Full knowledge on these points would probably be of great assistance indestroying the "trail of the serpent" (i.
England could only dispel the danger of war by destroying this false conception, i.
Serbian scoundrels were found on all sides; if one of them had succeeded in destroying the Brenner line the whole plan of mobilization would have been disturbed.
During the subsequent pursuit of the Belgian and English armies we heard repeated complaints from the inhabitants that especially the English troops had acted in the most inconsiderate manner, purposely destroying furniture, etc.
It is as evident that heaven belongs of right to the Molinists; therefore by destroying them by mistake, and without any evil intention, we hasten their happiness; and are in both cases the ministers of Providence.
Now, if this worthy prelate is for destroying the twentieth part of the nation at one stroke, might not Father Letellier’s friend and correspondent as well have proposed the blowing up, stabbing or poisoning the one-third?
But the nerves of his colleagues were again on edge; and no argument could persuade them to adopt the best of all possible schemes of defense by destroying the enemy's means of destroying them.
On the ninth of February (the day Lee became Commander-in-Chief) Sherman was crossing the rails between Charleston and Augusta, of course destroying them.
Farragut went on up the Mississippi to see Grant, destroying all riverside stores on the way.
Destroying the line was out of the question, because it ran through West Virginia and Maryland, both of which he hoped to see on the Confederate side.
Needless to say, the cavalry bridge-wagons also carry explosives for destroying the enemy’s bridges and other defenses.
The pioneers see to the throwing up of entrenchments, the building anddestroying of bridges, obstructions, etc.
Colonel Livingston had asked Arnold for two pieces of heavy cannon for the purpose of destroying the Vulture, but on some slight pretence Arnold refused, and Livingston's detachment could bring only one four-pounder to bear upon her.
The order given them was to scatter desolation in their track; and they obeyed--destroying all vessels on the river and firing from the ships upon the houses of known Patriots.
They landed near Kingston on the 13th of October in two divisions, each taking a different road to the town, and burning and destroying as they went.
They held on with the courage of a British bulldog, and in the end, by destroying his fleets at Trafalgar[61] and defeating his army at Waterloo, they brought the tyrant low.
Into her calculating ambition had come a new and destroying element.
It burned slowly, at first a thin blue flame tipped with yellow, then, eating its way with a small fine crackling, a widening, destroyingblaze that left behind it black ash and destruction.
And they are such innocents, the nations they conquer are destroying them.
He knew all too well what that way could do to a man in the aftermath of defeat--sharpen his misery till he could ease the pain only by destroying himself.
But as all the facts come singly, any one who dismisses them one by one, is destroying the conditions under which the conviction of new truth could arise in his mind.
It is bad enough to have to sell this year's crop for a small price without destroying next year's at the same time.
The orchardist makes Nature herself "commend the ingredients of the poisoned chalice" to the lips of her destroying creatures.
But before "snaking" up the logs we had to provide ourselves with handspikes, and that showed me how thoroughly the cattle have been destroying the forests.
Arrived there, he rushed the position, against point-blank fire, alone and in broad daylight, killing the six men of the crew and finally destroying the gun.
Before them the fire-edged barrage swept on, destroying with the completeness of a flaming guillotine.
His fundamental ideas were not destined to make themselves generally known until there was a world in arms bent upon destroying them.
In all countries, everything becomes involved in the torrent; among all peoples, there is the same ecstasy for that which is destroying them.
The two principal drawbacks are the annual grass-fires, destroying everything as they sweep over the country, killing all young forest trees, and making the grass of a coarser texture; and there are sometimes many months of drought.
Other Boers in 1847 followed, and being mounted on horses with rifles, had no difficulty in destroying the natives, who had only the assagai and arrows, as they advanced into the country.
The wickedness and ill government of the Kings and Rulers, being the chief cause of destroying the last age: therefore all those of Cutteries Tribe were all destroyed.
If they are lost in the scrub they die, because they know no other way to live than that cruel one of destroying us all.
The only satin birds who seemed to Dot to be interested in one another, were some engaged in discussing the scarcity of berries and the wrongs done to bower birds by White Humans destroying the wild fig and lillipilli trees.
We have New Orleans, and the uncontrolled possession of the Mississippi river--cutting the territory of the rebels in two, destroying their communications, and giving us a considerable portion of the States bordering that river.
No friend of the Union entertains any serious thought of disregarding or destroying the great principle that governments are only rightly founded on the consent of the governed.
The Federal Government cannot escape the necessity of performing this duty, of suppressing and destroying the lawless power which assails it, and permitting the Southern people to return to the Union.
But the ecclesiastical repression which succeeded in bringing this about succeeded also in destroying all vigour and life in the thought of the University.
The schools were deserted or occupied by laundresses; and, whilst commissioners were busy applying tests, expelling honest fellows, destroying MSS.
Two black spots darkened the sky above his head, and might contain destroying thunder.
If it was a powerful temptation for the angels to save the tempted, the tempted could not harbor with more delight the thought of destroying the angels.
If Rheims were far away from the line of march, and if the Germans had deliberately gone thither for the purpose of destroying it--as some prejudiced accounts seem to state--then there would not be room for two opinions.
The Austrian navy made no appearance while the allied fleets scoured the lower coast of Dalmatia, bringing down lighthouses, destroying wireless stations, and bombarding the islands of Pelagosa and Lesina.
We got there just in time, rushed into action, and opened fire on a German counterattack at short range, destroying the lot so far as I could see.
The same principle which makes it illegal for a man to burn his own dwelling house may fairly be applied in restraining him from destroying the land which he tills.
The writer has seen during one of these temporary advances the interesting spectacle of ice destroying and overturning the soil of a small field which had been planted in grain.
