Red Nelson, seeing that the manoeuverhad miscarried, instantly instituted another.
This manoeuver had turned French Pete's bunk from the lee to the weather side, and rolled him out on the cabin floor, where he lay in a drunken stupor.
Joe had seen themanoeuver performed the previous night, and so was able to carry it out with fair success.
Our first intimation of thismanoeuver was the bringing up of great quantities of ammunition.
They knew that the time for the manoeuver to start was near, but whether it was to be 24 or 48 hours, they did not know.
After a few drills, we mastered the manoeuver and it would have been possible for us to have emptied that boat of 1,500 soldiers in twelve minutes, if such action had been necessary.
The final manoeuver thus presented a double row of scouts linked together by their lowered staves into a formation that would be equally effective in pushing through a dense crowd or withstanding the pressure of their assaults.
The "arms" were, of course, their staves, but the manoeuver was executed with a snap and precision which many a company of militia might have envied.
It was an enforced manoeuver with which the past weeks had made her wearily familiar.
It was another instance of how betrayed she constantly was, in any manoeuver in the actual world, by the fatuous idealism which had so colored her youth--she vented her emotion in despising that idealism and thinking of hard names to call it.
If she had under this pseudo-philosophical question a veiled purpose analogous to that of the less subtle charmer whose avowed expedient is to get "a man to talk about himself" the manoeuver was eminently successful.
The boys then, by a peculiar manoeuver which they had learned by much practice, brought back their oars into the row-locks, and raised the blades out of the water, so as to get them into a position for rowing.
He ordered them to back water first, by which manoeuver the boat was backed off from the land into deep water.
George saw him gracefully manoeuver his way round the crush toward the stairs leading to the bar.
We intend to leave in squadron formation and manoeuver for an hour, and afterwards each is to make for the station on his own hook.
The object now was to so manoeuver their ship as to keep between the two enemies, and in doing so make it difficult for either of them to use the quick firers without danger of hitting the other.
Then the other Caudron started to manoeuver the same way, only more poorly than the Nieuport.
You mustmanoeuver to reach the inside of that cloak before I do.
This manoeuver to assist her did not pass, for she was up and out almost as soon as he.
Again heredity came to his aid, for he tried a manoeuver known only to wolves and to collies.
That is a collie manoeuver inherited direct from Wolf's namesake ancestors.
They might have been in a manoeuver and their goal a deserted ditch.
By noon Napoleon had effected a junction with this marshal near Etoges, making a famous and successful flank march over a marshy country, a manoeuver which is justly considered worthy of his great genius.
It was probably during the Emperor's nap that Soult forwarded to Grouchy a despatch, marked ten in the morning, instructing that general to manoeuver toward the main army by way of Wavre.
Wellington, with his western lines protected, would be safe when the Prussian army should appear where he knew its van already was, and he must manoeuver eastward to keep in touch.
Such a sudden manoeuversurprised us, and we got upon the quarter-deck as soon as our legs could carry us.
Jones being on shore when this singular manoeuver took place, and not hearing any thing of it till the Alliance was safe at anchor, as I just observed.
By this manoeuver they penetrated to the front, where, their band disintegrating, Genevieve and Nicole succeeded in reaching a position at a grill in the wall.
Dossonville, who had lent a moment's amused attention to this farcical recital, rose and returned to the march, a manoeuver which caused Sans-Chagrin and Le Corbeau to choke in their haste to empty the decanter.
This manoeuver so obstructed the view that Miss Ellis rose and came a few paces nearer, hoping for a better sight of those exciting animals.
It came over him that this wasn't the first time that she had executed this simple manoeuver, if manoeuver it was.
O'Brien, scorning the "epidemic," had bound up the scratch and now commenced to manoeuver the three planes in toward the cliffs.
Lawrence tried the manoeuver until he was afraid to repeat it, and like a star shell exploding in his brain came the thought, "That is not O'Brien's car!
When he appeared again above the surface of the water, it was evident that he had milled while down, by which manoeuver he gained on us nearly a mile.
Yet one moment more,' I said to the colonel, for I have need of all my coolness to carry into execution the fearful manoeuver which I am about to commence.
No one could be stupid enough to reason that such manoeuver would discomfit the gunners, and yet in this case the effect was more efficacious than any manoeuver yet invented.
He Immelmanned, only to discover that by some brilliantly rapid manoeuver the German had rolled into position and was rattling bullets into the Camel's motor.
He tried to draw me to one side, but the little manoeuver was not successful.
The war ofmanoeuver had given way to trench warfare, which lasted through long, tedious months nearly to the end of the great conflict.
Professional students find in this campaign almost the first complete realization of the hazardous and delicate manoeuver known as turning the enemy--common sense shows that the turner, if careless or slow, is himself liable to be turned.
Soult especially was carefully instructed as to the "manoeuver of the day"--an advance in echelon, right shoulder forward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manoeuver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
