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Example sentences for "great disorder"

  • They find the brigades of Bee, Bartow, and Evans, falling back in great disorder, and taking shelter in a wooded ravine, South of the Robinson House and of the Warrenton Pike.

  • The roads and the posting service were in great disorder.

  • Disembarking in great disorder at Valvin, where their equipages were waiting for there, they arrived at Fontainebleau two hours after midnight.

  • The enemy having lost all the strong positions on that memorable field, his troops fell back in great disorder on the banks of the Tennessee.

  • Cleburne, of Hill's corps, immediately on reaching the right, closed so impetuously with the enemy as to create surprise, and drove him in great disorder.

  • In three days after his departure, king Philip abandoned the siege and retired in great disorder, leaving behind his tents, with the sick and wounded.

  • The infantry, seeing themselves abandoned in the plain, retreated in great disorder, between the villages of Heylesem and Golsteven, where they were joined by the rest of their army, and formed again in order of battle.

  • But the shout having reached Verrugo, when they thought that the Roman camp was attacked, occasioned such a panic, that in spite of the entreaties of Æmilius and his efforts to stop them, they fled to Tusculum in great disorder.

  • But the Cuman cohorts, opposing stratagem to force, moved off a little to one side, and when the enemy were carried beyond them in great disorder, they faced about and charged them in the rear.

  • The smoke and flame of their battle is now less than one hundred paces from the wall, but the odds are against them, and they, too, had to finally yield to the inevitable and leave the field in great disorder.

  • Areus came thither, too, with one thousand Cretans, and some of the most active men among the Spartans, and all falling on at once upon the Gauls, put them in great disorder.

  • Upon this, turning upon one another, they broke out into insulting words, so that the theater was in great disorder.

  • In the meantime comes Rubrius in great disorder, crying out, the three hundred were all in commotion, and exciting revolt and tumult in the city.

  • After a severe fight, the rebels were forced to flee across the run in great disorder, leaving in the hands of the Second corps five pieces of artillery, two stands of colors, and four hundred and fifty prisoners.

  • Every regimental quartermaster was for himself, and, as a natural result, the immense trains were thrown into great disorder, impeding the movements of all the other branches of the service.

  • The Confederates fell back in great disorder, and we advanced in disorder just as great.

  • He stated that General Hill had been wounded, and that the troops were in great disorder.

  • His second line, however, had not yet deployed, and a vigorous counterstroke, delivered by two brigades, drove back the whole of his leading division in great disorder.

  • The Federal infantry gave way in great disorder.

  • My own proper accounts are in great disorder, having been neglected about a month.

  • So we with great affright turned back, being holden to the gentleman: and went away (I for my part in great disorder) for Kensington.

  • The rooms were in great disorder, and had been subjected to an exhaustive search; even the books had been tumbled out of their shelves and thrown on the floor.

  • Illustration: The rooms were in great disorder, and had been subjected to an exhaustive search.

  • They were soon routed and driven in great disorder back to and across Goose River.

  • He followed Warner on a narrow road, which was thronged with troops in great disorder.

  • They retreated through the woods and on different roads in great disorder; our forces followed up their lines of retreat and kept a constant fire upon them until night intervened, which protected them from any further disaster.

  • The enemy on their left commenced a retreat down the Sheepstown road in great disorder.

  • The French Division, which had been attacked by three German Corps, effected a retreat after an obstinate struggle, though in great disorder, having suffered much loss.

  • And when the Bavarian horse-batteries opened fire on Champs from the north-east, the French abandoned the place at about two o'clock, in great disorder.

  • Feinberg found it "undone and in great disorder" at 8.

  • As for Caesar, he arrived not long after in Egypt, which he found in great disorder.

  • Upon this, turning upon one another, they broke out into insulting words, so that the theatre was in great disorder.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great assembly; great attraction; great authority; great bend; great blessing; great credit; great danger; great deal; great effort; great estimation; great flood; great help; great importance; great joy; great letter; great literature; great mortality; great ones; great peace; great place; great poet; great public; great saving; great thickness; great wealth; greater proportion