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Example sentences for "relief party"

  • Graves, in company with a relief party, found the remains of C.

  • It must have occurred the morning the relief party left.

  • In Patrick Breen's diary are found the following entries, which allude to Captain Tucker's relief party: "Feb.

  • The "relief party" secured the legislature and the executive of the Commonwealth.

  • Morrison, the Times correspondent, got together a relief party, who went out and brought in a large convoy of refugees, and terrible tales of the scenes of slaughter that they had witnessed.

  • So convinced were the military authorities that the Legations had fallen that there was no talk of sending a relief party, and it was proposed to wait till an army forty thousand or fifty thousand strong was collected.

  • We expect some more troops up to–morrow, and I have no doubt that, as soon as he has given our assailants here a good thrashing, he will send out a relief party to Seymour.

  • He reached Perth after terrible suffering and privation, and a relief party was at once sent out, but they only found one man, who had left the others, thinking they were travelling too slow.

  • Encountering great troubles Grey had to push on to Perth and send back a relief party.

  • At last, when ninety miles from Pontebadgery, the place where Sturt believed the relief party to be camped, he determined to dispatch two men for provisions and await their return.

  • The Manyuema had promised me three several times by this day to send eighty men as a relief party to Nelson's camp, but the arrival of Sangarameni, and misunderstandings, and other trifles, had disturbed the arrangements.

  • Yet we were anxious, and one of my first duties was to try and engage a relief party to take food to Nelson's camp.

  • But events were not progressing smoothly, I could obtain no favourable answer to my entreaty for a relief party.

  • A relief party consisting of a company of men under Enoch Ross as captain made the march up the Raccoon River to Storm Lake and across country to the Mead home on the Little Sioux.

  • An attempt was made to organize a relief party at Fort Dodge, but the effort was soon abandoned by its promoters.

  • Aroused by his tale, the settlers organized a relief party to return to his cabin and if possible to punish the Indians.

  • The thought uppermost in the minds of most members of the settlement was to send a relief party to the lakes at once.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accomplish anything; actual service; and let; board feet; coal fire; five parasangs; forced labour; fust rate; grain doses; green tomatoes; had made; human hands; little essence; little turn; not fit; relief from; relief party; relief work; third lieutenant; three ranks; winged woodpecker; woman like; you just; your face