Since American occupation the waters have been made practically free from their ravages, but on land they have continued to give trouble.
The occupation of Nogent brought the Germans to a favourable point on the direct railway-line between Paris and Le Mans, the capital of Maine.
He claimed to be acting as the correspondent of a Californian journal, but his chief occupation appeared to be the giving of séances for the entertainment of all the German princes and princelets staying at the Hôtel des Réservoirs.
It was a profitless but absorbing occupation and he vacantly glanced at the majestic panorama of snowy peaks and climbing forest that rolled past the windows of the car.
Then my pay was arranged on the surmise that to be engaged in such an occupation was reward enough, and something must be allowed for the natural reaction.
It was possible that he was a storekeeper, or a real estate agent, which is a common occupation in a Western town.
The German artillery had played havoc with the wires some days prior to our occupation of the trench, the stakes had been battered down and most of the defence had been smashed to smithereens.
Pryor asked; we never really knew what Bill's civiloccupation was, he seemed to know a little of many crafts, but was master of none.
When it was founded no one accurately knows, but it is believed to antedate the Roman occupation of the island.
The town of Caernarvon, notwithstanding its famous history and the possession of the greatest ruin in Wales, now derives its chief satisfaction from the lucrative but prosaic occupation of trading in slates.
The original Briscoe had been a pioneer both as to territorial occupation and in certain acts prompted by a great and simple heart.
By occupation and common consent he was the Son of his Father.
Their occupation was that of labourers, and at this particular season of the year they were employed in picking olive-berries.
Each Mussulman prostrated himself, no matter in what occupation he was engaged, and bowing his head towards Mecca, the tomb of the Prophet, performing his silent devotion.
One occupation seemed to delight her above all else, it was so simple and beautiful, besides which it enabled her to convey her feelings by means of an agency that, as far as it went, supplied to her the loss of her speech.
Still left entirely to herself, the same occupation employed her time, of tending flowers and toying with beautiful birds.
In fact, women are accorded equal privileges with a vengeance in this part of rural France--they outnumber the men in the fields and no occupation appears too heavy or degraded for them to engage in.
Men are more seldom seen at work--what their occupationis we can only surmise.
And not a few of those who fought so valiantly for their country gained their sea training and developed their hardihood and resourcefulness in the ancient and--in Devon and Cornwall--honorable occupation of smuggling.
The lady who presently joins Jim appears, by her ruffled air, to have been engaged upon no such soothing occupation as luting to a recumbent lover.
From that weeding have they not, by an easy transition, at her suggestion, passed to the more playful and ingenious occupation of amputating the heads of some of the rejected friends and applying them to the bodies of others?
While he is thus employed upon an occupation akin to, and about as cheerful as, that of Rawdon Crawley before Waterloo, Byng enters.
The occupation he loved most was fishing, especially for eels.
Let the wags laugh on; but a far pleasanter occupation is to sleep until breakfast-time, or near it.
The other honest gentleman in the fur cap, what can his occupation be?
There is, as you may fancy, a number of such groups on the deck, and a pleasant occupation it is for a lonely man to watch them and build theories upon them, and examine those two personages seated cheek by jowl.
At the sight of Gwen and her occupation she nearly dropped the books she was carrying.
They spent much of their spare time in training for various Olympic games, an occupation of which Beatrice heartily approved.
He wore a grammar-school cap, and carried some books, so she could guess his occupation in Stedburgh.
By the dramatists of the Restoration adultery was represented as a politeoccupation and virtue as a provincial oddity.
According to these writers, Phaon was a good-looking young brute engaged in the not inelegant occupation of ferryman.
French, English, Portuguese, and Belgian capitalists have seen the advantages to be derived from this occupation of a new soil, and have not been slow to seize their opportunities.
The ruins of no less than eight distinct temples exist here, some of which are as late as the Roman occupation of Egypt.
But it was not till the death of the great missionary explorer, that the land which gave him birth resolved to send a little army of occupation to the region which he had opened to the Christian world.
For several years before the occupation of Angola, the king of Congo had been doing a large and lucrative trade with the Portuguese in slaves.
At any rate, England could enlist in India an army for the occupation of East Africa.
England planted within Egypt an army of occupation and took virtual directorship of her institutions.
We boys don't like your illegal occupation up here in the mountains, but it is none of our business.
She usually finds a facileoccupation which gives her the defense and the little ready money she needs.
She may have a regular occupation or an occasional one, neither must interfere with her liberty of pleasure.
During the French occupation of Rome to bolster up the papal power, it became a barrack, and the tribunal of the Inquisition was held there until suppressed, to be revived by Pius IX after 1849 in an apartment in the Vatican.
To learn the art of “damascening” or inlaying the blades of daggers with steel or silver was yet another occupation of Cellini’s busy hours, which were indeed always full.
Until the French occupation of Rome, when doors were cut into them, they were entered through holes in the vaulted ceiling.
This is the station of the neveros, those natives, whose occupation it is to collect ice and snow, which they sell in the neighbouring towns.
His occupation was not unattended with peril, as the following incident will show.
The monotony of George Stephenson's occupation as a brakesman was somewhat varied by the change which he made, in his turn, from the day to the night shift.
If any one asked me what was the serious occupation of my life here, I should answer without hesitation, "Airing my clothes.
At the close of two decades of Spanish occupationin the Philippines, the native population is decimated, and the Spanish colonists are poor, heavily burdened with taxation, and largely non-producing.
And, finally, the immediate occupation of China will forestall any advance into the far Orient by the French, or the English, or any other heretical nation.
Franz's reference to Oosterzeele being in German occupation forbade the least hope of succour by a Belgian force.
