The two hostiles reopened fire on him, and he swerved, straightened out and went off in a bee-line at top speed.
Our reconnoitring and gun-spotting machines were quartering the ground in search of targets, the scout machines sweeping to and fro above them ready to drop on any hostiles which tried to interrupt them in their work.
On the other hand, the white man whose very own may have been killed or captured by a party of hostiles forced to the warpath by the machinations of some unscrupulous Government employé, can see nothing that is good in the Indian.
The hostilesmade their escape, practically all of them leaving the valley.
Even the hostiles had obeyed the agent's order, and came in close to the troops, totally unlike hostiles in general; for Cheschapah had told them he would protect them with his medicine, and they shouted and sang all through this last night.
I was up by the tepees near the agency just now, and I could see the hostiles jamming back home for dear life.
They watched him and the gray pony pass and return to the hostiles on the hill.
Cheschapah gathered his hostiles along the brow of the ridge in the rear of the agency buildings, and the two forces watched each other across the intervening four hundred yards.
There was an expensive quantity of investigation from Washington, and this gave the hostiles time to increase both in faith and numbers.
The hostiles had fallen back after some hot shooting, and had dispersed among the brush and tepees on the farther shore, picking up their dead, as Indians do.
The hostiles had discovered us at once and took the initiative by making a vicious charge up the hill.
Only the strength of our position prevented our meeting a fate like that of Custer, and it was after dark before the hostiles gave up their attempt to dislodge and slaughter us.
The soldiers appeared to be very cool and poured in a murderous fire, which forced the hostiles to fall back with heavy loss.
I had been in the skirmish line, and when we were driven back by the hostiles we retreated slowly, protecting the withdrawal of the main body of Reno’s command.
We had discovered the hostiles camped near the Little Big Horn and about seven miles straight ahead of the soldiers.
The troops were shut out from view on the part of the hostiles by a ridge of land, and it was at the base of this that the council of war was held.
They had discussed renewing radio contact with the woman named Andros, in hopes she might be able to give them an update on the disposition of the hostiles and friendlies.
He would set up there, a look-down spot from where he could handle the standoff- sniper chores, ready at any time to neutralize any hostiles who might emerge from Launch.
For purposes of your mission debriefing, can you just say the precise number of hostiles remains to be fully established?
We'll go over the blueprints and compare them against the disposition of the friendlies and hostiles using his intel.
Could you stay by the radio and assist us after insertion, telling us--as best you know--how the hostilesare deployed?
They would be making a scuba insertion onto a Greek island-- operational maps with the general geography were in the packet--where an unknown number of hostiles had seized an American industrial facility and were holding hostages.
That was when Vance was scheduled to radio his intel on the disposition of the hostiles and the friendlies.
While Willem Voorst and Dimitri Spiros were still firing, hoping to draw the attention of the hostiles away from Team Two, Hans rotated on his rope, and took measure of the room.
Looks like half our hostiles are outside and in the clear.
The hostiles were chiefly composed of Wyandots and Mingoes, but with them were a few Shawnees and Delawares.
It seems certain that a few hostiles were with the Moravians at the time of the massacre.
On May 12 a serious fight of Mexican troops with the hostiles near Planchos, Mexico, resulted in a partial defeat of the Mexicans.
The usual series of outrages, with fatiguing chase by troops, continued until June 21, when the Mexicans engaged the hostiles about 40 miles southeast of Magdalena, Mexico, and after a stubborn fight repulsed them.
Denny saw him go on a mission down the bay at the request of the navy officers, to ascertain the position of the hostiles in the north part of the town.
Denny and was nicknamed "Denny Jim," played an important part as a spy in a council of the hostiles and gave the warning to Captain Gansevoort of the Decatur of the impending battle.
This fact, perhaps, had much to do with his escape from assassination at the hands of the hostilesin the Indian war of 1855.
The first decided move of the hostiles was the attack on the White River settlers, burning, killing and destroying as is the wont of a savage foe.
