Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland.
The army listened, recovered hope and spirit, swore to all he asked, and one of the most wonderful marches in the world began.
He took them by long marches to a great distance from home, and then left them at night with a few trusty friends, with whom he fell upon the Ephors at supper, and killed four of them, the only blood he shed in this matter.
A report arrived that the rebel Prince Sawanai and the dacoit leader, Kan Hlaing, were strongly stockaded at Manton, three marches farther on, and that he had a following of 2,000 men.
The two marches had occupied six hours and nine hours respectively, and two hours only had {78} been spent in the triple business of negotiation, refreshment, and repose.
Several letters are addressed to the Council of the Marches of Wales ordering them to prevent the eviction of copyholders.
Peeping through the meshes of the hammock, he saw the Marches coming out, as if bound on some expedition.
Every one liked Laurie, and he privately informed his tutor that "the Marches were regularly splendid girls.
So Laurie did his best, and sung delightfully, being in a particularly lively humor, for to the Marches he seldom showed the moody side of his character.
It was repeated, though in a milder degree, in all our subsequent marches under him.
The details of his marches we knew only by report.
It afforded a delightful contrast to the monotonous woods, interrupted only by sparse plantations, which, on our previous marches in the South, had bounded to narrow distances the inquiring vision, and rose round us like a prison wall.
On the march or transport, and after hard marches or long movements, when we needed a sutler most, we were sure to be without one.
It was a winter uniform, heavier than is ever furnished by the Government, and totally unfit to wear on the long marcheswe were destined to make during the hottest days of the summer.
When the marches again commenced the arrangement was dispensed with.
Indeed, in our subsequent marches in Missouri, we saw few places where this was not the case.
A few New Year's greetings were exchanged, and many fond thoughts went back to the happy firesides we had exchanged for the cheerless camp fires, the days of hunger and fatigue, the weary marches and watches, and the fearful chances of war.
Much depended upon food supply, climatic conditions, and the prevalence of animals of the more dangerous species; though Kerchak often led them on long marches for no other reason than that he had tired of remaining in the same place.
Hannibal Marches toward Rome Hannibal tried a further expedient, the last which occurred to his inventive genius, to save the important city.
In the midst of these marches and counter-marches and these incessant battles, there had been no opportunity to distribute regular rations among the troops.
You have gained battles without cannon; passed rivers without bridges; made forced marches without shoes, bivouacked without bread.
We have forced marches to make, enemies to subdue, laurels to gather, injuries to revenge.
In the rocks of the worldMarches the host of mankind, A feeble, wavering line.
We have no actual reign of reason and of law; and he marchesto success who marches with natural laws and along the definite trend of existing circumstances and conditions.
The hames now in use are certainly better than they were at the commencement of the Crimean war; but those which we used during our long forced marches in India during the mutiny were very far from being perfect.
We were constantly in the habit, when engaged in making forced marches through Central India, of making use of the stalks of the recently cut juhari for this purpose.
Corporal Lundy writes:-- 'Through all the trying marches and battles in which I have been engaged I have found time to read a portion of God's Word.
General French, at the head of his cavalry division, was making one of the most famous marches in history.
He has undergone some of the severest marches in history.
In his marches he took no tent or baggage, but slept in the open air, lived on horse-flesh broiled by himself upon the coals, and showed all the endurance of a Cossack warrior born in the snows.
The forced marches which Napoleon made in the hope of overtaking the Russians forced him to abandon much of his supplies, while men and horses sank from fatigue and hunger.
Some of them were scarecrows, especially poor Jehu, who was never expected to start at all, and ended by gallantly pulling his somewhat diminished load eight marches beyond One Ton Camp, a distance of 238 miles.
At our Southern Barrier Depôt we reckoned we were some forty-four miles from this Gateway and in three more marches we hoped to be camped under this land.
Certainly as we skirted these mountains, range upon range, during the next two marches (November 30 and December 1), we felt we could have little cause for complaint.
In the next three marches we covered our daily 13 miles, for the most part without very great difficulty.
I expected these marchesto be a little difficult, but not near so bad as to-day.
This team which had gone so strong up the glacier, which had done those amazingly good marches on the plateau, broke up unexpectedly and in some respects rapidly from the 88th parallel onwards.
That night Scott wrote: "Only a few more marches to feel safe in getting to our goal.
We started out as usual, and had the most pleasant, as well as the longest, of our return marches on the last day of summer, February 22.
By forced marches across the mountains, in which both officers and men suffered not a little, we reached the general's camp, and I had the honour of being introduced to him.
Long marchesover an almost impracticable country by day, the most intense cold by night, without tents or extra clothing, and with little food, were endured with uncomplaining devotion.
The trapper now gives up the contest of ingenuity, and shouldering his traps, marches off, admitting that he is not yet "up to beaver.
He continued his search with great anxiety, and no little fatigue; for his horses were jaded, and almost crippled, by their forced marches and scramblings through rocky defiles.
They all began talking at once, and ignoring and trying to remember the Triscoes to whom the youngMarches were presented.
To come to it from the simplicity and quiet of that noble work is like passing from some exquisite masterpiece of naturalistic acting to the rant and uproar of melodrama; and the Marches stood stunned and bewildered by its wild explosions.
They made the hushing street gay with their laughter; the next evening Miss Triscoe came upon the Marches and Burnamy where they sat after supper listening to the concert at Pupp's, and thanked Mrs. March for the scissors.
The Rathhaus is a salad-dressing of German gothic and French rococo as to its architectural style, and is charming in its way, but the Marches were in the market-place for the sake of that moment of Heine's boyhood.
He was not surprised that the Marches were going home, and said, Well, that was their original plan, wasn't it?
The landlord was there, too, and he greeted the Marches so cordially that they fully partook his grief in being able to offer them rooms on the front of the house for two nights only.
If you listen at all to speaking of this kind, your attention, rather than be suffered to flag, must grow more and more lively as the phrase marches on.
His gait is strangely majestic, and he marches along with his simple blanket as though he were wearing the purple.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
