The prudent Don Diego remonstrated at the rashness of attacking so great a force with a mere handful of men.
The Moors beheld, with surprise, that they were opposed by a mere handful of men, and that the greater part of the Christians were flying from the field.
I give below the orders Bonaparte dictated to Berthier at the very moment when, after having left him at the presbytery of St. Antoine, my father had repulsed Wurmser's nocturnal sally at the head of a mere handful of dragoons.
Major Anderson, who commanded the fort with its mere handful of men, was himself a man of Southern extraction, as were Farragut, George H.
The cavalry of the Lacedaemonians, looking a mere handful, were drawn up to meet them.
The Sicyonians are fortifying an outpost on our borders, they have plenty of stone-masons but a mere handful of hoplites.
Many of the Lacedaemonians objected, for the sake of a mere handful of wretched people, so to embroil themselves with a state of over five thousand men.
The time was not, indeed, distant when even here the friends of negro freedom had been deemed odious--when they were a mere handful, met in a room in the Black Bull Inn.
Thousands were brought against a mere handful of men; but Reid knew the importance of his position, and was determined at all hazards to hold it until reinforcements arrived.
The more I saw, the more I wondered at what had been achieved by such a mere handful of men against such vast numbers.
And the amazing thing about it all is that in the midst of seething thousands of American and Canadian Indians on the wide and lonely frontier, we had a mere handful of these gallant red-coated guardians of the peace.
We can now say without boasting that the heroic conduct of a mere handful of Britons were, and are to this day, the admiration of all.
There were persons who thought that the packet boats might well be employed to do something more than carry to and fro a mere handful of letters.
There they were, a mere handful, surrounded by hundreds of hostile Indians in war dress, ready to swoop down upon them at any time, without the least chance of assistance from outside sources.
It was galling to their pride to think that a mere handful of pale-faces were able to withstand their onslaughts so successfully.
He was a born leader of men, and, though at first followed by a mere handful of wild clansmen, soon made his power felt in the war.
The allied chiefs never succeeded in joining each other: Bajee Rao was defeated in front of Poona by a mere handful of British troops, and after long wanderings was forced to lay down his arms and surrender.
General Havelock commanded this brigade, a mere handful of 1200 men.
There were those who were then sitting on the verge of a volcano--a mere handful in the midst of a vast, teeming population of fierce and truculent savages.
He could not resist the temptation of making a stand against the enemy, though he had a mere handful of men about him, so he whirled his horse about and faced the foe.
He had a way of calling on his enemies very scantily attended, and this time he took with him a mere handful of men.
Only a mere handful of the force was able to turn back and escape along the path by which they had come, and these were speedily overtaken by the active mountaineers and made prisoners.
Speckbacher, too, was deserted by all save a mere handful of men, and after remaining in hiding for some time and escaping capture by a miracle he succeeded in getting to Vienna.
About the same time another smaller engagement took place near Bozen, where a mere handful of peasants engaged a much superior force and defeated it.
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