A gang o' hostiles are in sight--not many; they've got our horses.
Hostiles is about the last name to apply to them, I should imagine," remarked Stuart; "they are as peaceable as sheep.
The hostiles did not keep their pledge with the ranchmen strictly.
Many of the citizens urged Rawn to allow the hostiles to pass on their own terms.
He felt himself and his little army equal to a contest with the band of hostiles in his front, and the result proved that he was correct in his estimate.
Then he went out of the stockade to see how the hostiles were getting on, but found that they and the cavalrymen had long ago disappeared.
When did you see the hostiles last, and where were they?
Turner evidently had no idea the hostiles were all about us, and he thinks the previous despatch must have reached us.
Moreover, with so manyhostiles on every side, was he justified in stripping the post of its defenders?
The Apache-Mohaves may be with the hostiles at last, but not 'Tonio.
They could be counted on to find the hostilesand punish them wherever found.
But for Stannard the hostiles would have gotten away, not only with Mrs. Bennett, but with Harris.
It was only here, round about Almy, the hostiles were too many for them!
Had it been that there were two or more hostiles stealing into camp, they could not have asked a better opportunity, for it was left wholly unguarded.
All our readers know how many times the fierce Geronimo and a few of his hostiles broke away from their reservation, and, riding swiftly through Arizona and New Mexico, spread desolation, woe and death in their path.
He had been with Crook and knew that hostiles did not come out, shake their red blankets and dare the soldiers to a fight, so he barricaded his camp, using the apparajos as breast works and told the packers to "let the mules go to the devil.
The hostiles had fled and were nowhere to be found.
Wheaton on the 17th of January was to form a cordon of troops around the hostiles and either kill or capture them.
A strong detachment will hold the edge of the precipice to prevent any of the hostiles from getting above and killing our people with their rifles.
Glendive, Montana, was attacked by the Sioux, and, after the hostiles had been driven off, the troops who escorted the train moved to a place called Clear Creek.
It proved to be a complete success and the hostiles were severely punished, many being killed and hundreds of horses captured.
Because so far we haven't seen a sign of the hostiles beyond that signal in the spring.
His belief that he could talk peace terms to the hostiles was ludicrous.
Whether Le Borgne and the hostiles of the massacre lied or no, they both told the same story of Jack.
Then thehostiles left the dead and the half-dead for the wolves.
The Indians led us to the lodges of the hostiles safely enough; and their return gave us entrance if not welcome to the tepee village.
Her people were all dead; she could not go back to her tribe--if Jack had left her in the north, the hostiles would have killed her.
We hid in the bush till the hostiles quit cruisin'; but the spring storms caught us when we started for the coast.
The fire was but a few feet from the cave which could be seen dimly in the background, and it was quite evident the hostiles felt very secure in their retreat.
A vigorous military campaign was carried on under General Miles against the hostiles until, in the spring of 1875, the main body surrendered.
Public sentiment at the East, knowing no difference between different tribes of Sioux, regarded it as maudlin sentimentalism to claim for the Santees any more rights than for the hostiles that had murdered General Custer.
This leader of the hostiles in the Creek war was the son of a white father and a halfbreed woman of Tuskegee town whose father had been a Scotchman.
Leaving his stores here with a garrison to protect them, he began his march for the Horseshoe bend of the Tallapoosa, where the hostiles were reported to have collected in great force.
Then a bullet caught my mustang and ploughed him underneath And he bolted toward the hostiles with the bit between his teeth.
The hostiles quickly got the range, but as soon as the bullets commenced to sing around him in dangerous proximity, Seattle's feet flashed in air as he made a headlong plunge down the bank.
A small force under Major Haller was sent into the Yakima country to reduce the hostiles to subjection.
He reduced the hostiles about one-half in a year and a half; they reduced them about the one-twentieth in a year.
As violators of this truce, General Jesup had a right to detain any of the hostiles which came into his hands, and Osceola was one of these.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hostiles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
