It was impossible to see what was going on there, but Harry had no doubt that the Northern regiments were massing themselves for the attack.
The enemy ismassing before Washington and also toward the West in the Maryland and Virginia mountains.
It required no acute mind to perceive that the Southern commander expected the main attack to be made here, and was massing his troops in force to receive it.
The eyes of Jarvis kindled when he saw the first line of dark green slopes massing themselves against the eastern horizon.
And all the while the bourgeois guards were massing themselves before the Hotel de Ville, and Cluseret and his unarmed manifestants were yielding place to them.
He is conscious of being an agent of a world-wide movement that is massing into an irresistible human force millions upon millions of the disinherited.
But next morning Cadorna received word from his aeroplane scouts and his spies that the enemy was massing for a supreme effort.
To prevent the Germans from taking troops from various points and massing them against the main British attack, the British soldiers all along that part of the front found plenty of work to do in their immediate vicinity.
This was all the more necessary as it became apparent that the Turks were massing for a great attack shortly after nine o'clock.
It was known to the Allies through their aerial observers that the German armies, reenforced by new divisions that had been brought from Russia, were massing for another powerful attack.
What encouraged the Allies' High Command to believe that Amiens was the objective was the massing of great numbers of German troops in this area and in the district around Albert.
North of the Ypres-Roulers railway large bodies of Germans massing for a fresh attack were scattered by the well-directed fire of British guns and were unable to deliver the assault.
So to press him in his present position as to prevent his heavier massing in Virginia.
When the firing had in a great measure ceased, we were so close to the enemy that we could distinctly hear him massing his heavy bodies in our immediate front.
The change from an agricultural England to an industrial England and the massing of population in large towns, calls for unification of authority in our great industrial centres for effectual dealing with problems of poverty.
Beyond them the troops are massingin close column behind some low bluffs, and, looking back, I see the Fifth coming rapidly through the stream to join them.
But Lee, who had closely watched the elaborate massing of the Union forces for this attempt, was fully prepared for it and the first assault against his line was repulsed with fearful slaughter.
But for short marches, over open ground, there was much to be gained by massing men more closely together.
McCullough who then were massing their forces to march on Springfield, Missouri, to attack the federal forces who were then stationed at Springfield under the command of Gen.
McBride, who had been elected judge of the 18th Judicial circuit, which included Howell county, whose home was in Texas county, was made Brigadier General of the Confederate forces and commenced organizing and massing his troops.
While Lyon was massing his troops and preparing to march to Springfield the most intense excitement prevailed in the entire State of Missouri.
About two o'clock in the afternoon the enemy showed signs of movement, by massing large numbers of his troops on our right at the extremity of an open field a mile and a half from the Murfreesboro pike.
On the withdrawal of Post's brigade, Carlin's right was left exposed to the enemy, who with renewed vigor pressed forward in overwhelming numbers on converging lines, massing as they advanced.
McCook, early on the morning of the 19th, had taken position with his corps at Crawfish Spring, and was now beyond the extreme left of the rebel army, massing his troops at this point and waiting for orders.
Sheridan was there massingthe new troops for the attack, and soon the trumpets sounded the charge along the whole front.
The rest of the day was spent in massing the troops across the valley, the Winchester regiment being sent further west until it was against the base of the Massanuttons.
Dick saw other cavalry massing on either side of the Winchester regiment, and he knew their charge was to be one of great weight and importance.
Newcastle by May 18, averring that he had sure information that Robert was massing his troops on the Border with the intention of invading England if his own terms of peace were not conceded.
Nothing could be more impressive than the massing of light on the empty marble staircase, the grand figure of the executioner, the statuesque immobility of the nobles assembled at the head of the staircase.
In November the Emperor despatched his brother-in-law to command the French corps which weremassing round Warsaw.
Kutusoff saw the peril of massing so great a force there and weakening the centre, but sadly held his peace.
Dörnberg of the King's German Legion, had warned him of the enemy's massing near the Sambre early on the 15th.
And among the feet of these courtiers of higher degree crowd millions upon millions of flowering shrubs, massing often in solid phalanxes, disputing passage with the deer.
The extraordinary massing of fossil remains at this point suggests that floods may have swept these animals from a large area and lodged their bodies here, where they were covered with sands.
On the south appears the majestic massing of needle-pointed towers which Powell named the Pinnacles of the Virgin.
But the defenders have a way of massing upon each point thus attacked, and that with a celerity which is truly marvellous, and the result is the same.
These skeletons persist after the death of the animals, and because of their abundance and close massing form great reefs or banks and islands.
She and her followers fly away together, finally alighting on some tree-branch and massing there in a dense swarm.
The massing of a multitude of guns, used for the first time during the recent war, produced another form of temporary obstacle, but troops could be trained to, and actually did, advance through the barrage.
German troops massing must have received huge casualties owing to our preparation and the failure of their gas attack.
Do you remember about the snow flakes massing to the avalanche?
What was it about snow flakes massing to a momentum that bevelled the granite and rolled away the rocks for the resurrection to a new life?
Constant and insistent were the reports that the enemy was massingits forces to destroy the Indian Expedition.
Subsequently, when the Indian Expedition was massing at Baxter Springs, more vigorous measures than any yet taken were prepared for and all with the view of delaying or defeating it.
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