During the whole of the first onset he moved about on horseback close in the rear of his men, and appeared to bear a charmed life.
Away miles in our rear were the waggons and horses struggling up the hill.
Link left his seat by Jack's side, and walked back to the rear of the wagon.
The buggy, he noticed, had been whirled half-way round by the wind, so that the rear end was turned toward the porch.
Chokie in his tub, though at the long end of the beam, so to speak (the rear axletree being the fulcrum), was not heavy enough to counterbalance two brothers and a barrel of water at the short end.
So was the barrel of water, standing just back of the rear axletree.
In therear are the schoolhouses where Brigham Young's children are educated.
But a drink on the sly could always be had at one of the hard-goods stores, in the back office behind the pile of metal saucepans; or at one of the dry-goods stores, in the little parlor in the rear of the bales of calico.
Seth owned, or believed he did, certain rights in a small shed situate in the rear of Baxter Brothers' carpenter shop, where he made his home.
Let me see, you live in the rear of Baxter's carpenter shop, don't you?
Ben Dunton thrust Seth aside with his elbow at the very instant a wild scream was heard on the stairway in the rear of the firemen.
He labours to plant and to rear in it those vegetables that may be most useful to his family, and those shrubs and trees which may at once yield him their fruit and their shade: nor does he waste his efforts on a thankless soil.
The main body of his troops were encamped on the open grounds in the rear of the town.
Cornwallis and his whole army were directly in the rear of the Americans, and now was his only chance for striking an effective blow, for another day, and Greene might be beyond the Dan.
General Stevens had posted forty riflemen twenty paces in the rear of his brigade, with orders to shoot every man who should leave his post.
It is sheltered in therear by a thick forest of oaks, pines, and chestnuts, while from the front the eye overlooks almost the whole of his plantation of fourteen hundred acres, with occasional glimpses of the James River.
He encamped at Hackensack, in the rear of Fort Lee where General Greene was in command.
It is about forty-five feet square, with a recess in the rear twenty-five feet wide and about twelve feet deep, at the entrance of which are two pillars, eighteen feet high.
It was one o'clock, and the sun was pouring its rays down fiercely, when the rear of the British army reached the north side of the Monongahela.
Lee was the last to leave the field, and brought off Ogden's corps, the rear of the retreating troops, in admirable order.
After the royal salute had been given, the men fired the feu de joie, when the rifles are discharged one by one along the front rank from right to left and back again in the opposite direction down the rear rank.
Advanced, rear and flank guards protected us on all sides.
Over the level plain we spread out in fighting formation, one company forming an advanced guard and driving back the skirmishing line of the other which acted as the rear guard of a retreating enemy.
Suddenly I was roused by the sound of loud footfalls to my rear passing over the dry leaves which crackled like tin to the tread.
As he turned to call a warning, yellow-robed lamas, who had seen the reflected light on the rear wall, poured around the statue with wild yells, their torches held high.
It would be better if you took care of our equipment and sort of acted as rear guard.
Zircon and Scotty, at the rear of the column, were out of sight most of the time.
Scotty next, then Chahda, with Rick as rear guard.
Although they were reasonably sure no one would attack them, Zircon felt it was best to have a rear guard and they had taken turns at the end of the column.
All the sleds in the rear escaped, but Minnie's sled lay in the course of the falling mass.
Hawbury was taken to this house, and led up stairs into this room in the rear of the house.
And all the rear rank and file closers and most of the front rank heard him say it.
I was taught this morning that when an officer passed along inrear of the post without attempting to cross it, simply to stand at a carry, facing outwards.
An elongated wooden box painted dark green, divided into four compartments, with lids opening at the top, extended almost from front torear of the platform on the west side of the tent.
And so it happened he had made the circuit of the front rank without finding a satisfactory third man, nor had he better success on the right of the rear rank.
The doctor slipped away from the rear of the platform, and he was found pacing up and down behind the library just as they found him on the river-bank long years before, the evening of the last whipping he had ever given Pops.
