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Example sentences for "easy victory"

  • The rebels came gallantly forward, in anticipation of an easy victory.

  • Jackson anticipated an easy victory, but met with a stubborn resistance.

  • They attacked in large numbers, confident of an easy victory, therefore very little caution attended their movements.

  • Gonzalo Pizarro, having thus gained an easy victory, marched on with his army in good order to the camp of Centeno, putting every person to death that came in the way.

  • He detached seventy of his cavalry to occupy a ford of the river, by which he meant to cross over towards the camp of the viceroy, over whom he expected to gain an easy victory.

  • Making sure of an easy victory, away we pulled towards the stranger over the smooth shining ocean.

  • The privateer, thinking that they were going to make an easy victory of us, fired again, but the shot, as had the first, flew wide of us.

  • Expecting to gain an easy victory I advanced a few paces and fired, but so rapid were her movements, that my bullet missed.

  • Should any Indians come across our trail, knowing that they could obtain an easy victory, they would too probably follow us up.

  • They have discovered the train, and are galloping towards it as fast as their horses can go, hoping, I doubt not, to gain an easy victory.

  • Ewell's retreat before Hooker he interpreted as an easy victory, which fully compensated for the loss of his magazines.

  • They had anticipated an easy victory; the overwhelming strength of the Federals had surprised them, and their losses had been severe.

  • Such was the plan which, if resolutely carried out, bade fair to crush Lee's army between the upper and the nether millstones, and it seems that the size and condition of his forces led Hooker to anticipate an easy victory.

  • In ignorance, therefore, that the whole Confederate army was concentrated before him, Pope, anticipating an easy victory, determined to sweep Jackson from the field.

  • An overrated man; his successes have arisen from the fact that he has always taken better men than himself at a disadvantage in point of condition, and so has won an easy victory.

  • Here also O'Leary had an easy victory; but it is worthy of remark that he was more distressed to do four hundred miles in the Campana match, than he had been to accomplish five hundred and twenty in the first Astley belt match.

  • Baron von Sternberg, the general of the royalists, marched thither to meet the advancing Taborites, and probably hoped to obtain an easy victory.

  • Ottakar was apparently unaware of the firmness of this alliance; and he entered Austria with a somewhat small force, expecting an easy victory.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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