He traveled in all the martial splendor of his full scout regalia, his duffel bag stuffed to capacity with his aluminum cooking set and two extra scout suits.
She then proceeded to embrace him while his martial paraphernalia clanked and rattled.
Of all who bend before her this day, the worship of none is so welcome as that of the martial stranger.
The highly respectable Americans who were to serve as the link between the soldiers and the ladies decidedly declined the office, objecting to the martial gentleman as being altogether too dangerous to bring into the dove-cot.
The Mexicans had the Latin ear, the gift for melody, and the air they played was martial and inspiring.
He led them down to cypress swamp, The ground was low and mucky; There stood John Bull in martial pomp, And here stood old Kentucky.
The crusades may be considered as martial pilgrimages on an enormous scale, and their influence upon general morality seems to have been altogether pernicious.
The church uttered her excommunications in vain against so wanton an exposure to peril; but it was more easy for her to excite than to restrain that martial enthusiasm.
Maximilian's strange capricious character, this martial pope sacrificed Italian and religious interests alike in order to re-establish the temporal power of the papacy.
The brigands were so daring and their depredations assumed such proportions that martial law was declared in over a hundred towns and villages.
So extreme were some of these that in December, 1853, a court martial at Havana condemned him to death.
So confident was the royal government of its security, and of the completeness with which the incipient revolution had been quelled, that on March 17 it repealed the decree of martial law at the capital.
Public and permanent in the island of Cuba, are those courts martial which the laws permit only in extraordinary cases of war, for offences against the State.
It is true that when some of these men attempted to return to the Cuban lines and persuade the other officers to join them in submission to Spanish authority, they were tried by court-martial and sentenced.
Martial law was, however, promptly proclaimed at Madrid, and thus countless sympathizers with the revolution were restrained from taking an active part in it.
There followed a summary court martialof the remainder of the company; conducted according to the ruthless Spanish fashion, and under the domination of the implacable Volunteers.
Whatever truth there may be in this part of the story, it seems indisputable that during the Second Messenian War, Tyrtæus, an Attic poet, reanimated the drooping spirits of the Spartans by the energy of his martial strains.
Later in the same year a new council was convened at Clermont, in France, Urban purposely fixing the place of meeting among the warm tempered and martial Franks.
Sertorius, an adherent of Marius, had there stirred up the martial tribes of Lusitania, and incited a general revolt against the power of the aristocratic government at Rome.
The Spartans were forbidden to engage in trade; all their time must be passed in the chase, or in gymnastic and martial exercise.
The martialvalor of its citizens was thought its only proper defence.
Gradually this martial race seized province after province of the Asiatic possessions of the Byzantine emperors.
Their efforts to spread Greek art and culture among their subjects, a race of rough but brave and martial men, unaccustomed to city life, had been so far successful that the country had, to a certain degree, become Hellenized.
The stirring Marseillaise Hymn, sung by the marching bands, awakened everywhere a martial fervor.
Their chief occupation wasmartial and gymnastic exercises and the administration of public affairs.
The feudal knights and lords, just now animated by the rising spirit of chivalry, were very ready to enlist in an undertaking so consonant with their martial feelings and their new vows of knighthood.
The Christian Church set in the midst of the seething, martial nations and races of Europe an influence that fostered the gentler virtues, and a power that was always to be found on the side of order, and usually of mercy.
The most honorable service required of the vassal, and the one most willingly rendered in a martial age, was military aid.
Martial games and festivals were celebrated in his honor during the first month of the Roman year, which bore, and still bears, in his honor, the name of March.
The successive struggles between thesemartial races are known as the First, Second, and Third Samnite wars.
Now themartial concert began, and the music was above a hemiole the quicker, according to the warlike Phrygian mode, such as was invented by Marsyas.
They began their meal as you end yours, with cheese, and ended it with mustard and lettuce, as Martial tells us the ancients did.
The land and naval forces, and the militia when in actual service, are under military law, usually called martial law.
Military government is conducted by the rules of martial law, and in its penalties and exactions is much more severe than civil government.
Martial law is the law which regulates men in military service.
After various decrees to effect the levee en masse, the Convention have discovered that this sublime and undefined project was not calculated for the present exhausted state of martial ardour.
He carried a musket in his hand, and had a martial and imposing air about him, which was quite in character with the station he maintained.
It would appear that the New Zealand women sometimes carry their martial propensities farther than they are stated to have done in the present case.
The martial spirit was there together with the quick intelligence that enables America to turn out finished soldiers more quickly than any other country in the world.
De Perche was a martial Frank, who frequently exclaimed “Mort Dieu!
With the blare of martial music and with ringing cheers, they charged at the still formidable walls.
He himself was tried by court-martial and imprisoned for fifteen years[153].
He hailed, indeed, from old Puritan stock; had been a pillar in the village church in days before the great war, and emulated Stonewall Jackson in his piety, if he did not in martial prowess.
Indian fighting was something far too scientific for his martialeducation and too much for his skeleton command.
Private enemies were daily in the most unblushing manner haled before courts-martial and consigned to Moiley.
These at least were worthy foes whose presence set his martial blood tingling.
In the transient flare the expectant mob beheld a martial figure that glittered with gold braid, waving a big sword.
What was this youth in martial garb, who waved over his head a sabre?
After all, perhaps the proceedings of courts-martial were less bad than these legal masquerades.
The court-martial which was to cut his span was held in the cavalry-barracks, the roads leading to which were thronged by anxious watchers, amongst whom professional wakers were prominent like ravens.
The boom of cannon in the distance, flags floating gaily in the bright morning air, strains of martial music filling it, a waving of caps and handkerchiefs, shouts in the streets below, and the tramp of many feet.
The court-martial assembled on Uwini this morning, and tried him on charges of armed rebellion, for ordering his people to murder whites, and for instigating rebellion in this part of the country.
The court martial gave him a long hearing, in which he practically confessed to what was charged against him, and they found him guilty, and sentenced him to be shot.
He had packed his court-martial with the few trustworthy friends he had among the officers, using the justification which jury-packers always use--and sometimes have.
He paused a moment, and then went on: "The court-martial on Mistitch is convened for Saturday.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "martial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
