Burckhardt landed in Jidda in July 1814, when Mehemet Ali had already driven the Wahhabi invaders out of Hejaz, and was preparing for his farther advance against their stronghold in Nejd.
When I asked it how to preserve Earth from the invaders it just answered 'A Stitch in Time Saves Nine,' and wouldn't interpret it.
If the Oracle means anything at all by his statement, I suppose it means that we can use stitching to help defend ourselves, just as the invaders are using it to attack us.
When the invaders arrived, we would be gone--Earth and Sun and all the rest!
I'm afraid that the Solar System is going to be right here when the invaders come to get us.
With our example to guide them, the invaders can use stitching to escape us as easily as we can use it to escape them.
Why don't we just find the invaders and wipe them out before they are able to do any real harm to us?
The invaders may eventually find out a method of countering our defense," said the Chief Scientist, "but it will undoubtedly take a great deal of time.
For example, we could disperse colonies so widely that it would become impossible for the invaders to destroy all of them.
Even if the invaders are right on top of us when we reappear, we'll be gone again before they can do anything.
I don't think the invaderswill be able to locate this needle.
After all, the invaders are already invading us, aren't they?
Say that we have two years before the invaders work their way in to the Solar System.
If we don't contact each other," he said, "I am certain that the invaders will some day find a means of penetrating our defenses.
It was vain to think of a refuge, for the invaders were in a hostile country, with no place of sufficient strength to afford a chance of security.
Many of them received the invaders into their houses as guests, and others freely opened their coffers, and parted with their gold in consideration of being protected.
So Philip of Valois entertained the princes and great lords of his army at supper; and, next morning, after hearing mass, he set out in pursuit of the invaders who had wrought him so much mischief and caused him so much trouble.
But, ere the prince could reach Poictiers, the danger which had for some time been threatening his little army of invaders was drawing near; and rumour brought vague intelligence that John of Valois was at hand.
Accordingly the army began its march southward, and the Scots had every prospect of getting rid of the invaders on cheap terms.
But the invaders were in no mood to spare either corn, or grapes, or fruit.
And fearful it was to think that, of the mighty army which, twenty-four hours earlier, was marching to Cressy from Abbeville to exterminate the invaders with shouts of "Kill!
The reverse was the case; for the march of the invaders had been rapid; and on Friday, the 16th of October, the Scottish vanguard came near the town, and skirmished with some parties of English who were abroad.
Indeed, the martial chief of the English invaders lost no time in making his presence felt, and adding to the terror which the news of his landing had inspired.
But in November, 1339, the English began the war by wasting Cambresis; and about the middle of October, Philip of Valois advanced with a mighty army to give the invaders battle.
In the border wars of the Aryans, with rival invaders on the one hand, and with the conquered but ever restless aborigines on the other, great and popular heroes had sprung up.
But Hindu fatalists, noble Aryans as they were at first, have been conquered by every race of invaders that has chosen to assail them.
By an equal exaggeration the hostile chiefs of rival invaders were transformed to demons, and the black, repulsive hill tribes, who were involved as allies in these conflicts, were represented as apes.
Indeed, in one battle after being defeated on open ground they drew the invaders toward that spot in pursuit, and killed many of them.
Khammurabi the Great Like that which preceded it, the dynasty of Ur fell, and Arabian or Canaanite invadersusurped the royal power in much the same manner as the Shepherd Kings seized the sovereignty of Egypt.
Hezekiah had allied himself with the Philistine princes of Ascalon and Ekron, but when he saw his Egyptian allies beaten at the battle of Eltekeh he endeavoured to buy off the invaders by numerous presents, though without success.
The manner in which he overcame the invaders is by no means clear from the text, but it would seem that he annihilated them by means of a deluge.
Another great battle was fought at Panipat between the Afghan invaders from the North and the flower of the Mahratta army.
And while the hearts of fathers and mothers went out to the boys in the French army in blue, at this early stage of the great war they did not doubt but that the invaders would be soon driven back to their Northern country.
In those black days when the invaders were rushing toward Paris many stories just as improbable found ready listeners, and were fully believed by the credulous peasants.
Nor were the Slavonians even the first invaders who disturbed this distribution; since Turk populations different from and earlier than the Turks of the thirteenth century were settled in Southern Russia in the fifth century B.
The estimates transmitted to us of the numbers of the invaders and of the slain, are such as almost surpass belief.
The areas which were successively appropriated by these invaders are not exactly those that we expect, a priori.
In my own mind, I think that Getic legends and Getic history is the rule, Germanic the exception; in other words, that the so-called Gothic history is the history of the indigenae rather than that of the invaders of the soil.
The exact degree to which Jornandes confounded the German invaders with the original Goths is uncertain.
The legends of the soil and the legends of its invaders have been mixed together.
The intermixture of blood, and, consequently, the purity of the present stock, I believe to have varied with the different populations with which the Germanic invaderscame in contact.
Suder-mannaland, or Suder-mania; a name which is explained if we make them the most southern of the invaders from Norway, but not easily explicable otherwise.
