Containing the manner of the Feint at the Head on the True Parade.
You may also put upon him the double or single Feint, or having bound your Sword without, you may give in your Thrust, as in playing the single Feintat the Head.
This circumstance decided General Grenfell to attack on the north flank, whilst at the same time making a feint on the south flank.
Nevertheless, seeing that her mother wept exceedingly, she shed a few tears to bear her company; for she feared that if she dissembled too far the feint might be discovered.
Considering that this might be a feint to put me off my guard, I went to London for the purpose of attending a large political meeting, in the conduct of which I participated.
I made a feint to shoot one with my pistol, and came closer on the gold than I had intended.
For the father relapsed anew into his old strange melancholies, dozing over his books, indulgingfeint and riposte in the chapel overhead, or gazing moodily along the imprisoned coast.
Knight attacks him and is overthrown, makes feint to yield and tries treacherously to stab H.
Lancelot is binding up his wounds; the traitor approaches, making feint to aid him, deals him a treacherous blow and leaves him for dead; then he cuts off the foot and is riding away when Gawain appears upon the scene and challenges him.
In the afternoon Sir Colin made a feint to the left of our position for the purpose of diverting the attention of the enemy from the real line of advance.
Another body of levies under Major Palmer,[9] who had done good service by making a feinton the right of the Afghan position, arrived about the same time.
For thefeint and for the defence of our camp I left under the command of Brigadier-General Cobbe: 2 guns F/A, R.
The fire no sooner appeared than the captain called to some convicted transports, then in the hold, to inquire if they had fired the vessel; but this appears to have been only a feint to conceal the real design.
This was true, for the major had only made a feint of going in to deceive the boy, and had made off when the lad was out of sight.
The words, perhaps, in this free-spoken world, were gross enough to make a carter blush; and the most suggestive feature was this feint of shame.
Taxis: “We had asked for air cover for the feint but were told the threat would be ‘incidental.
Now came the turn of the 2d Marine Division and the ships of the Diversionary Force to decoy the Japanese with a feint landing on the opposite coast.
Meanwhile, the 2d Marine Division with a separate naval task unit would endeavor to duplicate opposite the Minatoga Beaches on Okinawa’s southeast coast its successful amphibious feint off Tinian.
Moreover, in order to weaken the opposition here and the more to distract and appall, he detached Hancock with twenty thousand men for a feintagainst Richmond.
A slight engagement at Drewry’s Bluff, and a feint this way!
The debated point, I subsequently heard, was how to make a feint attack on the Chiavari road, to mask the coup de main intended for the Monte Faccio.
He could remember every detail of the events as they had happened--the palpable surprise, the moment of hesitation, the feint of denial which successively ensued on his arrival.
We trust thee with all our hearts," and she read not hypocrisy in the feint of benignancy.
Neither would I, if 'twere me, make feint at that thou art.
The Creoles of Santander arose in the "Rebellion of the Communes" and so formidable was the insurrection that the authorities were compelled to make a feint of yielding to the people's demands.
Bolivar succeeded in temporarily crushing some of the opposition in Venezuela and in cajoling Paez, and on his return to Bogota he made a feint of resigning the presidency.
Salem held one under his nose, in spite of a feint to interrupt them by the soldiers.
Now, having in mind the lay of the enemy forces, can you not see that a feint on the enemy left wing, followed by an attack in force on the center, is the key to the whole situation?
But an attack in force in the center, after a feint with my right, will call such Italian troops to the center that a second assault in force on our left will be almost certain of success.
In the midst of its execution, the feint (which for the moment deceived Villars) was arrested.
The sonnet was read to him, and discussed amongst his friends, with guesses at the authorship; for a young woman did not, in that world, write a sonnet without a feint of hiding its origin.
In the face of these facts it is impossible to say categorically that Nelson intended nothing but a feint on the van.
More probably, however, the signal was wrongly repeated by the Euryalus, and as made by Nelson it was really an intimation to Collingwood that he meant to cover the attack on the rear and centre by a feint on the van.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
