Now the Germans were again at the Marne, pressing nearer and nearer Paris; now rumours were coming of another Austrian offensive against the Piave line.
On Saturday the headline was "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked," and for the first time in that terrible week the Ingleside folk dared to draw a long breath.
What had happened to her that the sight of the beautiful fish was offensive and the smell of its curing intolerable?
Quite intentionally she gave to her manner a good deal of that haughtiness which young wives think dignity, but which is in reality the offensive freshness of new-made honour.
Denasia had not eaten at all; she lay on the bright blue sofa with shut eyes, and her faded beauty and faded dress were offensive to the fastidious young man.
She had no longer any need to hide the wounding look or doubtful word in a protesting attitude, as painful to her as it was offensive to others.
But if it ceases to be purely aesthetic--if it lapses anywhere from the picture to the diagram--it becomes the mostoffensive of all teaching.
My offensive formula was written under the supposition that your conclusion meant something which it apparently did not mean.
The most offensive one was a person who appeared to exercise some authority over the others.
The odour of these cakes is offensive in the extreme to a European; but a Samoan turns from a bit of English cheese with far more disgust than we do from his fermented bread-fruit.
This has induced a habit of carelessness in washing cotton and other garments, which is very offensive and difficult to eradicate.
You stared at our good Monsieur Chaubard in a very offensivemanner all through the evening.
Marian Seaton also appeared to be too fully occupied with her own affairs to undertake the launching of a new offensive against the girls she so greatly disliked.
She made a sweeping gesture as if to brush the offensive Miss Noble off the face of the earth.
Rapacious, haughty, and unfeeling, he exercised his powers in the most offensive manner.
The British army had been treated too roughly, to attempt farther offensive operations.
Obviously as this measure was calculated to favour both the offensive and defensive operations of France in America, the English minister, after an unavailing remonstrance, submitted to it.
The British general, disconcerted at this untoward event, abandoned all his plans of offensive operations.
Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven, entered into a firm and perpetual league, offensive and defensive.
The vast and complex movements heretofore proposed, were no longer contemplated, and offensive operations were to be confined to a single object.
The colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, far from contemplating offensive operations, had been unable to defend themselves; and their frontiers were exposed to all the horrors of Indian warfare.
These offensive operations stimulated the English colonists to additional efforts to expel such dangerous neighbors, and to unite the whole northern continent bordering on the Atlantic, under one common sovereign.
An active offensive campaign being meditated, general Braddock convened the governors of the several provinces, on the 14th of April, in Virginia, who resolved to carry on three expeditions.
Early in 1306 he modified or explained away those features of the bulls Clericis Laicos and Unam sanctam which were particularly offensive to the king.
Claudian's panegyric, however lavish and regardless of veracity, is in general far less offensive than usual in his age, a circumstance attributable partly to his more refined taste and partly to the genuine merit of his patron Stilicho.
The Portuguese snuff-taking is offensive enough, but this Spanish habit of smoking perpetually is intolerable.
Conway, and laugh at L'Isle so merrily, that he would have soon found it in his heart to forgive the latter all his offensive strictures on him.
This exclusion was the more offensive because one of them had married Bianca, the sister of the Medici.
The progress of society seems only to have taught one lesson; that it is better to make the conquered subservient to the profit or amusement of the conqueror, than to put him to death, like any other formidable or offensive animal.
James observed in such a tone that John thought it was the most offensive remark of the many he had heard him make that evening.
There was not as yet the least hint of attack, but John would almost have preferred an offensive action to this martyred withdrawal from the world in which it was suggested that he and Miss Hamilton were living by themselves.
We've got quite a jolly little offensive strafe on this afternoon," remarked the major.
I found him in the courtyard busy in unloading his beast, and examining the contents of the package he had thus carried behind him, which proved to be a considerable store of very miscellaneous pieces of armour, both offensive and defensive.
De Blaye, who was both really enraged and really brave, blustered a good deal at this notification, and said something rather offensive to the prince about his father the duke being afraid of losing my ransom.
The Bishop explained away the offensive phrase, but the spiritual peers succeeded in rejecting the Commons' bills.
In 1514 Carroz had complained of Henry's offensive behaviour, and had urged that it would become impossible to control him, if the "young colt" were not bridled.
The object of that visit, so far from being to facilitate an agreement, was to conclude an offensive and defensive alliance against one of the two parties between whom Wolsey was pretending to mediate.
Far more offensive was it to national prejudice, that England's king should be cited to appear before a court in a distant land, dominated by the arms of a foreign prince.
To such a marvellous degree of military efficiency has the ingenuity of man brought these boats which so recently as our Civil War were still in the vaguest experimental stage and scarcely possessed of any offensive power whatsoever!
For offensive purposes too the airplanes at so great an elevation would be heavily handicapped, if not indeed rendered impotent.
In order to be ready for the great 1918 offensive work must be begun at once.
A form of offensive weapon which for some reason seems peculiarly horrible to the human mind is the fléchette.
It has been a positive force both offensive and defensive.
This naturally suggested that a way be found to detect the presence of submarines early enough to make it possible to stave off an attack or even to assume the offensive against the underwater boat.
The all important and even vital necessity for speed also detracted much from the value of aircraft in offensive operations.
It is yet to be shown conclusively that as offensive engines aircraft have any great value.
This has become the accepted principle of aërial offensive warfare.
His offensivedive becomes a defensive one--that is the sole difference.
Fresh meat is firm in texture and free from offensive odor.
Seward must have felt that he was at the mercy of a superior man; that his offensive proposition had been generously pardoned as a temporary aberration of a great mind, and that he could atone for it only by devoted personal loyalty.
If so, I repeat my request of an absolute retraction of all offensive allusions contained therein in relation to my private character and standing.
The observation was certainly anoffensive one, especially when made to her son.
The dung heaps, and the pools generally attached to them, emitted a fetid and offensive smell; and the pigs were seen to carry straw into their sties, or such rude covers as had been constructed for them.
They have been weapons in the hands of dry, bigoted, offensive persons, until their brightness is clouded, their keen edge hacked and broken.
Such an attitude is as inartistic and offensive as for a duchess to think that fine courtesy and consideration could not be found among washerwomen.
Here Mrs Prig, without any abatement of her offensive manner again counterfeited abstraction of mind, and stretched out her hand to the teapot.
From all I can judge and from all I have heard of you through Pinch, you are not a likely kind of fellow to have been brought here by impertinent curiosity or any other offensive motive.
We are not all arrayed in two opposite ranks; the OFfensive and the DEfensive.
German) offensive was a brilliant feat, and will "ever be so regarded in history.
