Two or three shepherds had to leave their places and use their nibbies unmercifully before the routwas quelled, and the service of the sanctuary resumed.
The inevitable result was their immediate rout and dispersion; about one hundred got back to Morgan's lines.
So inrout and wild dismay they fled back along the river bank, to the main army.
Suddenly, however, the murky gloom was shot through with beams of light, and a rout of savages, wild and bloody, filled the wide cave beneath us.
For in a moment the gate of the yard was broken down, and a rout of men in steel caps and hastily-donned armour came pouring in.
Succors at last appeared from England, under Sir Thomas Kyriel, and landed at Cherbourg: but these came very late, amounted only to four thousand men, and were soon after put to rout at Fourmigni by the count of Clermont.
La, Dick, you can't fight a routof women and men about your grandmother!
Her vaudeville was ending in a horrid rout and rabble; she was sore and sick with the recollection of it.
She had not realized how many there were, before, and to what a complete rout she had put them.
What became in the end of all the rabble rout which followed the army I know not.
From Sunday, the 21st, when the army marched out of Taunton, till the news came of their rout on Sedgemoor, we heard nothing certain about them.
Again, the great poet Milton hath represented his virtuous lady unharmed among the rabble rout of Comus, protected by her virtue alone.
And Matty told him, and begged him to come and sleep in her own little room, because the children would come in in a rout at daybreak.
Seven times did this intrepid general renew the attack; seven horses were shot under him, and he himself was pierced with six musket balls; yet he would not leave the field, until he was carried along in the general rout of the whole army.
Your Majesty, at the head of the army and the citizen militia, would overwhelm and rout them.
The English officer, to whom Sir James Turner was prisoner after therout at Uttoxeter, demanded his parole of honour not to go beyond the wall of Hull without liberty.
In this long battle, fought in the heat of a Spanish summer, almost six thousand officers and men fell on each side; but the rout of the enemy was complete, and the French army in the Peninsula had never experienced a more crushing defeat.
I have thought often of the lady in Comus, and how, through all the rout and rabble, she moves, entirely serene and pure.
Haply we had better stand close in this doorway, and let the rout go by.
If he could fall upon young Simon's army in this state of demoralization, and effectually rout it or cut it to pieces, why then he could give battle fearlessly to the Earl, with at least equal chances of success.
Old Lord Pam's toothless gums grinned appreciation of the jest as he tottered from the room to take a chair for a routat which he was due.
General Wall, the Mexican leader, thought to rout the Texans with his artillery fire, but, as he failed to do this, he made preparations to charge them.
Those who had been wounded were dropped at the beginning of the rout and were speedily dispatched by the tomahawks of the savages.
The Austrian and Russian emperors with their armies were sent flying in utter rout and panic from the field.
It was not until 1841, however, that this arm began to be supplied for Prussian troops, and it was twenty-five years after that date before the general adoption of this arm contributed to the rout of the Austrians at Sadowa.
The impact of the charge was utterly broken, and the Confederate line was blown into rout and ruin.
Finally they broke just to the left of the center, and a general forward movement on the Union side ended in the utter rout of the splendid and courageous Army of Tennessee.
Men were separated from their companies and for a time it seemed as if a rout were imminent.
A dramatic, though tragic, feature of the routwas the charge of the Eighth Pennsylvania cavalry, under Major Keenan, in the face of almost certain death, to save the artillery of the Third Corps from capture.
The death of Johnston, in the belief of many, changed the result at Shiloh and prevented the utter rout or capture of Grant's army.
They were to cross Bull Run by fords several miles below the Stone Bridge and attack the Northern troops on the weaker wing of the Union force in an effort to rout them before relief could be sent from the Federal right.
But in Longstreet's rout of the right wing Sheridan, with the rest, had been carried on toward Chattanooga, and he found himself completely cut off from Thomas, as the Confederates were moving parallel to him.
Thence his army retreated more badly beaten from a military standpoint than therout which fled the same field a year before.
If this elevation were once secured by the Confederates, all would be lost and rout would be inevitable.
On the 16th of December, General Thomas accomplished the defeat and utter rout of Hood's army at Nashville.
In a minute or two the gulls would settle down again to their meal, and again Oscar would charge and rout them.
The rout was complete and the Mexicans fled in every direction, among them their leader, Santa Anna.
The sound of firing grew louder and louder, and at length men fleeing in rout and confusion came in sight.
There was no thought now of anything but safety, and the march was almost a rout when at length the reinforcements from Boston appeared.
His last exclamation," said one who heard him, "was like the shout of the leader who turns back the rout of battle.
That the ensuing battle should be converted speedily into a rout was inevitable.
At length the Leaguers were seen to waver; some fled, others followed, and in an instant after, all was rout and confusion amongst the immense body of horse, which a few minutes before had moved up so gallantly to the assault.
Of the utter rout and ruin of these five kings and of some of their neighbours we have just been reading.
From the dust and crowding / could none in all the rout be free.
With their rout they started / a beast of savage kind, That was a bear untamed.
