The cavalry, who had been more carefully drilled under command of the traitor Richard Hamilton, strove in vain to restore the day.
Those who remained were in a miserable condition, and consisted chiefly of men enlisted for short periods, who could scarcely be properly drilledbefore they returned to their homes.
In the early state of things a waterman always rowed stroke and drilled or coached the crew, and this practice was continued with some of the eights till 1828, and after that the captain of each crew rowed the stroke oar.
Many of these are tied together through holes drilled or burnt through a ledge left on the inner side of the plank or log, a peculiarity noticeable as appearing even in the early vessels of the Northern Seas.
There were no foreign-drilled troops among them, and they carried the old-fashioned firearms that China is now rapidly learning to discard.
They did this three times, each time returning to and starting from the ivy, in perfect order, as if they had been drilled to it.
The following morning when the upper school began its lunch interval, the lower was being drilled in the 'quad,' round three sides of which ran the school buildings.
Cook has only transformed the tourist's mental docility into a bodily one: the guidebook had long drilled his mind before the tour-contractor thought of drilling his body and driving willing gangs of his species all over the world.
They must move as if they were drilled if they move to further my ends.
On the voyage they drilled the men as thoroughly as possible.
These men were better drilled than many of those whose regiments had broken to pieces on the day before, and strict measures were taken, at any rate, to prevent the miscellaneous thronging back to places of safety in the rear.
Down below had come those winking fangs again and Hilton's voice trailed into a rising, rasping gasp as missiles from his compatriots drilled his body.
He looked up sharply, saw the stain of metal against the ledge and saw in the sunlight a fragment of the bullet that had shattered itself there, that would have drilled him had his horse taken the next step.
The tarp and blankets were drilledby five bullet holes.
Ther full four seasons of ther year hain't rolled round yit sence I buried my daddy out thar with a Carr bullet drilled through his heart.
He fell just about where you dismounted, drilled through by a bullet hired by Saul Fulton and Tom Carr.
That's what you've always drilled into me, like gospel.
But really it is only possible to a thoroughly drilled company, held well in hand by a competent commander.
He no longer belonged to the regiment, as on his promotion he had been gazetted from it on to the staff; but during the time he had drilled with them, in Berlin, he had come to be well known to all of them.
The Jacksonian Democracy was already completely ruled by a machine, of which the most important cogs were the countless office-holders, whom the spoils system had already converted into a band of well-drilled political mercenaries.
The small holes for suspension, drilled through some of the Danish celts, he thinks were drilled with a pointed stone.
It has a neatly-drilled circular eye capable of receiving a thread about 3∕80 of an inch in diameter, or about the thickness of fine twine.
The usual shape is that of an obtusely conical disc, in the base of which two converging holes are drilled so as to form a V-shaped passage, through which the cord for attachment could be passed.
Through the upper stone, and near its verge, a vertical hole is drilled to receive a peg, which forms the handle for turning it.
So beautifully are the eyes in these ancient needles formed, that I was at one time much inclined to doubt the possibility of their having been drilled by means of flint flakes; but the late Mons.
At Montgomery, the capital of the confederacy, negroes were being drilled and armed for military duty.
They drilled gymnastically, not to say theatrically.
Until 1816, the junior lieutenant was nominally lieutenant-at-arms, and drilled the seamen, assisted by the serjeant of marines.
A body of volunteers, consisting of coasters and able merchant seamen, who are drilled for serving on board our ships of war in case of need.
A recent establishment of vessels in which the volunteers composing the Royal Naval Reserve are drilled into practice.
Nine voices out of ten have to be drilled for like precious ore.
By these falsehoods, dinned into a singularly well-drilled and docile people, the Germans were worked up to a state of frenzy for an enterprise for which their rulers had been preparing during more than a decade.
I was sound asleep long before they fired the two holes Gifford and I had drilled the previous afternoon, and they let me alone until the noonday meal was ready on the rough plank table.
My Makololo friends were but ill drilled as yet; and since they had never left their own country before, except for purposes of plunder, they did not take readily to the peaceful system we now meant to follow.
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