Accordingly, about midnight, when the attack was to have been made, away they went, and retired nearly into their lines, leaving only a few to keep the ground.
On October 27 Grave was captured, leaving onlyone of the Dutch fortresses, Maestricht, in the hands of the French.
Returning, however, about a month later, the Dutch admiral found that De Castro had sailed away, leaving only a detachment of ten vessels before Malacca.
The sea-face of Tomare is a high line of cliffs, from which projects a sand-spit, leaving only a narrow entrance.
This is a level expanse of land named Point Henry, from which a long spit extends, leaving only a shoal channel between it and the northern shore.
If you bait with half a worm, prefer the tail end, and enter the point of the hook into the top part, and bring it down nearly to the end of the tail, leaving only a very small piece of it loose.
The block-house seemed to take up the space between the foot of the hill and the river, leaving only a cart-way on each side.
Rumor reached General Gates that the whole British army had moved toward Fort Edward, leaving only a small detachment, as a rearguard, in defense of the camp.
On the 2d of March I received orders dated March 1st to move my command back to Fort Henry, leaving only a small garrison at Donelson.
Then, because of unimpeded drainage, the little streams fill up rapidly with torrents of water, which quickly flows off or sinks into the sand, leaving only an occasional pool without visible inlet or outlet.
Then I see all shadowed paths leading out to Light; See the false things fade away, leaving but the True; See the wrong things slay themselves, leaving only Right; When this little mortal mind gets the larger view.
Lord of all the Universe, when I think of YOU, Then this little mortal mind gets the larger view; Then I see all shadowed paths leading into Light, Where the wrong things slay themselves, leaving only Right.
It was as if the soul that looked out of his eyes had suddenly vanished, leaving only a body that stiffened in a posture of embrace.
She laid it in the cradle, set the pillow aright, and pulled up the coverlet, leaving only a little face showing above.
Again he felt that curious sense of lightness--as if all that weighed and burdened had melted away, leaving only a thin, slight shell, that would hardly keep to earth at all.
Upon the other end of the chain there is a counterpoise, which takes off the greater part of the weight of the gas-holder, leaving only so much as is requisite for the expulsion of the gas.
By boiling with water, it is very readily convertible into a glue, which passes clear and colourless through the filter, leaving only a small portion of fibrous matter insoluble by further boiling.
The dash are small water-wheels, the inside of which is divided into four compartments, and closed up, leaving only a hole in each compartment for putting in the cloth.
These rings are partly cut away, leaving only such a segment of each as will just retain the block, and the metal between them is taken out to admit the cutter to operate between them, or nearly so.
Wasserburg lies in a basin, formed by the change of the current, which flows around it like a horseshoe, leaving only a narrow neck of land which connects it with the country above.
A mole runs nearly across the mouth of the harbor, with a tall light-house at its extremity, leaving only a narrow passage for vessels.
He arrested and imprisoned the guilty magistrates and created a new tribunal out of his own clientele, leaving only Villa, a former magistrate, in office.
The royal share was placed in the treasury and was administered by the oficiales reales, leaving only seven-ninths of the money actually obtained to be expended for the support of the church.
Leaving only three or four men under Lepoko to watch the position there, Jack was able to bring almost the whole of his force to bear on repelling the main attack.
They halt, amazed; Van Vorst shouts an order; the men wheel round and dash northwards, leaving only a few to watch the rear.
The bark seemed to close up as soon as the axe-head was withdrawn, leaving only as a narrow slit what had been a gaping rent.
The pulse was calm, and the fever had subsided, leaving only a weakness that was by no means alarming.
We now had the river to our left, and the chain of rocks to our right, which here approached the river, leaving only a narrow pass.
I commenced by plastering up the entrance to their present dwelling with clay, leaving only room to admit the bowl of my pipe.
He therefore resolved to take the whole force, leaving only sufficient to garrison the fort.
Manak Chand was so alarmed at the fighting powers shown by the English in these two affairs, that, leaving only a garrison of five hundred men at Calcutta, he retired with his army to join the nabob at Moorshedabad.
Upon seeing their approach, the whole of the irregular horse fled at once, leaving only Charlie's troop remaining.
She sent him off at once to the ships with orders to bring both crews back armed, leaving only a few in charge.
The fleet, he supposed, would meet him at Nauplia, and without delay he decided to push on with his whole army there, leaving only a small garrison in Corinth.
On the death of the hermit, John spent five years in visiting the different monasteries of Egypt, and then he chose a cave in the face of a rock, near his native place, and walled up the entrance, leaving only a door and window.
Those who desired to live this life of seclusion, entered living into these tombs, which were built up, leaving only a window open, through which they were fed and communicated.
He had found a small hut, and now he walled up the door, leaving only a window, through which bread and water could be passed in to him by a friend.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaving only" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
