By the rules of the game the pieces were injured beyond repair by the gun-cotton charges which the sappers had fired in the breeches and muzzles; but the heavier gun was removed to Pretoria, where it was made serviceable.
The news however of Yule's success at Talana changed the situation and seemed to justify a more forward policy; and early in the morning of October 21 French was sent out to re-occupy Elandslaagte and repair the line.
Olaf, emphasizing here as ever his role as the legitimate heir of his great kinsman, began to repair the dilapidated houses and arranged himself as well as he could with his retinue.
With undaunted resolution he set to work to repair his losses and to equip himself once more to meet his foes.
By his powerful intercession, checked only by the disgust which Mary of Modena felt towards Lovat, he procured from the King of France permission for his relative torepair to the waters of Bourbon for the restoration of his health.
They quickly acquainted themselves with all they desired to know, and, immediately they got back, the commanders of all the vessels were directed to repair on board the flagship to receive instructions.
A formal expostulation being transmitted to Napoleon, he proposed to repair the injury of the Duke of Oldenburg, by assigning to him the town and territory of Erfurt, with the lordship of Blankenheim.
It had been the intention of Sir Reginald thoroughly to repairhis mansion; but, falling sick, and in low spirits, he had ordered the preparations to be delayed.
The doctor found that he had still a difficult task to play; he knew that his artifice was discovered, and that the best way to repair the error was to boldly throw off the transparent disguise.
The Brain has discarded its earlier childish ideas about heaven and hell as "soul factories" and "repair shops".
There probably would be somerepair work going on in those circuits.
Pulsemeter still at old place, not taken out forrepair work as I had feared.
And it will always be the same so long as no other way is found to repair the harm done by a law recognised as bad than the application of a new law.
Alfred survived for four years after his final triumph in 896, to complete the organization of his fleet and to repair the damages done by the last four years of constant fighting.
The walls were entirely clothed with books; most of them folios and quartos, and all in that complete state of repair which at a glance reveals a tinge of bibliomania.
We unbent the sails to repair them; several having been split, and otherwise damaged in the late gale.
Early in the morning of the 12th, I ordered the carpenter to work, to repair the cutter, and the water to be re-placed, which we had expended the three preceding days.
Our sails and rigging were so much worn, that something was giving way every hour; and we had nothing left either to repair or to replace them.
That I may possibly by this letter do something, however late, to repair this wrong is my chief consolation on leaving the world.
Not by denying the mistakes, but by saying what we have done and what we are doing to repair them.
To what source could he repair for the means of elucidation?
But the mark is upon the dress--and a single touch with the brush will repair the injury.
You would have me repairforthwith to Ellingham House, and by seeking some cause of dispute with one or more of its inmates, seize the opportunity to proclaim aloud all the tremendous secrets which you have just revealed to me.
Cleodamus, one of the engineers employed by the emperor's orders to fortify the maritime cities against the Goths, had already begun to repair the ancient walls, fallen to decay since the time of Scylla.
He did some repair jobs on Washington's town house.
Mrs. Sheen with her son, Gordon, and a Negro went to General Dalton's empty house to repair the door and to lock the mansion.
It is true that both rooms were in a deplorable state of repair, and it was necessary to trace the work on paper, repair the plaster and then continue the interrupted design.
The Otagos had been called to support and repair the fearful losses, but the advance was checked.
He could mend a piece of broken furniture, repair the lock of a musket, and make himself generally useful.
Hungerford family, and in 1427 Sir Walter Hungerford granted the reversion of the manor to the dean and chapter of Salisbury cathedral to aid towards the repair of their belfry.
I have done all that could be done to repair the injury, and there the affair must rest.
The strife grew hotter as it drew to an end; the last efforts of strength were mutually exerted, and skill and courage did their utmost to repair in those precious moments the fortune of the day.
With rapid decision he committed to General Horn the pursuit of the enemy's left, while he flew, at the head of the regiment of Steinbock, to repair the disorder of his right wing.
The King was still a prisoner, and the Regent, freed from the constant enmity of Etienne Marcel, endeavoured torepair the misfortunes that had happened and to get the affairs of the State somewhat into order.
In all respects different from his father and grandfather, he set himself to try to repair the ruin and distress in which the kingdom was plunged.
We had shooting matches, almost daily, one canoe against the other, usually at any stop we happened to make, whether for luncheon or to repair the canoes, or merely to prospect the country.
In the first place one of the canoes appeared to have sprung a leak, and after our six-mile paddle this seemed a proper opportunity to rest and repair damages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "repair" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
