At this juncture the Olynthians sent out their cavalry at full gallop, backed by supports of light infantry; and finally their heavy infantry reserves poured out and fell upon the enemy's lines, now in thorough confusion.
Of the single million soldiers raised by the South only two hundred thousand remained in arms, half starved, half clad, with the scantiest of munitions, and without reserves of any kind.
Again the Confederate front was broken, but again their reservesdrove back the Federals.
In reserves the odds were very much greater; for while the South was getting down to its last available man the North began the following year with nearly one million in the forces and two millions on the registered reserve.
Then the Confederate reservescharged in and drove the Federals back.
The total odds were therefore five to one withoutreserves and ten to one if these came in.
But whether a system of proration based on hourly potential is as fair as one based upon estimated recoverable reserves or some other combination of factors is a question for administrative and not judicial judgment.
Neither is a State statute which requires a foreign insurance company, as part of the price of entry, to maintain reserves computed by a specific percentage of premiums, including membership fees, received in all States.
As the close approach of the Prussians now completely protected the Duke's left, he had drawn some reserves of horse from that quarter, and he had a brigade of Hussars under Vivian fresh and ready at hand.
The Duke is often talked of as having exhausted his reservesin the action.
The youth in the poem is allowed to read the Veda, and to accumulate merit by his own as well as his father’s pious acts; whereas the exclusive Code reserves all such privileges to Divijas invested with the sacred cord.
At this critical moment our reserves came up in good style and entered the conflict.
The entire Union force was now engaged, and the rebel commander was bringing his reserves forward and re-enforcing his lines.
Waterberry, a gallant officer who had brought up our reserves on our first repulse, was killed while trying to rally his men.
They struck Sherwood's command on the center and right flank and drove him from his first position back on the reserves and a part of his command entirely from the field.
He could be seen re-organizing his forces and putting his reserves in line.
The enemy had many more than we--heavy reserves to whom panic might or might not have been communicated.
Every moment that we wait they gain in steadiness, and other reserves will come up.
That McDowell would use his numerous reserves was so probable a card that Bonham and Longstreet, started upon the pursuit, were recalled.
What of Blackburn and Mitchell's fords, and Longstreet's demonstration, and the enemy's reserves across Bull Run?
The aide got a flag from the quartermaster's tent; found moreover a very few artillery reserves and an old cranky howitzer.
What if the Federal reserves had not stood, but had fled with the rest, and we had in some fashion achieved the Potomac?
Thee I'll reserve, as Heav'n reserves his crown, Till his rebellious foes be overthrown.
But perhaps the Captain reserves these and some other points to be the subject-matter of another Journal when he comes to a country where he can make a plain declaration of all that he knows with freedom and safety.
And everywhere soldiers--wounded ones bound for southern France, reserves not yet sent up.
As we came into Soissons we left the reserves behind.
One of the officers in speaking of this said that early in the autumn the reserves were pretty homesick.
Good war is to have millions of shells and vastreserves ready and to go in over a broad area and keep on going night and day, with a Niagara of artillery, as fresh battalions are fed into the conflict.
The reserves were around their camp-fires making savoury stews for the evening meal.
I saw some in trenches occupied by Bavarian reserves not far back of where their firing-line had been.
If the world war taught any economic lesson to civilized men which they should remember and act on, it is that low cost food reserves should be provided against possible exigencies.
Only to a limited extent can such reserves be accumulated out of the production of our ordinary cereals and commonly cultivated crops.
Potential reserves in the form of fruitful nut trees can be established at relative light initial investment or of continuing care and labor on almost every farm and by many a roadside in much of our farming territory.
One of these clauses reserves to each of the thirteen States the right to import slaves until the year 1808, if it thinks proper.
So faithful were they to their duty, that before the reserves reached them the Germans were already extricating themselves from their own dead and wounded, and hurriedly beating a retreat toward their own lines.
In the meantime both their reserves of men and munitions were being pushed up to await them on the San line.
Our trenches were just on the edge of it while our guns and reserves were behind us.
Then they suspended entirely and once again quiet reigned through the woodland in which our reserves were.
The sun had set now, and in the after glow we passed once more the camps of the reserves squatting about their little twinkling fires built in the earth to mask them from the sight of the enemy.
A strained situation was revealed in 1887, and for the next seven years the bank underwent a series of reverses, ending in the loss of the whole of the capital and reserves and one-third of the reserve liability.
Three other parks, which lie outside the city boundary, on the shores of the Manukau Harbour, were also added to the city's reserves by the generosity of various donors.
Did they think our reserves were massed in the wood?
Presently they would reach the dark line that stretched before us, mute and mysterious; they would mass their dense reserves in the rear, and suddenly thousands of lightning flashes would illuminate the fringe of the thicket.
He was on the point of being torn to pieces by the wolf pack that had trailed him, and the powerful stimulus of the new peril called out the last reserves of strength.
They knew of several forest reserves in northern Ontario where timber and game are closely protected, but they had never heard of one in this district.
The reserves of the Prussian infantry having been despatched to St. Amand, Blucher had no means of repelling this attack, save by his cavalry.
The Russian and Prussian body-guards had charge to attack the centre of the enemy, posted upon the canal de l'Ourcq, the reserves of which occupied the eminence called Montmartre.
Their numerous reserves were brought up, and their long train of artillery got into line.
Blucher had employed his reserves to support his right at St. Amand, and was not prepared for this change of attack.
It began among the reserves who were with the king on the slope of the hill.
We fear it is full time for the reserves to move, if it be not even now too late.
There were those who thought it hard of the king, but better it was that he should hold his reserves for utter need.
Who knows, had these reserves been reached sooner by strict justice and patient kindness, that they might not long since have helped to heal the wounds of slavery?
The colonel touched the reserves of loyalty in the Negro nature, exemplified in old Peter and such as he.
The reserves arrive, and it is different; they take care of me.
March 5--Germans checked at Rheims; report of Sir John French says situation is unchanged in Belgium; Germans are holding reserves in Alsace.
At first the German Army had to use the food they could get by foraging in Belgium, for the country does not begin to produce the food it needs for its own consumption, and there were no great reserves that our troops could use.
Valuable reserves prepared by farseeing nature for that time when man will have exhausted his mines on the continents.
