To a girl differently reared, perhaps, subterfuge, or some manoeuvring justified by the situation, might have been resorted to.
From China to Japan, from Japan to Corea, and away in Siberian waters, it was all the same; the Russians were perfectly successful in out manoeuvring their enemy.
This was the alternative to which he had been manoeuvring to bring her; therefore he entered her salon the next day with the air of a victor.
For nearly an hour she had been manoeuvring for a position, and at last an opportunity offered.
The Prime Minister gave no indication of the steps proposed, and he thought the Government was manoeuvring for position.
Caillaux had facilitated speculative manoeuvring on the Bourse.
Matt had been in the air more than fifteen minutes, and he was just manoeuvring toward the starting and stopping point, when the cheers were suddenly turned to cries of fear and alarm.
His last idea was to hitch a trapeze to the bottom of the aëroplane, and have Haidee, Ben Ali's pretty niece, perform on the flying bar while Matt was manoeuvring the Comet over the show grounds.
It will take us a little longer, but it will be simpler than backing and manoeuvring here now.
They are timid little manoeuvring people, afraid of property, afraid of newspapers, afraid of trade-unions.
There was considerable manoeuvring by the two armies, Howe trying to flank Washington, who was too alert to be entrapped, and no material advantage was gained by either side.
But Sherman displayed masterly generalship by so manoeuvring as to draw Hood away from the defenses and by thrusting his army between the corps of Hardee and Atlanta.
According to chivalric usage, it became his duty to present his lord's shield to his Majesty; but in manoeuvring his horse on the occasion, it fell and broke his leg.
A great battle now appeared inevitable; but Francis, manoeuvring as for a fight, contrived to throw provisions into the town and withdrew.
In these, and in similar cases, the cavalrymen should habitually dismount, in order to render their fire effective; acting and manoeuvring as skirmishers.
It may be observed, that advancing or manoeuvring in squares is practicable only on open and level plains, like the sandy deserts of Egypt and Syria.
Each pair of vessels had to be more or less alike in size, draught, speed andmanoeuvring ability to enable them to work efficiently in dual harness.
Careful manoeuvring placed the warship alongside the boat-load of half-frozen castaways and the work of rescue commenced.
One hope now remained--that by skilful manoeuvring the trawlers could be kept afloat until help arrived; but in those wastes of sea no vessel might pass for many hours, and even then not a warship.
There was little hard fighting, but more scientific manoeuvring than is generally displayed in a campaign.
From this instant, when the lines, respectively commanded in person by Lee and by Stuart, closed in with the enemy, there was little manoeuvring of any description.
Both had aimed, in manoeuvring their forces, to select ground suitable for receiving instead of making an attack, and now a blind chance seemed about to bring on a battle upon ground unknown to both commanders.
The conflict which followed was one of those bloody grapples, rather than battles, which, discarding all manoeuvringor brain-work in the commanders, depend for the result upon the brute strength of the forces engaged.
It is proper to state this distinctly, as some writers have attributed to him in the campaign, as his real object, the design of manoeuvring his adversary out of Culpepper, and pushing him back to the Federal frontier.
I have known him to preserve his serenity even when caught in a steel trap, and look the very picture of injured innocence, manoeuvring carefully and deliberately to extricate his foot from the grasp of the naughty jaws.
After manoeuvring for a time the two vessels got foul, and Jones with his own hands made fast the jib-stay of the "Serapis" to his mizzen-mast.
For two hours both were now manoeuvring for an advantage as deftly as two skilful fencers, but the two captains were equally good at this, and neither could score a point against his adversary.
And, manoeuvring round the room with added pomp, he shook hands with each separately.
She pressed it absently between finger and thumb, and beganmanoeuvring round another way.
The first was with the Protector manoeuvring in rough weather in Long Island Sound off Bridgeport in 1903.
Some of our directors were in a large towboat at anchor and we were manoeuvring in their vicinity, running back and forth, submerging, etc.
After manoeuvring around the fleet at anchor we took a run out in the channel.
Sufficient static stability is a guarantee that during all the manoeuvring evolutions of a submarine she will always remain right side up and not dive into the bottom unless the hull is punctured or flooded at one end or the other.
The faculty possessed by the boat of manoeuvringon the bottom and sending out divers leaves little or nothing to be desired in its facilities for doing this work.
In all this manoeuvring and fighting the commanding general had shown some capacity, but very much less than was indispensable in a commander who had to meet the generals of the South.
On May 1 manoeuvring for position and some fighting took place.
Neither had they gained even any ground, for the armies were still manoeuvring along the same roads over which they had been tramping and swaying to and fro for more than two years.
Accordingly wire hawsers were lowered from the two bow-hawser pipes, and by dint of careful manoeuvring the shackles were engaged.
The "Golden Hind" was manoeuvring high above La Mancha, the undulating well-watered plain between the Montes del Toledo and the Sierra Morena.
The individual thus involved knew me well, and it required no little manoeuvring to get over the route as often as was necessary, without being observed by him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manoeuvring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
