Like the Parthians of a later epoch, they waited until they had bewildered and reduced the foe by their ceaselessevolutions before giving the final charge which was to rout them completely.
All her evolutionswere uncertain and executed at random.
He had improved the tactics, without violating the manners, of his nation, whose force still consisted in the missile weapons and rapid evolutions of a numerous cavalry.
According to the most audacious, Reason has a direct intuition of the Absolute, or even ad libitum of the Infinite and of its evolutions towards the Finite.
We include under the latter military exercises, the various uses of arms, all that relates to horsemanship, and military evolutions and tactics.
The word "step" is somewhat misleading, nothing done with the feet being vital to the evolutions introduced by Fanchon.
Marjorie knelt upon the steps and watched adoringly while Penrod took the drum-major's baton and, performing sinuous evolutions above the crowd, led the band.
The review was to last three days; there were to be fireworks, and a mine was to be exploded besides the evolutions of the troops.
We arrived at the appointed place at eight o'clock in the morning; the evolutions lasted till noon.
Tom quickly took her up to about two thousand feet, and there, finding the conditions to his liking, he began a few evolutions designed to severely test the craft's stability, and to learn whether the engine was working properly.
Meanwhile the meet had been officially opened, and it was announced that the preliminary event would be some air evolutions at no great height, and for no particular prize.
Frank had studied the matter while witnessing the evolutions of the Rippleton Guards, and he had adopted the plan in the club.
In this order the squadron pulled down the lake again, to the widest part, where various fanciful evolutions were performed--which it would be impossible to describe on paper.
Reformation soon (within a century and a half) reached its apparent limit of extent, and propagated itself only internally by further evolutions of thought.
God, seeing all things and touching nothing, gazing on the unconsciousevolutions of things, as the retired Mechanist of nature?
There were no cheering spectators to urge on the contestants by shouts and cheers, though doubtless those who were witnessing the evolutions of the aircraft, before Dick's advent on the scene, were using their voices to good advantage.
In the evolutions of the airship each one aboard was given a chance to pilot her.
I never saw one like that before," remarked Paul, as they watched the evolutions of the craft above them.
The former army officer sent the aircraft through several simple evolutions to test her.
But the advent of the Abaris seemed welcomed by the other airships that were taking part in the evolutions below.
The legend is entitled: Book of knowing the evolutions of Ra [and of] overthrowing Apep.
The evolutions of the satellites are quite regular, according to the astronomers' calculations, but they seemed to the earthly astronomers to vary, because of the time which light took to traverse that 186 millions of miles.
Muralt took me to see the military evolutions gone through by the citizens of Berne, who are all soldiers, and I asked him the meaning of the bear to be seen above the gate of the town.
He made all his pages, lads of fifteen to seventeen, go into the water, and their various evolutions afforded us great pleasure.
Two or three times she ventured a few words, doubtless in the attempt to justify herself; but the man in the greatcoat began again immediately with his loud and angry voice, his savage looks, and his threatening evolutions in the air.
Some of his evolutions were quite wonderful, and all of them were the perfection of grace.
Like all the members of the flycatcher group, the scissorstails capture insects while on the wing, making many an attractive picture as they perform their graceful and interesting evolutions in the air.
In the case of the semipalmated sandpiper these evolutions appear often to be made in silence, although it is of course possible that signals, not audible to the human observer, may be given.
Flocks frequently rose to perform intricateevolutions and then returned with a rush to sweep along the shore and join less ambitious comrades.
While passing down the valley of Crane Creek, in southeastern Oregon, a flock of about 50 avocets arose and indulged in a series of evolutions which even the most casual observer would have paused to watch.
They usually fly in compact flocks by themselves, sometimes performing interesting evolutions high in the air.
The method which enables shore birds, or, indeed, any flocking bird, to accomplish theseevolutions is obscure.
As the restless flocks move about over the water, their aerial evolutionsare well worth watching.
I continued to follow his evolutions with a childish fixity; they made me giddy and vacant, and I spoke as in a dream.
Spencer, in his work on 'Evolutions of Ceremonial Forms of Government,' recites a curious instance of this, where he shows that the habit of stroking the mustache is a survival of scalping.
As naval evolutions become more skilful, their importance grows from day to day.
A fleet of warships must always be ready to meet an enemy; logically, therefore, this point of departure for naval evolutions must be the order of battle.
To these evolutions there is needed a base, a point from which they depart and to which they return.
The cavalry wheeled and charged in all those prompt and orderly evolutions to which the war-horse can be trained.
The evolutions are different from any of the rest, as also the song, but can not be described so as to be understood.
The evolutions are: Commencing in a ring, they mingle together for a few minutes and conclude with a general shout, after which coups are counted by those who wish, or who are able, as in the preceding.
I was afraid, too, that various evolutions and man[oe]uvres which we had to perform would make us late; and more than once I took out my watch to see how the time went.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evolutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
