With rear and flanks protected by a revêtement of gnarled roots and a labyrinth of stems, he fears nothing behind, while the furiously baying hounds on his front he now utterly despises.
This has proved one of our luckier drives, for the bandada, splitting up on the centre, offered chances to both flanks of the blockading line--chances which are not always fully exploited.
It may be necessary (as where a desert-stretch flanks the beat) to place "stops" far outside.
At ten yards the heaving flanks showed that plenty of life remained, and beautiful scimitar-like tushes were conspicuous enough on either side.
The infantry stood with their flanks exposed, and as their fire did not check the Highlanders, they were soon engaged at close quarters, where the Highland target parried the bayonet thrust, while the right hand was free to use the claymore.
In front of them lay an island with a fort, their flanks were covered by gunboats.
It dashed bravely into the batteries of Russian artillery, who were firing into the flanks of our force, and captured a number of their guns, and thus enabled the survivors of the charge to make their way back from the field.
Our charge, being made by a very small body, only broke into the central part of the Russian front, so the two flanks of their line wheeled forward like two arms to enfold it.
Thus their two flanks were strong and menacing and their center, about one hundred and eighty miles in length, bent southward and was slightly concave.
In this manner, his plan assisted by the stormy weather, which served to conceal his movements, he commenced an attack upon both flanks of the enemy.
To this belonged the pulk which he had just encountered, and who were returning from the flanks of his line, loaded with booty, while others seemed to meditate a similar attack.
Buonaparte's own personal experience had convinced him how much, in advancing, his flanks would be exposed to the Hettman and his Cossacks, who had mustered in great force in the neighbourhood of Medyn.
The French cavalry, though so strong as to operate at once on the flanks and rear, failed in being able to break a single square.
In the mean time the dismounted men poured in a withering fire with their carbines upon both flanks of the rebel columns.
Then we dismounted some more regiments and advanced our lines on the flanks and rear.
I listened respectfully, but did not suggest that the same streams would protect Lee's flanks while he was shutting us up.
We would then have the Potomac to bring our supplies, and the tributaries would protect our flanks while we moved out.
And ever on the flanks of the hurrying column flew, like a flag or banneret, Tad's little gray riding-cloak.
Not another word was uttered by the latter, but pressing their spurs deep into the flanks of their horses they sent them with arrowy haste straight toward the spot.
Every step was taking us farther from the camp round the flanks of which we were travelling.
Yet I fear that Violette's heaving flanks and foam-spattered muzzle gave the lie to my careless bearing.
If you and I took the right flanks we should not spoil each other's beauty--though a little blood-letting is a friendly thing in this climate.
They had gathered under an oak tree, knotting their awful, blind, triumphing flanks together, and waiting, waiting.
They stirred, they moved uneasily, they settled their uneasy flanksinto one group, one purpose.
The horses stirred their flanks in a knot against her.
She saw the fierceflanks crinkled and as yet inadequate, the great hoofs flashing bright as yet only brandished about her, and one by one the horses crashed by, intent, working themselves up.
The Colugo, in common with the Flying Squirrel and the Flying Phalanger, has the skin of the flanks extended in a manner capable of sustaining the animals, very much in the manner of a parachute, in an extended leap through the air.
He also affirmed, that his supply of provisions was sufficient for only twenty days, and that the works on the Ticonderoga side were incomplete, with their flanks undefended.
The attacks on the flanks and rear, which formed a part of the original plan, do not appear ever to have been made.
The divisions detached against Lord Cornwallis formed hastily on an advantageous piece of ground, above Birmingham Meeting House, with their left near the Brandywine, and having both flanks covered by a thick wood.
Soon the grand and central attack was commenced, while the English flanks were beset by the Canadians and Indians.
But theflanks of the columns remained exposed to a destructive fire, from every point adapted to serve as coverts.
General Sullivan marched up the river, until he found favorable ground on which to form his men; his left was near the Brandywine, and both flankswere covered with thick wood.
Being reinforced the next day, he hung upon their flanks and rear throughout the whole march to their ships, attacking them at every assailable point.
On the flanks are bright yellow to deep cream-colored vertical bars separated by pale blue or purple interspaces.
Some have yellowish tan flanks and dorsum and an orange middorsal stripe; others have a pale red dorsum, yellow flanks, and a cream middorsal stripe (Pl.
Then with loud and angry shouts they dug spurs deep into the flanks of the gallant beasts they rode, and, swinging their sabres, dashed madly at the nearest face of the square.
Clapping spurs to their horses' flanks they galloped to their posts, and, dismounting within each square, turned to face the enemy.
Tom clapped the heels of his French boots to the flanks of his borrowed horse, while the mantilla that had done him such service, caught by the breeze, went blowing out behind him.
Cramming his heels into the flanks of his horse, he sent him down the road at breakneck speed.
The Southern order of battle seems to have contemplated a movement on one or both of General Pope's flanks while he attacked in front.
You turn its flanks--well, its flanks are made to be turned.
The position was powerful, as both flanks rested upon high ground, which gave every advantage to the assailed party; but on the Federal left an accidental error, it seems, had been committed by General Sickles.
Before this artillery-fire, raking his flanks and doing heavy execution, Hill was compelled to fall back.
As they made their brave rush they were met by a concentrated fire full in their faces, and on both flanks at the same moment.
At this distance he could distinguish little more than a flare of scarlet and cloth-of-gold, and the white of the hounds' flanks and bellies under the strong sunlight.
Only an hour off after breakfast did Pape ask for the rescue of his equine pal from the granite-spiked corral that flanks the mid-park stables.
Pape started and stared about; saw that they were nearing Fifth Avenue and the menagerie that flanks the Arsenal; assumed that some monarch of the wild caged there had but vented his heart.
Its richly arcaded front and banded flanks strikingly exemplify the illogical and unconstructive but highly decorative methods of the Tuscan Romanesque builders.
With few exceptions the flanks present nothing like the variety of sky-line and of light and shade customary in northern and western lands.
The pony was a wiry buckskin with powerful flanks and withers.
Its flanks were stained with sweat and the marks of the saddle chafed its still moist back.
From roof and window a deadly fire was poured into them, bodies of men armed with sword and dagger rushed out of the narrow lanes and threw themselves on the flanks of the column.
In addition to the sortie of the 16th April, Sir Sidney Smith kept the besiegers constantly on the alert by landing parties from the ships' boats on the flanks of their lines of trenches.
It has crooked Shoulders, with a Bunch on its Back like a Camel; its Flanks dry, its Tail large, and its Neck cover'd with Hair like a Lion.
The wood buffalo is stated to be very scarce, and only found north of the Saskatchewan and on the flanks of the Rocky Mountains.
And his splendid flanks and chest were hollow, like those of a good steed that lacketh fodder.
The fall of Teucer struck fresh dismay into the Greeks, who now shrank back behind their defences, Hector following them close, and cutting down the stragglers, like a hound hanging on the flanks of a wild boar.
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