A soft, mellow voice answered his query from the rear end of the cabin.
They traveled on the four rear legs, and held long, sharp, steel-pointed lances in their front antennas and two front legs.
Toplinsky shouted in his shrillest voice; from far in the rear of the cricket army came an answering call.
We are going into that hole,” he said slowly, instructing all who could hear to carry his words on to the rear ranks.
Slip back down the ladder, and go around to the rear of the ship.
Epworth knocked down the leader with the butt of his gun, and Toplinsky, seizing a large cricket by its rear legs, swung the insect around his head, and charged, knocking the copper men and crickets around like marbles.
In the rear of the room she accidentally struck a small round knob with her thumb.
When the gliders reached the end of the cricket army they sent up rockets, and then darted hither and yon over the rear ranks shooting chloroform in great quantities on all sides.
Her eyes took in a large warehouse-like room full of boxes and supplies piled from the floor to the ceiling, and extending three hundred feet toward the rear of the airship.
Then with deft footwork he slipped beneath the giant’s arms, battered him in the rear of his short ribs, and darted out of reach.
Frobisher under his breath, as the pair crept along in the deep shadow of the rear wall of the fort.
With a formal curtsey she left them then, and retreated up the stairs, which at the rear of the hall ascended to a gallery that ran right and left to the rooms on the first floor.
To make the most of the place, the two doors at the rear were hastily barricaded, the women shut in an inner chamber, and the mattresses and beds dragged out to put in front of the windows.
The conductor of the train, as he passed through the car, paused at the rear end and gazed thoughtfully at the little man huddled in the rear seat, who seemed unconscious of his regard.
The door into the hall was closed, but the glass door to the rear porch was wide open to let in the sun and air.
This time the little man with the fat nose deliberately swung himself to the rear platform, paid his fare and remained there.
Will Morrison was doubtless a mighty hunter and an expert fisherman, for the "den" at the rear of the Lodge was a regular museum of trophies of the chase.
You shall have therear seat all to yourself, and it is big and broad and comfortable.
So Mary Louise went to the "bank," which was a one-man affair situated in the rear of the hardware store, where a grating had been placed in one corner.
There was a glass door that led onto a little porch at the rear of the Lodge and a big window that faced the cliff.
As the conductor called the station the train halted and the girl passed the rear seat, where the man had his bare head half out the open window, and descended from the car to the platform.
Peter picked up a stick and shook it threateningly, whereat Bub smiled and walked to the rear of the garage where an iron plug appeared just above the surface of the ground.
As each door was blown in the building to which it belonged was stormed; the enemy, however, contriving to effect an exit by the rear as our lads poured in at the front.
But on our flanks and in our rear there had gathered great numbers of Portuguese militia, of armed peasants, and of guerillas.
Tell him that he is to fall upon the left flank and rear of the English while I attack them in front.
If he advanced upon therear of the English instead of following the Prussians all would be well.
I then pushed on more briskly, for I wished to be in therear of the whole army by daybreak.
Our cavalry will follow the rear of the beaten army, but the Emperor will be far away at the front of the throng.
The point men had orders to let them go, and as fast as the rear herds came up and struck this imaginary line or air current, a single moan would surge back through the herd until it died out at the rear.
On the evening of the third day, the rear herd passed the exit of the cañon, the others having turned aside to camp for the night.
My excuse won, and taking the case of bitters on my shoulder, I bore it away to the nearest livery stable, where I wrote a note, with my compliments, and sent both by a darkey around to the rear door of the convention hall.
Other herds were seen in our rearand front, and as we neared the Kansas line several long columns of cattle were sighted coming in over the safer eastern routes.
The cows came in early and were started west for their destination, the rear herds arrived and were located, while Dodge and Ogalalla howled their advantages as rival trail towns.
