While the fire was rendering desolate this street, the other wing of it was ruthlessly invading Germain Street, to the very water's edge.
Famine and fever so reduced it that the duke of Anjou was not able to defend himself, let alone invading the enemy’s territory.
But no invading army would enter France before the grain was cut and stacked (cf.
Possibly these preparations are being made against the insurgents of France, but it is doubtful whether under pretense of invading Scotland.
Mobile I called you to take up arms, inviting you to partake the perils and glory of your white fellow- citizens, I expected much from you; for I was not ignorant that you possessed qualities most formidable to an invading enemy.
The brotherhood, remarkable for its austere and fanatical zeal, has ramified into many parts of N Africa, and exercises considerable influence, fostering resistance to the encroachments of the invading European powers.
Jewish worship according to the ritual of Moses, as recently come to light in the discovery by Hilkiah the high-priest of the "Book of the Law"; he fell in battle before an invading Assyrian host.
Scotland; was taken captive when invading England at Alnwick Castle in 1174; sent prisoner to Falaise, in Normandy, but liberated on acknowledgment of vassalage to the English king, a claim which Richard I.
Bethel, and the spot over which Joshua bade the sun stand still; its inhabitants, for a trick they played on the invading Israelites, wore condemned to serve them as "hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Wales; conjectured to be of Non-Aryan stock, and akin to the Iberians; offered a fierce resistance to the invading Romans.
For they say that Cyrus also marched into this region for the purpose of invading India; but that he did not effect his retreat before losing the greater part of his army, from the desert and the other difficulties of this route.
While it was on the great highway which led along the central plateau from northern Israel to Hebron and the South Country, large invading armies never advanced against Jerusalem by this difficult mountain road.
Fortunately for them the Syrian king was intent upon invading Parthia and, therefore, in order to secure the support of John Hyrcanus, left him in possession of his kingdom.
Nor were they able to discriminate between their own gross materialism and the lofty, hidden aims of the invading Israelites.
This king summoned the inhabitants of the allied cities to take up arms and destroy the invading Israelites.
Apparently the Idumeans were afraid that the invading Israelites would dispossess them of the land, and they therefore sallied forth to obstruct the direct road.
The growth extends by invading the tissues surrounding it, and frequently gives rise to secondary cancerous deposits in other organs of the body.
The British army fulfilled this pledge, and the barrier thus held and maintained during the subsequent retreat, though shattered in parts, saved the French left from being outflanked by the invading right wing of the Germans under von Kluck.
Austria's first punitive expedition, heralded by the bombardment of Belgrade on 29th July, was easily checked, the main invading forces being withdrawn to meet the new situation on the Russian front.
Brussiloff was meantime sweeping on towards the Carpathian passes, while Ivanoff, commanding the Russians in Poland, forced back the invading armies under Dankl and the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand beyond the Vistula and Cracow.
The Eastern Aryans took possession of Persia, and, invading India, gradually made themselves masters of the country as far as the Ganges.
Descendants of Constantine occupied the palace for a period, then it passed to the Gauls, to the Goths, and so down the invading and conquering line.
With their eyes fixed upon the left bank, they are just now far more occupied with the invasion of Germany by the Romans, than with the thought of invading Gaul themselves.
Perhaps they were more liable to be invaded than the Sons of the North; the Scandinavians invaded the continent {171}in all directions, but no one ever dreamt of invading their country.
Patiently they submitted to the expulsion from the Bitter Root, but now in the darkness of gathering years once more they must strike their tipis to make room for the invading hosts.
This tragical incident and the more awful menace it carried with it to those who were left at the mercy of the invading tribes, and another reason we shall now consider, led to the temporary abandonment of St. Mary's.
It was not long before Du Guesclin was able to pay the money, and hastened to join Henry, who was already successfully invading Castile.
He was obliged to return to resist them, and punished their inroad by invading Scotland, and spreading such destruction wherever he went, that the Scots long spoke of the time of this invasion as "Burnt Candlemas.
Ultimately, its fate was as that of a land wilfully devastated by its own people to hamper the march of an invading army.
With all the houses and the countryside dark, the rays of our lamp seemed an invading comet to the men who held up lanterns with red twinkles of warning.
This is what you get for invading our country; and you'll get more of it!
So dispirited had John Balliol’s subjects become that the castle garrison fled at the approach of the invading host, leaving only the porter to deliver the keys of the fortress to the English King.
Bruce, in order to checkmate his opponent, faced the enormous invading host with the prize of the conflict at his back.
In the time of King Asa, the invadingarmy is described thus: “And there came out against them Zerah, the Ethiopian, with a host of a thousand thousand and three hundred chariots.
The invading army, at that time, was denominated Ethiopian, although it is evident that many of the Hamitic tribes composed it.
Napoleon's next move was definitely to announce his intention of invading England, of conquering the country, and of making it into a province of France--a feat more easily talked of than accomplished.
But those invading noises were transmuted to a mere murmuring in here; only the silence and the twilight were real to Pierson, standing there, a little black figure in a great empty space.
A new idea invading the country of the Squire's mind was at once met with a rising of the whole population, and either prevented from landing, or if already on shore instantly taken prisoner.
Their talk, like that of many dozens of fine couples invading London from their country places, was of where to dine, what theatre they should go to, whom they had seen, what they should buy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: belligerent; driving; invasive
