The "tirailleurs" of the Moroccan Division had dug trenches there in order to protect themselves against the withering fire of heavy and light artillery which the Germans directed from the north of the marshes.
It was from here, when Mondement had been taken by the Germans, that he directed the counter-attacks which drove them from it.
It is directed by an administrative council chosen by the Minister of Public Works.
Joffre directed the operations first from Bar-sur-Aube and afterwards from Romilly.
Through embrasures pierced in the walls, rifles and machine-guns directed a fierce fire on the French troops as they advanced to attack from the direction of Chambry and Barcy.
Arabic, and directedthem to renounce all their traditional habits, customs and ceremonies.
In the beginning of Islam the great traditionists were Ayesha, the favourite wife of the Prophet, the four rightly directed Khalifs, viz.
To put a stop to this nuisance a regiment of the friendly natives--there may have been several hundred of them--was directed to cross the river and clear the kloofs and rocks of the Zulu skirmishers who were hidden among them.
The impotence of the Frankfort Diet could be cured only by the North Germans, and the aspirations of good patriots, from Baden to the Baltic, had been for long directed towards Prussia.
Howard, Wilberforce, and others directed this spirit into definite channels, and many of their followers tinged with a warm religious glow the principles which, even in agnostics like Mill, lent consistent nobility to a life of service.
He was not the man to lead a forlorn hope, but rather the sagacious commander who directed his troops through a practicable breach.
His effort was evidently directedto convince you, not that he was eloquent, but that he was right.
De Nelidoff, at Constantinople, dared even to make himself the centre of diplomatic intriguedirected against the policy of his chief.
After all this ego is not really absolute; it is specifically and pathetically human and directed upon a few natural ends.
All that was a vulgar convention; in truth a disembodied Will was directed on any and every ideal at random, and when any of these fantastic objects seemed to be attained nothing was really accomplished, nothing was accumulated or learned.
Sulpiciens twenty: the Société de la Rue Picpus two; the Maristes one or two; the rest are directed by diocesan priests chosen by the bishop.
It is an instance of his wisdom that he directed the sisters for thirty years by word of mouth, and at last wrote down for them the rules which he had found work efficiently in that time.
One blind boy kindly directedus over to the female part of the house: they move up and down stairs and about the corridors without hesitation.
For hundreds of years it has formed the subject of numberless reproaches directed against this empire by those who belong not to it: yet it subsists still: there is no sign of its being surrendered or modified.
All these establishments are directed by priests of this Congregation.
He then read a few prayers: gave out a neuvaine of prayers beginning on that day, and preceding the feast of the Assumption, to be directed for the tranquillity and well-being of France, by order of the vicars general.
Whether inevitably or no, at all events it happens that the march of respectability gives, to regulations which may be quite proper in themselves, a very strong appearance of being directed against the poorer working people.
It must be admitted that the action of the justices had some appearance of being directed against the poor.
The gaze of every partisan--and of all the non-partisans--was directed at Taylor.
The emperor soon discovered that the British were still in front of him; for the English regiments were directed to clean their arms by firing them off, and the heavy fusillade reached Napoleon's ears.
Nothing is harder than to suffer in inactivity, and the efforts of the officers were principallydirected to appeasing the impatience of their men, "Our turn will come presently, lads.
Every sail was set, and her course was directedtoward this other end of the island upon which the watchers were standing.
Ralph now spread his men out in a line and directed them to feel on the ground to see if they could discover the track.
In a few minutes he returned, and a waiter directed him to the coffee-room.
But no; wait a moment," and he directed the glass upon the schooner.
The latter had not forgotten their cunning, but they needed to be left to themselves, and not directed by a mind which knew nothing of the matter.
He had been directed to it by a pimp, who found regular employment in hanging about the docks and decoying new-comers to this den.
He then stepped down from the bulwarks, and in doing so slipped, making such a noise, that for a moment my heart bounded with the thought that the attention of the watch would be directed to his proceedings.
He could not retire; he had beendirected to put that brigade out of action, capture, or destroy it.
That official announced that the war was over, that peace with England had been declared at the close of the preceding year, and directed that the preparations for launching and completing the vessel must be at once abandoned.
To effect the object of the act the officers of the Board of Engineers, with Commodore Bainbridge, weredirected to prepare plans and estimates of piers sufficient to answer the purpose intended by the act.
I was called into this case, and I promptly directed that the Italian's wife and children be placed under close surveillance.
Stella was a bright child, who, wisely directed and influenced, would have taken a good education.
The financial need directedher training into practical lines; she studied stenography and was fortunate in securing a position in the office of John Evanson, the energetic senior member of a growing leather-manufacturing firm.
Sais also, after being pledged to silence by an oath, is initiated into the secret by Mirza and Pheron, and directed to choose Pheron.
He was also conductor of the London Monday Popular Concerts for many years, and directed many chamber concerts.
After leaving Detmold he successively resided in Hamburg, Zuerich, and Baden-Baden, though most of his time has been spent in Vienna, where he has directed the Singakademie and the concerts of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.
Opening the box, Lena took out and laid on the floor two parcels directed to Milly and herself.
I accordingly laid down the telescope and, as I reached for the rifles, directed Billy to luff and head the boat straight for the spot where the blacks were gathered.
The target I fixed up on the beach and, stationing myself at about a hundred yards from it, directed the attention of my little audience, first to the bow, then to an arrow which I drew from the quiver, and finally to the target.
Mrs. Scherman and Desire Ledwith directed all the putting together, and the grouping was something astonishing.
Well the wife did everything exactly as her husband directed her.
It was precisely in this spirit, that Fulke Greville, two hundred years ago, directed that it should be inscribed on his tomb, "Here lies the friend of Sir Philip Sidney.
There are two considerations by which we ought to be directed in the exercise of the faculty of speech.
He may be directedby an impulse, which occurs in the morning, and vanishes in the evening.
He no longer crouches to the yoke of subjection, and is directedthis way and that at the judgment of another.
The next consideration by which we should be directed in the exercise of the faculty of speech, is that we should employ it so as should best conduce to the pleasure of our neighbour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "directed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
