Also he could not wait for the relief party, for his Gippies and the friendlies were famishing, dying of thirst.
The Gippies and the friendlies scowled, but did not speak.
At all events the incident shamed the Government into taking more adequate measures to protect its friendlies in spite of bitter Nationalist opposition.
The Maxim was put out of action by an unlucky bullet, and the friendlies skedaddled with their Government rifles at the first shot, but returned later to loot the dead.
In this loose and desultory but exceedingly arduous warfare, the irregulars and friendlies undoubtedly proved far more efficient than the regular troops had usually been permitted to be.
For months the friendlies had been guarding the passage of the river against a strong Hau-Hau force.
The loss among the friendlies and the support amounted to twenty men killed and two British officers and twenty-eight men wounded.
On the 2nd of September Major Stuart Wortley and his friendlies had a brisk engagement with Emir Isa Zaccharia.
When daylight came we could see Abdul Azim's friendlies upon the opposite side of the Nile.
A piece of good news came to us from the friendliesover the river.
Other friendlies lay about outside, hearkening and watching, to warn us of any attempt of the enemy to surprise the zereba.
Help was given to them, and bodies of friendlies were got together to seize Senaar and other important places.
The friendlies also had the luck to capture a dervish sailing boat laden with grain.
Hundreds of dervishes were slain, and ultimately many who escaped were so closely pressed by friendlies and Abyssinians that they surrendered.
On Friday, the 26th of August, after a great fantasia and war-dance, Stuart Wortley's column of armed friendlies moved south.
The friendlies were most enthusiastic and eagerly asked to be led against their dervish enemies.
The charge was successful, and, backed up by Captain Taylor and Colenbrander's Cape Boys armed with rifles, theFriendlies cleared the bush and relieved Dawson from the hidden enemy.
He had seen Jamal's roll and started to cut him down with a blast, but then he thought better of it: there were too many friendlies to take a chance on ricocheting lead.
We'll go over the blueprints and compare them against the disposition of the friendlies and hostiles using his intel.
Looks to be a clean job as far as the friendlies are concerned.
This wasn't the movies, with the assault team standing tall and shooting from the hip, particularly with all the friendlies milling in the haze of tear gas.
Right now there are friendlies in Command and down at Launch.
The friendlies would be blinded and overcome, he knew, but the effects would only last for a few minutes and by that time everybody could be dragged into the open air.
It was arranged that the gunboats should steam on ahead and shell the villages and forts from the river, while the Friendlies advanced along the bank.
By far the most useful and important section of these Friendlies was furnished by the Gaalin, a brave and warlike tribe, who fought gallantly against the British at Abu Klea, Abu Kru, and Gubat in January 1885.
The Gaalin and the otherFriendlies crossed over from Wad Hamed, and were ordered to proceed along the river parallel to the advance of the Anglo-Egyptian forces on the opposite bank.
Friendlies were disembarked on the right bank, where they remained with the howitzer battery and the British detachment under Captain Ferguson of the Northumberland Fusiliers.
These friendlies were wonderfully spick and span, with nice clean clothes.
Immediately after this fighting round Halfayah, two hundred and fifty Shukriyeh Friendlies were dispatched up the Blue Nile in pursuit of the Dervishes who had fled.
These friendlies had suffered severely at the Mullah's hands for years, and were dying to see the last of him.
The latter will have the best chance, for the friendlies at Kassala will be on the lookout for fugitives.
And then our so-called friendlies are known to be supplying them with information of our moves, as well as with such luxuries as Kaffir beer and cartridges.
The forts are then to act as police posts in the future, to ensure the peace of every outside district, by standing as a sword of Damocles to all offenders, and a handy tower of refuge for friendlies who are oppressed.
That the enemy should leave these cattle untouched was a revelation to me, and I then saw that the so-called friendlieswere on pretty good terms with the rebels.
They were brought, but the friendlies who carried them, like the hen that laid the rotten egg, were nervous, and had dropped them in the river, they themselves taking up positions of safety till the fighting was over.
Had the Matabele come out of their caves, given one war-whoop, and made a show of descending upon the besiegers, those preciousfriendlies would assuredly have turned tail and bolted.
The friendlies surprised and captured the enemy's camp.
In this engagement Kitchener and Lieutenant McMurdo were wounded, and eleven soldiers and friendlies were killed.
On the 17th, a party of friendlies attacked the Dervish camp at daybreak.
Two thousand pounds was paid to the friendlies by way of subsidy, and trade with the interior was opened.
Several villages were found occupied, but these thefriendlies took one after another.
The friendlies then began to take courage, and made advances upon Tamaai, which they blockaded, and eventually occupied on 11th September, the Soudanese garrison retiring with loss into a fort near the village.
On the 7th October the friendlies scored a further success.
Then the Dervishes scattered in the pursuit re-entered the position from the rear, and drove off the friendlies with considerable loss.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "friendlies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
