The moral aristocracy was mowed down in the name of uniformity; the social aristocracy is mowed down in the name of equality.
His features were small and delicate, and set in the frame of a reddish beard, the razor having mowed away a clearing about the sensitive mouth, which was not seldom wreathed with a childlike and charming smile.
Guimo meadows are those that for their fruitfulness may be mowed twice a year.
Not that those who had mowed and jeered repented them of their mockery, or considered themselves in the slightest degree the cause of his expatriation.
Here is fine loamy soil, producing excellent clover, which is mowed twice a year.
The Germans had rallied, filled farms with machine-guns, and mowed down the gallant 23rd and 25th Brigades men who had so dearly won such splendidly advanced positions.
No trenches existed in that area into which to put them, and English and German, captors and prisoners alike, were mowed down by Hun shrapnel as they crossed the fields towards Potijze.
The German official report said that the Huns fairly mowed down British troops when they advanced near St. Julien, and their artillery caught our men as they were retiring and inflicted frightful losses.
From front, from right and left, artillery crashed and swept the field, musketry and grape hewed and mangled and mowed down the line of blue as it moved on its approach.
It was they, the rank and file, who stood in the front, closed the gaps, and were mowed down in swaths like grass by cannon and musket-balls.
In this charge the Irish soldiers moved steadily up the ridge until within a few yards of a sunken road, from which unexpected fire mowed them down.
The men in the Federal lines leaped from their hiding places and ran to the parapets in the face of a murderous fire from the defenders of the city, only to be mowed down by hundreds.
The missiles cut branches from the trees, and saplings were mowed down as grass in a meadow is cut by a scythe.
Column after column of Southern soldiers rushed up to the death-dealing cannon, only to be mowed down.
Calling for Schofield to send several batteries, he placed them and poured a concentrated artillery fire through the gap and mowed down the advancing men in swaths.
Those who turned to fly were mowed down before they could go a dozen yards.
Our machine-guns and artillery mowed down the attackers in hundreds, but still the advancing wall swept on.
Do you believe that the crippled veteran, North or South, now passionately loves the adversary who robbed him of his glorious youth, made him a feeble ruin, and mowed down his comrades with swift death?
Volley after volley of musketry mowed them down, and the puny reaper in the neglected grain gave place to the grim reaper Death, all down that unwavering line of gray and brown.
Shut up in Naples under the Prince of Orange, governor of that city, it was attacked andmowed down by a pestilence which was at once the consequence and punishment of its insane license.
A perfect blaze of close range musketry, too, mowed them down like grass.
Sherman's army, I was sorry to learn from this soldier, was being simply "mowed out of existence.
All this was known to Lee but this unexpected meeting at a moment when privates were being mowed down like grass was a terrible shock and strain.
Our men simplymowed them down with rifles and machine guns.
As they emerged our boys met them with a raking rifle fire, which mowed them down.
We were gettingmowed down, but we had to shift them, as the officer said they were there long enough.
As soon as one lot gets mowed down the gaps are filled up with fresh men.
Joe to Bill You know, Bill, it looked hard to see my old chums mowed down like sheep.
Grassland that has been closely grazed, mowed or burned does not provide entirely adequate food or shelter, and under such conditions clumps of brush or other dense vegetation may be of critical importance.
Mowed area in foreground is southwest corner of Rockefeller Experimental Tract, a privately owned farm at the time this photograph was taken in the summer of 1951.
When they formed into squares to resist the hostile cavalry, they were mowed down by artillery; and, when they deployed into line, the cavalry was upon them.
Soon afterwards when one of the maids was mowing in the garden, and saw Thumbling jumping about and creeping up and down the plants, shemowed him up quickly with the grass, tied all in a great cloth, and secretly threw it to the cows.
So the man set to work and mowed it down so quietly and quickly that the people opened their mouths with astonishment.
Under the hail of lead they were mowed down, and ere the remainder could recover from their astonishment a second weapon was brought into play, riddling their ranks with showers of death-dealing missiles.
The guns on either side followed mine in chorus, and almost momentarily we were pouring out such a hail of bullets, that amid the smoke and fire the great body of horses and troops were mowed down like grass before the scythe.
One immense engine in particular, which belonged to the Fifteenth, mowed down the Flavian line with huge stones.
Four hundred men of the 27th were mowed down in square without drawing a trigger (their medals in fine condition have fetched as many pounds as the number of the regiment represents).
With our weak detachments of the Seventy-fourth and Ninety-first regiments we reached the crest and came under a terrible artillery fire that mowed us down.
But, driven on by ruthless commanders, they continued to advance in masses, though moweddown by the British at every successive step.
Whole rows are mowed down, vast spaces appearing between the ranks.
So many valiant French mowed in their prime, Whom mothers and sweet wives will never see Again, nor those of France who in the Pass Await them!
The thick grass had been mowed and cared for until it resembled a soft velvet carpet.
Leicester can help with the out-of-door work; the grass ought to be mowed and the paths kept in order.
The Germans were forced into the open country beyond the woods, and as they emerged the Russian guns caught them and mowed them down in thousands.
At a hundred metres (109 yards) we opened a destructive fire which mowed down hundreds, but in spite of that the others advanced, springing forward like cats and surmounting obstacles with unexampled agility.
Mowed down in heaps, the assailants recoiled; and then, without a moment's hesitation, turned and fled.
Find Colonel Clive, and tell him that we are being moweddown by our own artillery.
Although mowed down in scores, the seasoned warriors of the Mahratta chief, cheered on by his voice as, recklessly exposing himself, he rode among them, pressed forward.
