Allred took a company of ten mounted men and started to intercept the transport.
As the brethren approached Richmond, threats were made that they should not pass through the town, and rumor had it that a force of men was in waiting to intercept them.
The admiral left General Sacken, a brave and active officer, to observe Schwartzenberg and Regnier, and keep them at least in check, whilst he himself retrograded towards the Beresina, where he expected to be able to intercept Buonaparte.
The King did not take any measures to intercept the retreat even of Napoleon himself, although there was ground to expect he might have come to that resolution.
These headings intercept many fissures and materially add to the yield.
But if tunnels be driven from the shaft along the strike of the stratum, as at m c, n d, these tunnels will obviously intercept the water which flows past the shaft.
Captain Cook, who was then on shore, endeavoured to intercept his landing; but it seems, that he was led out of the way by some of the natives, who had officiously intruded themselves as guides.
Mrs. West, who knowing of her determination, and anxious as to her fate, had arrived at the cottage that morning too late to intercept Molly.
At that distance your own supplies are more easily procured, and your light cavalry can readily intercept the enemy's convoys, whilst the garrison cannot attack you, except at every disadvantage, and without artillery.
An Indian scout had discovered the trail of the white men and sent the whole band scouring ahead to intercept them at this narrow pass.
He also posted a large body as a corps of observation in the environs of Cuzco, to watch the movements of the enemy, and to intercept supplies.
He was two leagues from the coast, and he posted a guard on the shore to intercept all communication with the vessels.
Though scarcely crediting it, he detached one of his company, named Diaz, with a force to intercept him.
This Dillon had also planned that expresses should journey to a seaport at the south, with the intelligence that your vessels were in these seas, in order that ships might be dispatched to intercept your retreat.
As Griffith and his companions rushed from the offices of St. Ruth into the open air, they encountered no one to intercept their flight, or communicate the alarm.
The king had been recognized at Sainte Menehould by the landlord of the post house, and as the night fell, the eastward roads clattered with galloping messengers rousing the country, and trying to intercept the fugitives.
At the outbreak of the war he had been sent by sea to Marseilles to intercept Hannibal; he arrived three days late, and, instead of pursuing him, he sent on his army into Spain to cut up Hannibal's supplies and reinforcements.
As we watched closely these supposed antelope; we remarked that they kept in Indian file, and that the course they were on would diagonallyintercept our own point of the compass.
Kit Carson's duty in this place was tointercept the Indians and examine their papers and cargoes.
He then took another; but they made a further attempt to intercept his passage by occupying the country between the Serra Albardos[1058] and the sea.
He had made no effort to interrupt or intercept me.
She was on her feet and half-way across the room before I couldintercept her.
On the other hand, fogs and clouds intercept the rays of the sun also, and hinder its heat from reaching the earth.
Preparations accordingly were made, but it was found that a large body of Indians was on the road with a view to intercept his march.
It was resolved the next morning, in a council of war, to send out a large detachment of men to intercept Dieskau's army on its way.
What better mode could have been adopted, to prevent Indian hostility and intercept British supplies of the instruments of massacre?
He wished not to throw in a cloud to intercept that glimpse which was supposed to be breaking upon us.
In case you had a number sufficient to intercept their East India fleet, which, generally, are under strong convoys of heavy ships, then it might be an object to send them to sea.
Lord Howard took up his station at Plymouth, whence he purposed to intercept the Armada as it came; Sir Francis Drake was sent to the west with sixty-five vessels.
Lord Henry Seymour was sent off to guard the seas, and to intercept intercourse between Spain and her Flemish ports.
We must make a circuit and intercept them, without their being aware that we are in pursuit.
Unfortunately for the armed pilgrims, their resolution was no secret to the Saracens, and when Touran Chah became aware of their intended movement down the Nile, he devised measures to intercept them.
Accordingly, preparations for the expedition were made; and, next morning, Salisbury and his knights dashed away from Damietta to intercept the caravan that was reported to be on its way to Alexandria.
They were but some eighty miles distant from Barrow's Straits, with every prospect of gaining them, and being able the following season to return home, when a heavy barrier of ice rose before them to intercept their progress.
He likewise ordained that no cows should thenceforward be killed throughout the land, and finished by pronouncing a malediction upon the head of any one who should intercept the imperial courier.
As Kilpatrick's division was waiting to intercept him at Littlestown, this consideration became a matter of considerable importance.
Stuart was undoubtedly baffled and the object of his expedition frustrated; yet he stated in his official report that he was in a position to intercept the Union retreat in case Pickett had been successful.
