Retirements under fire to a supporting line are dangerous, especially at night.
Retirements must therefore be carried out on the principle of alternate bounds under covering fire of co-operating bodies, which withdraw, in their turn, under covering fire from the troops they have protected.
In consequence of this danger suchretirements are rarely permissible at night.
Thence, to the island Nesis, once the fabulous Nymph; and thus we leave the Baia, so renowned for the sweet retirements of the most opulent and voluptuous Romans.
This limitation causes retirements after a number of years for more remunerative posts.
Since the above there has been no retirements in life insurance, but four or five new companies have been added.
First came rumours of heavy fighting to the north, around Przasnys, Lomza, Ciechanow, and reports of Russian reverses and retirements on a new line of defence, and forthwith Warsaw was again thrown into a state of excessive nerves.
Probably we need expect nothing important for some months here and further retirements may be viewed with equanimity by the Allies.
Probably one must expect retirements and rearguard actions for some weeks to come.
From the first day that I joined this army, I felt the conviction that it could be relied upon to take care of itself, and that its retirements or changes of front could be viewed with something approaching to equanimity.
Besides, as I gather from officers in that part of his army, further retirements of the next army kept exposing their flank, and made it imperative for the whole army to commence its retreat toward the Russian frontier.
Similarly, retirements should be carried out at considerably increased intervals, by alternate batteries or sections if necessary, and care should be taken to travel quickly through the danger zone of hostile artillery fire.
Justice to the veterans of the Civil War who are still in the Army would seem to require that in the matter of retirements they be given by law the same privileges accorded to their comrades in the Navy.
Archaic] This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations.
What can be uneasy to this sociable creature than the dry, pensiveretirements of solitude South.
In our Retirements every thing disposes us to be serious.
From its top successive smaller parallel ridges (indicating the periodic retirements of the glacier) lead down to the ice, which must have sunk several hundred feet.
It is not at first sight evident whether the terracing is due to periodic retirements of the ocean, or to the levelling effects of rivers that have cut channels through the deposit.
I was entirely content to await the ordinary course of events, in view of pending legislation relative to retirements for age, and of retirements which might be made under the laws then existing.
I will explain that while it is usually easy to advance against an Asiatic, all retirements are matters of danger.
I had the opportunity of witnessing six of these retirements from the rear companies.
In a war of long marches, of uncertain fortunes, of retirements often delayed and always pressed, there have been many occasions when regiments and companies have unexpectedly had to stop out all night without food.
As the enemy seize every point as soon as it is left, all retirements should be masked by leaving two or three men behind from each company.
But as the people below had a large acquaintance, she did not know how often she might indeed have her retirements invaded, if she gave way.
And let me ask you, Mr. Lovelace, why are my retirements to be thus invaded?
The king's occasional retirements to Royston and Newmarket have even been surmised to have borne some analogy to the horrid Capræa of Tiberius; but a witness has accidentally detailed the king's uniform life in these occasional seclusions.
At the close of his life, his literary labours in his other retirementsare detailed with a proud satisfaction.
Similarly retirements should be carried out, at considerably increased intervals, by alternate batteries or sections, if necessary, and care should be taken to travel quickly through the dangerous zone of hostile artillery fire.
The Boers, watching the commencement of the move, were under the impression that a repetition of the retirements from Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz was to be enacted.
Do their secret retirements witness the earnestness of their prayers and the warmth of their thanksgivings, their diligence and impartiality in the necessary work of self-examination, their mindfulness of the benevolent duty of intercession?
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