We put them in our camions and took them ten kilometers to the Oise Canal, there transferred them to barges and thus they were conveyed to Paris.
The refugees gradually were evacuated through to Paris and beyond, while the service in the valleys of the Somme and the Oisebecame more strictly military in character.
They had mined all the bridges over the Oise and were ready to blow them up as they retreated.
If Bourdon de l'Oise is an honest man he will examine me, but lest he should not I subjoin the following.
Vanhuele wrote me on the next day and said: "Bourdon de l'Oise [who was one of the examining Deputies] is the most inveterate enemy you can have.
See here what Bourdon de l'Oise has called an intrigue.
Meanwhile, each side had been feverishly extending its lines from the Oise towards the north and pushing forward cavalry to turn the exposed flank of the opponent.
The chief striking force was concentrated in the extreme north, and advanced in an immense arc across the Meuse, the Scheldt, the Somme, and the Oiseto the outskirts of Paris.
But there was another month of open fighting between the Oise and the sea.
German effort to break through reached, and passed, its climax, and trench warfare established itself as decisively from the Oise to the sea as it had done a month earlier between the Vosges and the Oise.
Françoise soothed the little girl and questioned her.
The mystery of such a strange occurrence may never be solved, but Françoise threw herself on the ground in a corner where the little garden had stood, and began to dig furiously in the earth.
This light came from the funeral pyre of Françoise and the old man.
Françoise and old Lasvène have done their duty ere they died.
And Françoise dragged herself forward and fanned the flames with her dying breath.
Françoise started up, as if sustained by supernatural strength.
Françoise was silent, except a few low words that she muttered under her breath at long intervals.
What motive had Françoise in these persistent wanderings?
His voice was so sympathetic and persuasive that Françoise saw it all, saw the little rosy face once more.
He had come to Paris as quickly as possible, leaving Françoise and Caillette to follow.
While the Russians burned the cottage where Françoise and the children had taken shelter, Talizac, in order to ensure his possession of the title and Fongereues estates, set fire to the inn which was Simon's home.
As he advanced, he recalled how Françoise had praised her.
It is said that the department of Seine-et-Oise is looking for a site on which to build a hospital; why did it not long ago decide to appropriate the Chateau de Maisons for this purpose?
We cross back to the right bank of the Oise to admire the stone steeple of Venette, pleasingly planted on the pedestal of a Romanesque tower: we reach Compiegne.
By talking with the men who drive their horses upon the towpath, it is easy to guess that the Oise is born in Belgium.
I proposed to my friend to pass in review all the churches of the Oise Valley from Saint Leu d'Esserent to Noyon.
Written, as these essays were, through a series of years, his descriptions of Soissons and the valley of the Oise tell us of since-devastated regions as they were before the whirlwind and havoc of war swept over heroic France.
The administrators of Seine-et-Oise sometimes took a fancy to hunt in the neighborhood of Sainte Radegonde.
The low hills, covered with forests, lie in the distance and never come near enough to force the Oise to sudden detours.
He had ordered the 5th French Army on the Oise to move forward and attack the Germans on the Somme, and this meant less pressure on the British.
By the 20th of September the 6th French Army, under General Maunoury, was lying south of the village of Lassigny, a day's march to the north of the confluence of the Oise and the Aisne.
The British were thus able to retreat without much molestation, and by the evening of Friday, the 28th, they were assembled along the Oise from La Fère to Noyon.
The French left, however, was still moving up the Oisetowards Noyon.
Between the Oise and Arras the French were holding their own with difficulty; in the Arras position they were fairly strong, but round Lille, which was held by French Territorials, they had but a mere ribbon of troops.
Amidst the wooded hills which lie between the village and the Oise there was very heavy fighting, which lasted several days.
You will remember that, as early as 11th September, General Joffre had sent the left of the 6th French Army along the Oise in order to prevent von Kluck from trying an outflanking movement.
Illustration: The British Retreat from Mons to the Oise (Aug.
By this time von Kluck had passed the confluence of the Oise and the Aisne, and a cavalry corps on his left had actually reached the Marne.
The road to Paris down the Oisewas no longer a doubtful adventure.
Lower down Generals Webern and Von Conta, with troops of the Seventh Army under Von Gayl, captured Ham, and forced the French who had crossed the Oise back to Chauny.
On the Oise front German detachments, consisting of a battalion of storming troops, having succeeded in crossing the river at Chauny, attempted to establish a bridgehead on the left bank.
One German flank extended eastward through Lassigny to the Oise and the other along the Avre and behind it.
They planned to strike a mighty blow along the Oise between St. Quentin and La Fere, at the junction of the French and British troops.
The five-days' battle west of the Oise had ended for the Germans in a costly reverse after they had made an advance varying from two to six miles.
Once it was turned by way of the Matz, the defenders, with the Oise behind them, could not continue to hold firm without risking great losses of men and material.
This neat operation carried out by the British in the Lys sector was duplicated by the French on the following day when they attacked north and northwest of Hautebraye, between the Oise and the Aisne, and improved their positions there.
The French line now ran along the southern side of the Aisne-Oise Canal without a break, from westward of Vauxaillon to the town of Filain.
This accomplished, they would push on up the Oise valley, and by throwing large forces across the British right turn it and roll it up.
Françoise trembled lest the fever that was in her should infect him.
He could only conceive it, and with the aid of Françoise realize a few rough sketches.
Françoise could not have submitted to living openly with Christophe.
Françoise had grown up amid scenes of violence and shameful things.
But Françoise knew the reason better than Christophe: it is very rarely that a man like Christophe loves those who can do him good: rather he is apt to love those who can do him harm.
Françoise smiled and supported his head to keep him from falling.
He remembered an ironic saying of Françoise Oudon: "How is it that you and Philomela, who would do so well as husband and wife, are not in love with each other?
Françoise was all the more keenly conscious of the necessity, inasmuch as she was incapable of such disinterestedness, and always played herself.
Françoise had an elder sister who was a servant in the inn: she was worked to death; the proprietor made her his mistress in the sight and knowledge of her mother; she was consumptive, and had died.
The painter of the banks of the Oise saw everything with the curiosity and the love of a child, and remained always a naive artist in spite of all his dexterity.
One of his pupils declares that once, when they stood at night on the bridge of the Oise during a storm, Dupre broke into a paroxysm of tears at the magnificent spectacle.
What with the Oise and its affluents, and the many watercourses created about the place, either to drain the marsh lands or to facilitate navigation, Chauny really is an aquatic little capital like Annecy in Savoy.
As, in one direction, Picardy extends into the modern Department of the Pas-de-Calais, so in other directions it includes no inconsiderable part of the modern Departments of the Oise and of the Aisne.
Numerous canals fed from the Oisetraverse this immense area, some of them supplying water-power, others serving as waterways.
This also concerned a canal, the canal which unites the Oisewith the Somme.
Before the middle of May Philip was encamped before refractory Compiegne, with only the Oise between.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