The masses of invaders everywhere retreated; the Quadi sent in their submission to the imperial generals, and in many cases the leaders of the movement directed against the Romans paid for this reaction with their lives.
At the mouth of the Almendares River, where it was supposed that invaderswere likely to land, horsemen were stationed, to hasten back to the city with news of any such landing or of the appearance of a hostile vessel.
The invaderswere commanded by Captain Sores in person.
The patriarch had returned in peace from an expedition in which he had overthrown the invaders of Canaan; he had restored peace to the country of the priest-king, and had driven away its enemies.
They too were classed among the Rephaim or "giants," by the side of whom the Israelite invaders were but as "grasshoppers.
Scarabs exist, which he assigns to the period when Egypt was ruled by invaders from Asia, and on which is written the name of a Pharaoh Ya'aqub-hal or Jacob-el.
The ships of the invaders were captured or sunk, and their forces on land were decimated.
Bashan and the eastern bank of the Jordan were subjugated, the Horites in Mount Seir were smitten, and the invaders then turned back through Kadesh-barnea, overthrowing the Amalekites and the Amorites on their way.
Everything had gone down before the savage onslaught of those merciless invadersfrom space.
The terrible results achieved by the invadershad produced everywhere a mingled feeling of consternation and hopelessness.
He confirmed our opinion that certain of the works which we saw beneath us were fortifications, intended for the protection of the planet against invaders from outer space.
The invaders burned their village, for which the natives threatened retaliation, saying they would burn the houses of the Spanish settlement.
At the town of Calabazan the Spaniards were duped by the few natives found there, who claimed to be natives of Cebú, and asked the invaders to wait two days and they would bring the chiefs of this town to make peace and friendship.
At length, kind Heaven smiled on the good cause, and the beateninvaders fled.
In justice to those who compiled the various Irish annals, it must be said that they always freely acknowledge when the invaders had the best of it in a battle.
Hugo de Lacy was undoubtedly the greatest of the Anglo-French invaders of Ireland.
O'Dugan, in his topographical poem, written in the fourteenth century, tells of clans inhabiting the English Pale, when they had been banished westward by the invaders nearly two hundred years before he wrote.
The Irish knew how to build round towers and churches, but seem never to have thought of building castles until their invaders taught them to build them.
The victory of the Spaniards in the summer had forced the invaders to retire into the district between the Ebro and the Pyrenees, and the Ebro now formed the dividing-line between the hostile armies.
When Kutusoff reached the camp, the prolonged miseries of the French advance had already reduced the invaders to the number of the army opposed to them.
He abandoned all hope of resisting the invaders in front: it only remained for him to throw himself on to their rear, and, in company with the frontier-garrisons and the army of Lyons, to attack their communications with Germany.
The mountains were crossed without difficulty, and on the 19th of August the invaders appeared before Adrianople, which immediately surrendered.
But Napoleon already saw himself in imagination driving the invaders beyond the Rhine, and sent orders to Caulaincourt to insist upon the terms proposed at Frankfort, which left to France both the Rhenish Provinces and Belgium.
Athens, and the miserable licking which the Athenian invaders received in Sicily.
The modern Hungarians (excluding Slavonic elements) are probably a mixture of these Magyars with the remnants of older invaderssuch as Huns, Petchenegs and Kumans.
Dermot, an Irish chief, expelled for his tyranny, had brought these invaders on his country as the instruments of his revenge.
These discussions, together with the positive rejection by CortA(C)z of the Spanish petition, seem to have allayed the anxiety of the invaders to return to Vera Cruz.
After a full reconnoissance it was his opinion that it afforded a favorable spot in which the invaders might be at least injured or checked, but that was not the proper point to dispute their passage to the capital by a decisive victory.
But the small band of invaders had, for a moment only, appalled the Mexicans, who rallied in numbers at this daring outrage, and sprang vindictively upon the sacrilegious assailants.
Mexico, too, was not an ordinary town with wide thoroughfares and houses like those in which the invaders had been accustomed to dwell.
There was, for the moment, utter disorganization among the discomfited, while the jaded band of a few thousand invaders had to be rallied and reformed in their ranks and regiments after the desperate conflicts of the day over so wide a field.
But this time the invaders advanced more cautiously into the heart of the city, where they fired and destroyed their ancient quarters in the old palace of Axayacatl and the edifices adjoining the royal palace on the other side of the square.
The next day the invadersquitted their encampment on the battle field and hastened towards the territory of their friends, the Tlascalans.
The Havanese fought bravely with various success against the invaders until the 30th of July, when the Spaniards, satisfied that all further defence was vain and rash, surrendered the Moro Castle to the foe.
Karungu was also besieged on Lake Victoria Nyanza, but relieved by a couple of British vessels; the invaders of Northern Rhodesia were beaten back; and a naval force bombarded Dar-es-Salaam and destroyed the wireless installation.
Cruel god of a horde of nomadicinvaders settling in a land of farmers, he had his images, ranging in elaboration from an uncut mazzebah or asherah, to a golden bull.
Migrating into Egypt in search of food, they were made a captive nation and escaped again into the desert when the Egyptians were engaged in fighting the savage invaders from Libya.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invaders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
