Turenne, under similar circumstances, would have drawn off and forced the enemy to raise the siege by threatening their line of communications; but Turenne thought nothing of personal glory, and fought only for France.
It requires many days of mild weather toraise the temperature of soil in this condition, and of the air in contact with it, to that of the earth in the forests of the same climatic region.
Many again, including the apothecary's wife and daughter already mentioned, pretended to sorcery, and sold poisons, or attempted by means of charms and incantations to raise the devil.
About the same time two sorcerers in Toulouse were accused of having dragged a crucifix about the streets at midnight, stopping at times to spit upon and kick it, and uttering at intervals an exorcism to raise the devil.
Satan was believed to be at everybody's call, to raise the whirlwind, draw down the lightning, blight the productions of the earth, or destroy the health and paralyse the limbs of man.
I know not whether that gentleman will think fit, either at the present or some future period, to raise the veil of mystery which hangs over these events, but of this I am sure, he will be unable to deny anything I advance.
He had himself experienced this misfortune when he was obliged to raise the siege of St. Jean d'Acre.
While in the bath he was continually turning on the warm water to raise the temperature, so that I was sometimes enveloped in such a dense vapour that I could not see to read, and was obliged to open the door.
That will give you the necessary money to raise the funds; and then Joseph may sell out, and recover his losses.
Be, and to raise thedead in general by the single word Kum, i.
Do they not know that GOD, who hath created the heavens and the earth, and was not fatigued with the creation thereof, is able to raise the dead to life?
Others that they are all in the trumpet whose sound is to raise the dead.
He firmly believed that the three hundred thousand francs had been squandered; the d'Esgrignons must sell or mortgage all that they had to raise the money; the Assize Court was inevitable to his mind.
His Majesty steadily refused to raise the d'Esgrignons to the peerage, the one royal favor which could rescue Victurnien from his wretched position.
They appeared limited to the choice either to abandon Megara or to raise the siege of Aegina: so reasoned the Peloponnesians.
All things conspired to raise theson of Miltiades to an eminence beyond his years, but not his capacities.
The latter was now forced to attack the fortifications or to raise the siege of Knoxville.
On the 1st of December wagon trains began to move eastward from the besiegers' camp, and on the 3d and 4th more of them, so that it became probable that Longstreet was about to raise the siege.
The adventurous soldier, leaving Quiroga in the peninsula of Leon, then marched into the interior of Andalusia (January 27), endeavouring to raise the inhabitants of the towns.
Theodor Wladimiresco, a Roumanian who had served in the Russian army, was ready to raise thestandard of revolt among his countrymen.
Cochrane, having found it impossible to raise the population on the south of the Clyde, rejoined Argyle, who was in the island of Bute.
The object of the great Whig plot was to raise the nation in arms against the government.
Vendome felt sure, he said, of cutting off all supplies from the enemy, and thus compelling them to raise the siege.
The King of Spain saw, at last, that there was no help for it but to raise the siege.
The second question is how to act upon the enemy's expenditure in strength, that is, to raise the price of success.
He had come to relieve Rouen and to raise the siege, and he preferred to do his work thoroughly.
Next, the main effort to raise the status of the workmen is ill-directed towards raising or sustaining the rate of wages, else towards dictating concerning the management.
Machinery does not raise the rate of profits or interest; it does raise the rate of wages: compare Manchester and Buckingham in proof.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raise the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
