They assembled at Autas, in the range of mountains north-east of Taif, and threatened to raid the sacred city itself.
Under their chief Tuleiha, they planned a raidagainst Mahomet.
Why the Kureisch did not follow up their victory and attempt a raid upon Medina, it is difficult to imagine.
The raid in Jumad II (September) by Zeid was far more successful.
The attempted raid had nevertheless an important outcome, for by this exhibition of strength Mahomet succeeded in convincing a neighboring desert tribe, hitherto friendly to Mecca, of the advisability of seeking alliance with the Muslim.
He had been there only a few nights when he learnt that Oyeina, chief of the Fazara tribe, in concert with the Beni Ghatafan, had made a raid upon his milch camels at Ghaba, killing their keeper and torturing his wife.
It had been usual to meet such an onset as this by a raid of the same character, by a corresponding failure before the castle of the rebellious noble, and a retreat like his own which served as a preliminary to negotiations and a compromise.
A raid over the northern border distracted the English forces.
If they ever ask us why we did it, let's say we thought it only fair they should have some of the proceeds of the raid on the Cartaret grove, because they worked hard enough for it.
Undoubtedly they must have become convinced that their raid on the preserves of the ghostly guardian of the haunted Cartaret place had aroused the ire of the said defender, and that they were now in deadly danger of being seized by bony hands.
Santiago said that he hoped it would not be necessary to raid the Embassy without previously testing Rivas on less hazardous tasks.
But I hope we find it before we have to raid the fascists.
That he had been absent on a far-away foraging raid on the day of Zaraila had been nothing short of agony to Rake, and the choice made of him for this duty was to him a gift of paradise.
His projects of revolt having failed in Poitou and Auvergne, he made a raid into Burgundy at the head of a few troops in the expectation of raising the country against his father.
The complete success of our raid threw the Franks and bishops of the region into consternation.
Several times, to our knowledge, unwelcome visitors have been deterred from making a raid upon us, by the rumour of the robbers on the road.
But when the parents proposed a raid upon the bungalow that night they would not rise to it.
In 1859, very shortly before the raid at Harpers Ferry, Douglass met Brown by appointment, in an abandoned stone quarry near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
So rapid had been the course of events since his departure that the excitement over the John Brown raid had subsided.
When theraid at Harpers Ferry had roused the country, Douglass, with other leading Northern men, was indicted in Virginia for complicity in the affair.
West of Lens some Midland troops stormed and gained a line of trenches which belong to the main defences of the city, and north of it there was a big raid which caused great loss of life to the enemy.
The raid farther north inflicted frightful losses on the enemy in his dug-outs.
But, as though expecting a raid from one point, the enemy only barraged round a group of mine-craters, from which our men had been withdrawn, because their shafts were packed with explosives ready to be touched off at dawn.
A Spanish cruiser about to make reprisals for Drake's raidalong the Cadiz shore!
We were making a raid on an Indian village, which was peopled with very lively and very belligerent savages.
A few days after my return to Fort Hays the Indians made a raid on the Kansas Pacific Railroad, killing five or six men and running off a hundred or more horses and mules.
Quantrell once managed to collect a thousand men in a hurry, and to raid and sack Lawrence before the troops could head them off.
He gradually got back a part of his strength, enough of it at any rate to enable him to take part in the repulse of a raid of Missourians who came over to burn Lawrence and lynch the Abolitionists.
News that whisky was in the camp was likely to cause a raid by a large number of very dry scouts and soldier men.
Whenever and wherever we found that the scattered bands were getting together for a general raid we would at once notify the regulars at Fort Scott or Fort Leavenworth to be ready for them.
At daylight I jumped on Brigham, rode to Fort Hays, and reported the raid to the commanding officer.
Since a raid made by Colonel Montgomery up the Combahee, two months before, the vigilance of the Rebels had increased.
It was really no easy matter to bring everything to bear; especially as every projected raid must be kept a secret so far as possible.
One instance of pestilence following a Welsh raid in the thirteenth century has been given from Roger of Wendover.
Jameson, whom Botha wanted to hang after the raid in 1896.
When the suffragettes planned a raid upon Downing Street or the House of Commons, they gave notice of time and place, and were provided with a sufficient force of police to prevent it.
I mean that my Marats have orders to raid some of the haunts of our Nantese cut-throats, and that they may as well begin to-night and with the Rat Mort.
And since he had befriended the settlers in the days after the grasshopper raid he drew all the trade west of Big Wolf to this new town, cutting deep into the Wykerton business.
When a band of religious fanatics like the Boxers go on the warpath, their atrocities make a Cheyenne raid or a Kiowa massacre look like a football game.
One summer Sabbath afternoon, three years after the grasshopper raid of dreadful memory, Asher came again to the little grave in the Grass River graveyard where other graves were consecrating the valley in other hearts.
It is said that, while one of these trappers was out hunting, Indians made a raid on the post and massacred the others.
The man whose body was picked up in the Thames is undoubtedly the gentleman who was shot in the raid upon the Custom House.
I am perfectly certain that any attempt to raidthe house would result immediately in the bird flying.
It remained now for the Count to discover how far Farrington's affection for his niece had stayed his hand in his predatory raid upon the cash balances of his friends and relatives.
The underground trail ceased to exist with the passing of the Governor, and as you tour the Green Mountain State you may pause at Bill Walker's farm and enjoy a glass of buttermilk on his veranda without fear of a raid by the constabulary.
With a place like this to operate from they could raid this whole block and back vans up to my door and cart it away.
He passed to and fro among those who had been arrested in the raid and he arranged the testimony of some of them to suit his case.
Her friend had told her that Durand had made a flat offer to one of the dope fiends caught in the raid to look after him if he would swear that "Slim" had not drawn a gun.
But there wasn't any woman with Lindsay at Maddock's when the raid was pulled off.
His instinct had been to escape from the raid and from the consequences of what he had done, but of course he could not let anybody else suffer in his place.
The raid was fifteen minutes ahead of schedule time.
I'll have him get the names of all those pulled in the raid and visit them to see if he can't find some one who heard the shots or saw shooting.
A rascal, this latter, who, until a few weeks since, lived on the Abyssinian border, where he was able to raid and loot with impunity.
His mother had been rendered destitute as the outcome of a wild raid by the Mad Mullah, and Mahomed brought her, and a young brother, to Jubaland, where we lived.
Between us, Thad, I've got a pretty good notion Nick knew about this contemplated raidon Kramer's store.
He seemed to guess just where a boy like Leon would hide the spoils of a raid like this.
The deplorable thing in connection with the raid was that while it was in progress there was not a single machine in the air combatting the attackers, and not an anti-aircraft gun in action.
