They have unexpected occupation to defend themselves against the sanguinary forays of the Shânbah.
We are to continue ten days in the route of Fezzan, then turn into that of Ghat, thus describing a sort of semicircle to get out of the forays of the Shânbah.
This is an indication of insecurity, on account of forays of Bedaween Arabs, from whom on their approach they have to scamper as fast as they can.
In the mountains, where the Bedaween forays are almost unknown, the cattle bred are principally sheep and goats.
The whole country adjacent to the Lake, from this point up to Kota-kota Bay, is densely peopled by thousands who have fled from the forays of the Mazitu in hopes of protection from the Arabs who live there.
We gave Moshobotwane a present, and a pretty plain exposition of what we thought of his bloody forays among his Batoka brethren.
He defended his forays on the ground that, when he went to collect tribute, the Batoka attacked him, and killed some of his attendants.
The continualforays of Mariano had spread ruin and desolation on our south-east as far as Mount Clarendon.
After each treaty the settlers would usually press forward into the Indian lands, and if they failed to do this the young braves were sure themselves to give offence by making forays against the whites.
And so, by bold forays from this natural stronghold, he regained the confidence of his adherents, won over the waverers, and paved the way for his eventual triumph over the pagan foe and the complete recovery of his power.
Half of this period of five months must be considered to have been spent upon the land, in surveys of the coast, in repairs of the vessels, and in forays in search of food and water.
He was never trusted, or at least he was never asked, to take part in any of the forays against the white frontier, when from time to time parties were sent to the Pennsylvania borders to take scalps and steal horses.
In the end they failed, and then they made peace again, but still they kept up their forays along the English borders.
During the Revolutionary war, in one of the numerous forays of the British soldiers, her father's house was burned, and she was infamously treated.
We certainly achieved wonders in arithmetic, according to our own conceptions, some of us going even beyond the Rule of Three, and making forays into the mysterious regions of Vulgar Fractions.
His great success, however, in his forays against the Moors made Doña Teresa fearful lest some harm might befall her sluggish son, King Sancho.
It is by their aid that he will live upon the plunder of the rich caravans that may venture upon his territory, and will make forays from the land of hunger and thirst into the land of abundance.
In these forays the shepherds are usually spared; nor do they, indeed, take much trouble to defend property that does not belong to them.
The only remedy, therefore, was to subjugate the savages immediately engaged in the forays by forcing the several tribes to settle down on the reservations set apart by the treaty of Medicine Lodge.
Their feebleforays were quickly replaced by bold and daring ones.
Others of them made forays on the lands of those of the opposite faction, and seized cattle, horses, sheep, and men alike carrying off the English in chains, that they might force them by torture to yield what wealth they possessed.
In the old days foraysand raids tended more or less to keep the stock down.
As a passing thought, it is a curious and formidable fact that the prohibition of intertribal wars and forays all through East Central Africa had already permitted the population to increase to a point of discomfort.
Year by year their fleets became larger, and their attacks changed from mere forays of pirates to well-organized expeditions of conquest and colonization.
More often than not, these head-hunting forays are unconnected with cannibalism, the mere possession of skulls being the principal object of the expedition.
In our time, this chief conducted his foraysless openly, and I saw no evidence of his work in the tambu-houses of his village.
Then came Champlain, its white discoverer, to aid the Hurons with his arquebuse in theirforays upon the Mohawks and Iroquois.
For thirty years this fort was the base of supplies for forays on the colonial settlements, but it fell before Lord Amherst's march northward in 1759.
And the Great Kaan from year's end to year's end keeps an army watching all Caidu's frontier, lest he should makeforays on his dominions.
And Abaga, to watch against forays by Caidu's people sent his son Argon with a great force of horsemen, to keep the marches between the Arbre Sec and the River Jon.
Having been at last thoroughly fortified according to the principles of the age, it was a place whence much damage was inflicted upon the enemy, and whence forays upon the obedient Flemings could very successfully be conducted.
There was abundant proof that the authorities of New France, instructed by the government at Paris, were actively inciting the red savages to forays for scalps and plunder.
The following spring and summer Philip again made bloodyforays on the settlements; but he was persistently attacked, his followers were scattered, and he was at last driven, with a handful of followers, into a swamp on Mount Hope.
The English conducted a series of savage forays across the Scottish border.
The Indian forays at once created a general panic throughout this region, heretofore considered safe.
It is thought by some writers that young Boone, then twenty years of age, served in the Pennsylvania militia which protected the frontier from the Indian forays which succeeded this episode.
The April forays created almost as much consternation at Charleston as on the Yadkin.
This life-history will, to its close, have much to do with Indian forays and white reprisals, and it is well that we should consider them dispassionately.
Occasionally he is accompanied and assisted in his forays by daring men from various commands, who are at home on leaves of absence or furloughs, while a few seem to be directly and continually under his control.
The success which characterized these forays was not only disgraceful to ourselves, and very disheartening, but it gave the Rebels an audacious effrontery and malignant boldness, which led them into more frequent and reckless movements.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