Ten days afterward I noticed a number of my steers were ailing; their ears drooped, they refused to eat, and fell to the rear as we grazed forward.
The rear was finally abandoned, and when half the distance was covered, the drag cattle to the number of fully five hundred turned out of the trail and struck direct for the river.
When the Comanches had satisfied themselves that but two men were following them, small bands of warriors dropped out under cover of the broken country and attempted to gain the rear of our men.
The political situation had quieted down, and it was generally admitted that a Reconstruction government could never again rear its head on Texas soil.
I waited until the third one put in an appearance, leaving orders for it and the two rear ones to camp on some convenient creek in the Outlet near Caldwell.
The rear herds turned off above and below, filling the river for five miles, while the hollow-eyed animals gorged themselves until a half dozen died that evening and night.
We enjoyed his company for over a month, I could call him with a song as far as my voice reached, and when death again threatened him, we cut him to the rear and he was never spoken again.
I rode from rear to front and back again a dozen times in clearing the defile, and noted that splotches of blood from tender-footed cattle marked the white pebbles at every crossing of the river-bed.
Major Hunter was anxious to reach home as soon as possible, in order to buy in our complement of northern wintered cattle; so, settling our business affairs in southern Texas, the day after the rear beeves passed we took train north.
Further, what Hans had stumbled on was a mere rear guard left around the place of sacrifice and the hut where Inez was confined.
Miles suffered the enemy to march not less than 6 miles till they came near two miles in rear of the guards before he discovered & gave notice of their approach.
De Fermoy was to follow in Greene's rear with Hand's riflemen and Hausegger's German battalion from Pennsylvania.
Retreating from the lines, Douglas's men scattered to the rear towards the Post Road, and the enemy who landed and formed rapidly were soon after them.
What, in the first place, had Miles been about in the woods on the extreme left that the enemy should gain his rear before he knew it?
His left was well covered by Parsons, and no one could have imagined his rear in danger with the other outposts guarding it for more than three miles.
Long Island, exclusive of their quarter & rear guards, are to mount a picket every evening at retreat beating at sun set, consisting of one Capt.
For them to advance into the country with such a fortification in their rear would be a hazardous move.
Again, it is charged that when Putnam and Sullivan visited the extreme left on the 26th "the movements of the enemy plainly disclosed that it was their intention to get into the rear of the Americans by the Jamaica Road," yet nothing was done.
Accordingly he formed the plan of engaging the enemy's attention in their front, while a flanking party should attempt to get into their rear and cut off their escape.
The American position, he says, was now "so advantageous that any attack on them must have proved unsuccessful, for the river Croton stretched along their front, and their rear was defended by woods and heights.
While marching in the rearof the enemy's line, they were holding a Council of War, whether to storm our lines, or take them by a regular siege.
Well, I admit there are a lot of rear ends in this town that could stand a little cut off here and there, but some of them are so tough you would have to use a hack-saw to do it," tittered Evelyn.
I'd cut enough meat off her rear end to feed the dogs for a week," said Pearl, viciously.
Most of the families of Gulls are somewhat migratory, visiting northern regions in summer to rear their young.
Rear triangle 3/4 inch tubing in the lower and upright bars.
What are you going to be, Jack--fifth corporal or first admiral of the rear guard?
Nappy Martell left the Hall by a rear door, and the Rovers followed.
Graham, with the left column of the British, made a circuit in the direction of Bilbao, working round to cut off the French rear on the Bayonne road.
Wellington had no wish to risk a battle, unless Salamanca or his own rear should be seriously threatened, and he stood on the defensive, a little south of Salamanca, with Marmont's army encamped in front of him.
According to Nelson's plan Collingwood was to attack the rear of the enemy's line, while he himself cut off and paralysed the centre and van.
A joint army was to effect this conquest and then make a descent on North Germany, threatening the rear of the French army of invasion.
Some rear their heads and disappear after a short (geological) existence.
The rear portions of the body and hind limbs were very weak.
