The defence of New York, against an enemy commanding the sea, requires an army capable of meeting him in the open field, and of acting offensively both on Long and York Islands.
And lastly, to administer the strongest oath that can be devised to act offensively and defensively in support of the common rights.
He was, however, disappointed in his favourite hope of being able to act offensively against the French on the Ohio.
By the help of these I have known some men refuse favors less offensively than others granted them.
The relative situation of the hostile armies presenting insuperable obstacles to any grand operation they could be employed offensively only on detached expeditions.
To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to beoffensively bright or showy.
He has thrust himself offensively upon me in this measure; I believe my better plan will be to take no more heed of him than I should of the dirt under my feet.
A man in New York runs a very short career if he tries to be offensively civil.
There was nothing, however, offensively familiar in this action.
Of my own deficient words, I can only in truest courtesy maintain that any alteration must of necessity make them less offensively commonplace than at present they are.
The third book, after a short and offensivelyallusive description of the labours of preceding poets, sketches the twelve athla or accidents of human life, to each of which is assigned its special guardian influence.
The fragment that remains is from the fifteenth and sixteenth books, and is a mixture of verse and prose in excellent Latinity, but deplorably and offensively obscene.
There was little in all this that was not implied in Llewelyn's position as vassal, and he himself did not complain that the conditions had ever been offensively pressed.
He issued his monition to the Bishop of London to inhibit the building any more of these offensively sumptuous edifices, and to compel the Jews to destroy those built within a prescribed time.
In this prosecution, as in the impeachment of Judge Chase of the Supreme Court, executive encouragement and aid were offensivelyopen and notorious.
The right of search was claimed by both powers, and offensively exercised by England.
Baxter was a man of some ability, but, in the style of critics, offensively contemptuous towards his brethren of the craft.
With that swift severity with which we always visit rebuke upon the person who happens to present any one of our vices offensivelybefore us, in his own person, I was deeply indignant at his laziness.
Joyce held that I was offensively aesthetic in regarding sign-boards about the countryside as ugly things.
The aeroplane has been celebrated so enthusiastically in the course of its brief life that it must by now be a most offensively conceited machine.
While I saw constant regard paid for personal rights, I saw only one case in which they were offensively asserted.
VI A case in which a personal wrong rather than a personal right was offensively asserted, was that of a lady, young and too fair to be so unfair, in a crowded train coming from the Doncaster Races to York.
A man at arms, is a soldier armed at all points both offensively and defensively.
