of Oberau.
The Russians made a desperate resistance, and the fighting around Lodz constituted the most bitter struggle of the entire war on this front.
After a desperate resistance it was decided to go on fighting to the end.
It was true that they had a strong position, and could make a desperate resistance; but they were separated from their friends, and their final downfall was but a question of time.
Such an attack was the danger which Porter most feared throughout the expedition, and he nightly made preparations for a desperate resistance.
This soon came to the ears of Thomas, who with his men rallied on the deck, and, with revolvers drawn, seemed prepared to make a desperate resistance.
One of them, the one now in irons, made a desperate resistance, but was not supported.
One man alone made a desperate resistance, but after a crack from the butt-end of a carbine, he accepted his defeat sullenly.
The British consequently encountered everywhere a desperate resistance, especially on the right of the offensive around Tower Hamlets Ridge west of Gheluvelt.
Although the Germans maintained a desperate resistance at the bottom of the Marne salient, it was evident that they would be forced soon to make a wide retreat.
On the 25th, a vast galleon, dropping behind, was captured by Sir John Hawkins after a desperate resistance.
There was some trouble at Het Pappotje Farm in this way, where a party of German machine-gunners put up a desperate resistance, shutting themselves in behind steel doors before they were routed out by a bombing fight.
The Germans here did not yield without a desperate resistance.
Here there was hard fighting, by the Lancashire Fusiliers, South Staffords, and Yorkshires of the 11th, and the German garrison put up a desperate resistance in the brewery of Poelcappelle.
The latter, confronted by O'Higgins' army, and anticipating a desperate resistance, thought it best not to press his advantage too far.
But in the villages and the outlying cities like Cochabamba and Santa Cruz the insurgent bands kept up a desperate resistance.
The small garrison under Colonel Robles made a desperate resistance, but was soon overpowered, and there the revolution established its base of operations.
The Caras and their allies among the brave tribes of northern Ecuador made a desperate resistance, but were overthrown in battle after battle, and Huaina Capac entered Quito in triumph.
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