Emerging from the woods on the slope opposite to us, solid bodies of infantry, marching by columns of battalion, came steadily toward us, their bayonets scintillating in the sunlight as if aflame.
Strahan wrote that his regiment was marching northward, and that he soon expected to take part in the chief battle of the war.
Soon after his arrival Merwyn found himself marching with a force of policemen two hundred and fifty strong, led by Carpenter and followed by a company of the military.
If you are patriots, resolved and deserving to be free, prove it by universal rallying, arming, and marching to meet the foe.
The men of the Quaker City were turning out en masse, either to carry the musket or for labor on fortifications, and it was announced that twelve regiments of the New-York militia were under marching orders.
But I would never hear of his going to the front, fighting, and marching in Virginia mud and swamps.
It is small indeed," laughed Blauvelt, flushing with pleasure, "for I came away in very lightmarching order.
It was hard to realize that those men were marching towards us in the bright sunlight with deadly intent.
A graphic account of the battle followed, closing with the fact that he had left the "coward" marching up Broadway to engage in another fight.
After a mile of marching under these conditions, the foremost troops came to a place where the San Juan River crossed the road.
In 1380 he had collected his forces and was marching on Moscow when Dmitri, with the aid of all the neighbouring princes, got together an immense army and determined to give battle.
I rewarded him, and going out, without a thought whither I was going, walked along the street, plunged in reflection; until marching on blindly I came against a man.
At the same time the crowd present at a similar meeting in a hall a few blocks away started marching up Chausseestrasse to join the Germania Hall demonstrants.
The streets filled with marching crowds, civilians and soldiers, arm in arm, cheering and singing.
A motion to adjourn and march to the Chancellor's Palace to protest against the supposed arrest was carried and the crowd started marchingdown Chausseestrasse, singing the laborers' Marseillaise.
While they did it they would picture to themselves that vast army of pilgrims marching through the cloven waters, bearing the hallowed ark of the covenant and shouting hosannahs, and singing songs of thanksgiving and praise.
It stirs within a man every memory of the Holy Wars that has been sleeping in his brain for years, and peoples his thoughts with mail-clad images, with marching armies, with battles and with sieges.
Every morning before breakfast two hundred men at Chautauqua were marching and counter-marching, and learning the manual of arms with wooden guns, with President Bestor and most of the officials of the Institution in the lines.
We formed a goodly procession of three hundred, marching down the avenue, myself at the head.
There is the great silk banner of the Chautauqua Circle leading the procession on Recognition Day, followed by the classes from 1882 until the present, each classmarching behind its banner.
And on the morow being thursdaie, and the eleuenth of Aprill, king Edward quietlie made his entrie into the citie with his power, hauing fiue hundred smokie gunners marching foremost, being strangers, of such as he had brought ouer with him.
A report, or it would be better to say a rumor, had come to the British headquarters in German East Africa that the enemy had landed in force on the west coast and was marching across the dark continent to reinforce their colonial troops.
Later she had been warned from this road by word that a strong British patrol had come down the west bank of the Pangani, effected a crossing south of her, and was even thenmarching on the railway at Tonda.
But they still kept on, ever toward the west, crossing hideous gorges and marching across the face of a burning land beneath the pitiless sun.
He wasmarching up, all bravely, till he saw my face.
The only certain information I possessed was that Sir John and St. Leger had sailed from Buck Island to Oswego, and from there were marching somewhere.
But M'Kean and his rangers must now be marchingwith Herkimer's five regiments to meet the hordes of St. Leger.
Tim Murphy and his comrade, Elerson, also came up, calling out to the Johnstown men that they had come from Schoharie, and that both militia and Continentals were marching to the Valley.
Well, we got away from Stoner's, marching in double file, and only the little creatures of the forest to hear our drums and fifes.
From her I learned that Colonel Fisher, at Caughnawaga, had received a letter from Colonel Jacob Klock six days ago, which stated that Sir John Johnson was marching on the Valley.
We're clean kicked out o' Canada, andmarching up Lake Champlain, our rear in touch with the red-coats.
They, in their turn, knew nothing positive of Sir John, but had heard that he was marching on Stanwix with St. Leger and Brant, and that a thousand savages were with them.
There ensued a silence through which, very far away, we heard the music of another regiment marching into the town, which lay below us under the calm, high stars.
It is certain that he is not marching merely to Alexander's assistance, but against the Imperial supremacy.
The English king, Henry, is marching forward with a mighty army.
The celebrated Henry, Earl of Worcester, once observing the enemy leaving the field, turned round and said, I love to see my own danger, especially when it is marching off.
A complying State at war with a non-complying State; Congress marchingthe troops of one State into the bosom of another; this State collecting auxiliaries and forming, perhaps, a majority against its federal head.
I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on.
This is my return for putting him, at twelve years old, into a marching regiment, and allowing him fifty pounds a year, besides his pay, ever since!
He has told you how, in the pomp and circumstance of war, they came back to you, marching with proud and victorious tread, reading their glory in a nation's eyes!
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal, Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
So the spirit of the simple crusader went marching on through the war, and his name was linked forever with the cause of freedom.
He met a few small parties of Indians, but they had no provisions to spare, and his men were soon exhausted from hunger and the weariness of marching over mountains.
John Brown held thousands of muskets and rifles in the arsenal, while the men who were marchingto attack him were for the most part armed with squirrel guns and old-fashioned fowling-pieces.
Word come to the Swamp of the Swan that men who favored slavery were marching on the town, intending to drive out the free-state Northerners there.
Far away down the boulevard, on whose apex we stood, we saw a marchingretinue of men and women surrounding a platform borne on the shoulders of men.
Even as the Superintendent alluded to its use, a file of dark figures was just above us, with soldierlike precision marching down to the level we occupied.
The canal passed through solitudes, where the silence was only broken by the cackling laugh of a crane-like bird, marching in lines along the banks, or perched like sleepy sentinels amid the outstretched branches of the trees.
Finally, brethren, finally, We are marching to the sky, And all this earthly music Tunes us up for bye and bye!
It has been said that every good woman has in her marching outfit a supply of adaptability which, in sum total, accounts for most of the happiness enjoyed by the human race at large.
