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Example sentences for "marshals"

Lexicographically close words:
marshal; marshaled; marshaling; marshalled; marshalling; marshalship; marshes; marshland; marshlands; marshmallow
  1. The generals, officers of the day, and provost-marshals of that army testify that it is a day of hard work and wearing responsibility.

  2. In 1880 the use of the marshals was done away with and a corps of census supervisors provided.

  3. By an act of the same year deputy collectors of internal revenue and deputy marshals were withdrawn from the operation of the laws.

  4. The first census, that of 1790, was taken under the direction of the United States marshals in their respective districts; the statistics collected related only to population, and the schedule embraced only six questions.

  5. Others which were found up in their chambers & would not answer were violently brought downe with bills and staves as malefactors and by the Knight Marshals appointment were committed close prisoners to the Prince's castle, videl.

  6. Le de Spencer twice attempted to speak, but the marshals would not allow him.

  7. As he spoke he rose from his chair, and bowing his head to the herald, the Scottish marshals conducted the embassadors from his presence.

  8. As he concluded he turned from Lord Carrick; and the marshals immediately seizing the earl, took him to the keep of the castle.

  9. Esterhazy went on to describe how the Duke abandoned everything at a ball when he met there Marshals Marmont and Maison.

  10. Among the Marshals who gave an active support to Napoleon Ney takes the leading part in most eyes; if it were only for his fate, which is too well known for much to be said here concerning it.

  11. Aja provides for the safety of Indumati, marshals his attendants, and greatly distinguishes himself in the battle which follows.

  12. Nevertheless, he prepares for battle, marshals his army, and sets forth to meet the gods.

  13. Kumara prepares for battle, and marshals his army.

  14. Simon wished he could turn his eyes away, but he did not want Charles and his marshals to think him squeamish.

  15. I think he would have been happy to stay in Rome if his supporters, such as his marshals and yourself, had not pressed him to move southward when you heard Manfred was on the march.

  16. He rode a few yards behind Count Charles d'Anjou and the three knights Charles had appointed marshals of his army.

  17. The manner of the three marshals toward Count Charles shocked Simon.

  18. As the army of Anjou, with Charles and Simon and the three marshals in the lead, advanced slowly, Simon noticed that six or so men, several hundred paces in front of the shouting citizens, were walking to meet them.

  19. Worse, as marshals of an army commanded by King Louis's brother, they dishonored France.

  20. On account of his not having more than an eighth part of the forces which the King of France had, his marshals fixed upon the most advantageous situation, and the army went and took possession of it.

  21. Edward sent out his marshals with their battalions to find a passage, but they were unsuccessful, until a peasant led them to the tidal ford of Blanchetaque.

  22. When the front perceived the rear pressing on they pushed forward, and neither the King nor the marshals could stop them, but they marched without any order until they came in sight of their enemies.

  23. It was customary for the marshals and generals of division to present themselves each evening at Schoenbrunn, from six to nine o'clock, and we found that eight or ten carriages were already in waiting when we arrived.

  24. I was visited by the first men of the army; marshals and generals figured among the names of my intimates, and invitations flowed in upon me from all that were distinguished by rank and station.

  25. In the year 1344 he was dispatched into Gascony with the Earl of Derby and Lancaster, the Earl of Pembroke, and other noble peers of England, as one of the marshals of the host.

  26. It appears that at a ball given by the Austrian Ambassador in Paris, the distinguished French marshals who attended were deliberately shorn of their legitimate titles.

  27. The Opposition welcomed him as one of themselves, for in celebrating the marshals had not the poet celebrated the Empire?

  28. The marshals had been invited in order to show contempt for their victories, and the Empire was insulted in their persons.

  29. The Marshals had been brought over one by one, and peace was at length settled upon the terms which the Allies dictated.

  30. For even the gold-laced Judases who had sold him to the English, the marshals and princes, had loved him at some time or other.

  31. There's a pomaded curled staff officer, the darling of some of the marshals who sold their father for a handful of English gold.

  32. The Chief of Police of St. Louis, the marshals and constables, and county sheriffs were aroused to unusual activity.

  33. Marshals Canrobert and Bosquet followed the infant, and their majesties next appeared under a moving canopy.

  34. Louis XVIII, this miserable and insignificant man of legitimate royal blood who had never rendered any service to France, wanted revenge--Ney was arrested and condemned by the Chamber of Peers after the marshals had refused to condemn him.

  35. December this division had come to Smorgoni where Napoleon took leave from his marshals and from his army, after he had entrusted Murat with the command.

  36. The prisoners had learned how the Emperor, not yet despairing, had striven to quicken the spirits of his marshals and soldiers for a last try; how the marshals and great officers had failed him.

  37. The spirit of the marshals and great officers whom he had raised from the dust to affluence and power was waning.

  38. He had dressed himself with the assistance of his faithful valet, Constant, who had given him a bath and shaved him, and he now confronted the two astonished marshals with an air serene--even cheerful.

  39. With two exceptions, the great Marshals were not there.

  40. With greatly inferior forces, through four years of desperate fighting, he had defeated the Marshals and armies of France.

  41. The two marshals bowed and left the room with downcast heads and resentful hearts.

  42. The fact that Wellington had beaten all of Napoleon's Marshals with whom he had come in contact had intensified the Emperor's hatred.

  43. There were but two of the Marshals of old with Napoleon.

  44. The spirit of the guard and of the subordinate officers, say from the colonels down, was good enough, but the generals and the marshals were sick of fighting.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marshals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.