In the intervals between these onsets the French light troops poured in their missiles, but though the clump of pikes and halberds grew smaller it still remained impenetrable.
The onsets of the cavalry, though they never succeeded in breaking the phalanx, forced it to halt and 'form the hedgehog.
There is surely no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
Obviously it was unsafe to march towards the Balkans until both flanks were secured against onsets from the Quadrilateral on the east, and from Nicopolis and Widdin on the west.
Elsewhere the onsets were repelled by the French, who, despite their smaller numbers, kept up a sturdy resistance on the line of hills in the woods behind, and in the iron-works in front of Forbach.
Of a truth not longer did Italy once suffer the assaults of her most famous enemy, the great Hannibal; nor did she then endure more frequent onsets of her would-be lover, nor was consumed with more furious fires.
The pains of the body, the onsets of fever, attest the fact; and whom has the favour of Heaven made exempt?
He was mortally wounded at the head of his men while making one of those tremendous onsetswhich it was the pride of his soul to conduct.
Toward the end of the day, the Confederate onsets proved irresistible and the Federal forces in large part at least, fell into retreat.
Several large Sugar Pines stood near the thicket in which I was sheltered, bowing solemnly and tossing their long arms as if interpreting the very words of the storm while accepting its wildest onsets with passionate exhilaration.
I know those royal features, which bear the lineaments of a long race of kings, and that voice have I heard, often, rallying the squadrons of Aragon, in their onsets against the Moor.
They were gallant and chivalric men, and their fierce onsets left the field thickly strewn with dead and wounded.
Under cover of this welcome screen, Victor and Lannes restored some order to their divisions and checked for a time the onsets of the enemy.
Notwithstanding the refusal of the Scythians to give the Persians battle, they yet made, from time to time, partial and unexpected onsets upon their camp, seizing occasions when they hoped to find their enemies off their guard.
Thus the mighty monarch of the whole Asiatic world seemed to depend for protection against the onsets of these rude and savage troops on the braying of his asses!
Nor can Benaiah's worth forgotten lie, Of steady soul when public storms were high; Whose conduct, while the Moor fierce onsets made, Secured at once our honour and our trade.
Hence the French operations were confined to fierce and incessant onsets with masses of cavalry and infantry, generally supported by a numerous and destructive artillery.
Then in one of the fierce onsets which the Barbarians attempted before they had recourse to the simpler and less glorious method of crushing their foes by arrow fire, a Babylonian’s war club had dashed upon his helmet.
The first onsets of the Barbarians have failed, but nothing is decided.
For instance, in the cases so far quoted in this book, the onsetscharacterized by mere worry and unhappiness and gradual withdrawal of interest had all of them typical clinical pictures.
Hence, the French operations were confined to fierce and incessant onsets with masses of cavalry and infantry, generally supported by a numerous and destructive artillery.
It has also happened that young men have failed to make these onsets when they would have been welcome.
It undoubtedly has happened, oftener than it should have, in the history of the world that young men have made these onsets without just provocation and have been properly slapped, horsewhipped, or shot for their unwelcome violence.
He was destined to make, not long after, fiercer onsets in his polemic prose writings.
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