Having thus pointed all the pieces at one end, he reverses them, and performs the same operation on the other.
I suppose that if a man has ever believed that we English have some sacred and separate right to be athletic, such reverses do appear quite enormous and shocking.
On the following day, Cortes, thinking that by these reverses and by the overthrow of their principal god, the Aztecs must be sufficiently humbled to submit, called a parley.
The success of Vouti was morally certain from the beginning, and after his army had suffered several reverses Sunhow threw up the struggle and surrendered to his opponent.
These efforts were not always successful, and Tien Wang's arms experienced as many reverses as successes.
The last years of his life were rendered unhappy and miserable by the reverses experienced at the hands of the new and formidable opponent who had suddenly appeared upon the northern frontier of the empire.
The truth is, that I have lately met with such reverses as have entirely ruined me.
When the engineer reverseshis engine, or otherwise alters its mode of operation, what he really does is to alter the structure of the machinery.
Bergson reverses the Platonic metaphysics: reality is the ever-changing and indefinable; rather, it is change itself.
The reverses of fortune, and the chances of matrimony, expose every woman in the Nation to such liabilities, for which she needs to be prepared.
Could it be that reverses of fortune with reference to moderate sums of money, such as this which was now coming into his hands, would always affect him in the same way?
And when he did see her he seemed to avoid all allusion either to the political successes or the political reverses of the Coalition.
Nearly the whole of his public life was spent in the service of a party which struggled against hopeless odds, which met with many reverses and few victories.
As before, the Negro was not universally welcomed to the ranks of the American Army; but later, continued reversesand a lack of enthusiasm in enlistments made it necessary to seek his aid, and from Mobile, Ala.
Crops had failed during successive years, and reverses of fortune had changed the humble mediocrity of my parents into comparative want.
The first year of the war, so far as regards the land campaigns, showed nothing but reverses and fiascoes.
At length, after a thousand reverses on the seas, a tempest precipitated his vessel on a rock, he saved himself on a floating wreck, and was driven by the waves towards the shores of the isle of the Phaeacians.
The mystic reverses the ordinary methods of reasoning: he must believe before he can know.
Revolutionary passion seemed to have died away: and the triumphs or reverses of party-leaders in the Chamber of Deputies succeeded to the harassing and doubtful conflict between Government and insurrection.
On everyone he could reach and influence he pressed the policy of standing firm, and the continuing reverses of the Tory party at by-elections played into his hands.
Their neglect of that precaution has brought about the reverses we have met with, and the natural consequence is the failure of our arms I have described.
The people fight in defence of their homes, and reverses destroy our armies without changing the spirit of the nation.
From thence came thereverses he suffered, and the evil he produced.
There are multitudes of persons who could easily withdraw $1,000 from their business and invest it in an establishment of this kind, and secure themselves against any reverses which may later overtake them.
The enemies of Germany, though they have hitherto suffered an almost unbroken series of reverses in the war, have already thoroughly thrashed out the subject as to what the world will look like when Germany is conquered.
It is one of those documents, rare in military annals, that frankly confesses a succession of initial reverses and official incompetence, only retrieved by exercise of the utmost skill in retreat.
I had the honor to form an acquaintance with Prince Louis-Ferdinand, the same whose warlike ardor so transported him, that his death was almost the precursor of the first reverses of his country.
Nevertheless a succession of reverseshad taken place, without the public being informed of them.
The reverses of fortune which she had met with made the destruction of her natural establishment extremely painful to her.
The English, with that admirable rectitude which distinguishes all their actions, publish as faithful an account of their reverses as they do of their victories, and enthusiasm is with them sustained by the truth, whatever that may be.
Overwhelmed by the most violent reverses of fortune after being so long accustomed to success, the King was even more overwhelmed by domestic misfortunes.
This war, which was diversified by many reverses and a great variety of fortune, took from Marius as much reputation and influence as it gave to Sulla.
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