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Example sentences for "orders came"

  • Orders came suddenly, at twelve o'clock in the night, to fall back across the Rappahannock.

  • Orders came in the afternoon to get ready to march the coming day.

  • Orders came to leave the picket line at dark, and return to Camp Jackson.

  • About the 6th orders came to strike tents and get ready to move camp.

  • Orders came at last, and the brigade was soon in motion again on the road to Yazoo City.

  • Orders came on the 27th for us to march in the morning at 6 o'clock, taking all our baggage, three days rations in haversacks, and two in wagons.

  • On the 19th of September, orders came to our regiment to move the following morning at sunrise, taking all our baggage.

  • September, orders came to march at 3 o'clock next morning, in what direction we could only conjecture.

  • In the evening, orders came that at an early date the IXth.

  • As no orders came, we waited here until soon after 3-0 p.

  • Boche started to fire gas shells into the valley up which all troops had to pass to reach Andigny les Fermes, orders came that we should take over the Brigade front.

  • In the midst of the service, orders came for us to break camp immediately.

  • February 10th, about noon, orders came for us to pack up and be ready to move immediately.

  • At noon on Tuesday, January 20, however, orders came for us to be in readiness to move early the next morning.

  • Still no orders came for us, and we began to realize that again our division was to cover the retreat, and be the last withdrawn.

  • Orders came for us to disembark here, and we were soon among the debris of the town.

  • On the 28th of October, orders came to clear all the camps of sick; and all from our Sixth corps were sent to hospitals in Hagerstown.

  • And when, after about four months stay, orders came to pack up and leave Picolata, not a regret was heard.

  • At midnight of the 6th orders came to be ready to take the cars on short notice.

  • The same night after returning to the Point, orders came to be ready to move at midnight.

  • Late in October the union officers having been removed to the rear of Charleston, orders came to send the rebel officers to Fort Pulaski, Ga.

  • Just before dress parade on the earlier date, at a quarter of six, orders came to have the Regiment ready to march to the Chain Bridge, the most northerly of the three great connections between the District and Virginia.

  • October 20th orders came to pack up, and a removal to the mouth of Muddy Branch was made, possibly three miles nearer Washington, where the old routine was continued.

  • Finally, without any warning, on the to us ever memorable 20th of February, '65, orders came to have the sick ready for removal.

  • After a day of routine on the 12th, while companies were forming for battalion drill, orders came to pack up and be ready to move out.

  • Orders came to the regiment on the morning of the 18th of August, to march at twelve o'clock.

  • About six o'clock the army halted near Dug Springs, and prepared to bivouac for the night; but, before the preparations were completed, orders came to push forward.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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