The country provided absolutely nothing to eat, and I had to face the problem of either dying of starvation or falling back on some place where we could purchase fresh provisions.
Aghast and stupefied by the boldness of the interference, Squeers released his hold of Smike, and, falling back a pace or two, gazed upon Nicholas with looks that were positively frightful.
To obviate the necessity of falling back, which might probably occur if our antagonist be allowed to consummate his plans without molestation.
The result of my efforts in the interval was the conviction that the travel of the sound was increasing too rapidly to be accounted for by my own rate of motion, and that therefore my army must be falling back.
Meanwhile, the Confederate infantry, falling back at their leisure, were relieved of all annoyance.
The cavalry went to the rear, seized the roads leading to Winchester and held them for the use of our troops in falling back, General Wright having ordered a retreat back to that place.
The right under General Getty maintained a firm and steady front, falling back to Middletown where it took a position and made a stand.
After the repulse of Hood at Franklin, it looks to me that instead of falling back to Nashville we should have taken the offensive against the enemy where he was.
During the day several advances were made, and just at dusk it became evident that the Mexicans were falling back.
Colonel Alderson had been sent to Prieska from De Aar, and on the 3rd January exchanged shots at that place with the enemy across the river, falling back subsequently on De Aar.
This the Wiltshire, moving in six lines 100 yards apart, did without loss, under a fire so trifling that the enemy seemed to be falling back, and Stephenson sent word to the General requesting permission to push the attack home.
With this force, weak though it was in guns and mounted troops, he intended to dispute the Boer advance from the north, falling back, if necessary, on the prepared position at Maritzburg.
Falling back step by step before him until, at length, feeling the tapestry at his shoulder, he was involuntarily forced to stop.
We shall see," he replied in a hollow voice, falling back a few paces as if to withdraw.
General Cobos had been detached to reconnoitre at the head of twenty resolute men, in order to watch the enemy's march, and warn the General as soon as he caught sight of them, by falling back unseen on the main body.
Janjalla was behind him, and he several times thought of falling back on that town, but the knowledge that it was being bombarded by the loyalist fleet withheld him from committing such a folly.
At one time he thought of falling back on Janjalla, concentrating all his force within its walls, and holding out against the loyalists, until reinforced by his Indian allies.
His whole front was being assaulted by the loyalists, and behind he had but his battery and a possible chance offalling back on Janjalla in the night-time.
The sounds increased in volume and in violence, and it was no difficult matter to see that the union forces were falling back for, farther and farther to the left and rear, were heard the ominous sounds.
Indeed, there was safety in following rather than in falling back.
In the meantime another man informs me that they are tearing down copper telephone and telegraph wires to points outside of the city, and that our troops are already falling back on Warsaw.
Falling back, however, to a stronger position in our rear, selected by General Burnside, we established a new line about four o'clock in the afternoon.
They reported Longstreet as falling back; said they were tired of the war, and that there was much dissatisfaction in the rebel ranks.
Falling back slowly, with their faces toward the enemy, the regiment preserved a good line, returning the enemy's fire, and retired but a short distance.
Well, of all the--" muttered the man, falling backin his chair.
Why, after a demonstration of this fact, General Shafter should have been so discouraged as to "seriously consider the advisability of falling back to a position five miles in the rear," I do not know.
A little gray figure creeping on all fours suddenly glided out of the shadow of another sand-dune and then halted, falling back on its knees, gazing fixedly at the growing light.
I kin wait," he stammered, falling back, and then the door closed abruptly behind him.
Firuzan himself, who, instead of falling back on Nehavend, took the road leading north to Hamadan, was overtaken by El Kakaa in a narrow pass, and put to the sword.
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