Our greatest work in art has been achieved not so much by inspiration, subordinate to sentiments of exquisite good taste or guided by observance of classical models, as by audacious sallies of pure inventive power.
Receiving no like sallies he pushed his chair and sauntered forth, followed in a few discreet seconds by Minga.
Desperate are the sallies of the besieged; brave Precy, their National Colonel and Commandant, doing what is in man: desperate but ineffectual.
The enemy made several attempts to drive him away, repeating the sallies several times, and extending them into the night; but in every instance he was repulsed with bloody loss.
His little camp became a terror to the neighborhood, and checked the sallies of the Moorish mountaineers from the Sierra Morena.
He remained in Alcala with three hundred Moorish cavaliers, making frequent sallies upon the Christians, and effecting great slaughter.
King Fernando the Saint soon found his encampment on the banks of the Guadalquivir too much exposed to the sudden sallies and insults of the Moors.
His most gallant speeches were received with an air of frigid indifference--his wittiest sallies elicited only such smiles as courtesy could not refuse.
At first she peeps out, but seeing only a Christian has come in, she becomes more familiar, and at last sallies out boldly, and begins romping with the Kaed's Negro lad.
Keen sallies passed from one to another in loud tones, and caused hearty laughter, and stimulated the victim to sharpen his wits so as to reply with some other joke still more piquante.
Mendoza opened his eyes on hearing him, but being accustomed to these original sallies of his secretary, he instantly closed them again, and once more slumbered.
Cormac Condlongas sallies out, and his nine comrades with him, and they deliver their onsets on the reavers.
Then Conaire himself sallies out of the Hostel together with some of his people, and they fight a combat with the host of reavers, and six hundred fell by Conaire before he could get to his arms.
Sticking a flat loaf of black-bread and a dozen of these tiny shapes of salted nothing in his broad waistband, the Turkish peasant sallies forth contentedly to toil.
The sallies of the Jews being checked by such an array, the beasts of burthen belonging to the three legions, with the camp followers, passed on in safety.
The Sallies of Aristophanes do not come up to the case; And if they did, I have cut off the Succours from that Quarter already.
And when Sir Tun-belly had notice of this formidable Appearance, he Sallies out with the Posse of the Family, and marches against a Couple of Strangers with a Life Gaurd of Halberds, Sythes, and Pitchforks.
Do you believe that out of regard to scruples he should omit in his operations those portions of his subject which might offer corrupted minds occasions to draw sallies out of an ill regulated imagination?
The freedom of their conversation, the vivacity of their sallies of alleged wit, their giddy ways, all this affords you a situation that charms; a lively and silly joy seizes upon you, the hours you pass with them seem to be only moments.
He sallies forth 'with three thousand Leonese and more,' to protect the glory and freedom of his native land.
Ferdinand's utmost vigilance was required for the protection of his camp against the ambuscades and nocturnal sallies of his wily foe.
Sallies were also made at almost every hour of the day and night on every assailable point of the Christian lines, so that the camp was kept in perpetual alarm.
It is true, he is occasionally betrayed by verbal subtilties and other affectations of the age; [26] but even his liveliest salliesare apt to be seasoned with a moral, or sharpened by a satiric sentiment.
This laborious operation was intrusted to the commander of Leon, and the work was covered by a detachment of seven thousand troops, posted in such a manner as to check the sallies of the garrison.
The same dark spirit of fanaticism seems to brood over the national literature; even that lighter literature which in other nations is made up of the festive sallies of wit, or the tender expression of sentiment.
At no time did he discover that buoyancy of spirit, or was he betrayed into thosesallies of temper, which belong to a bold and adventurous, and often to a generous nature.
Their satirical sallies were levelled indifferently at the throne and the Church.
Make tea for yourself, brother Toby, said my father, taking down his hat--but how different from the sallies and agitations of voice and members which a common reader would imagine!
I was giddy with standing on the brink of bliss, and all my virtue and philosophy were scarce sufficient to restrain the inordinate sallies of desire.
And in reason we should rather follow them in this their ordinary course, than in their extraordinary sallies of practice.
He floundered aimlessly, striving by short sallies to recover the path from which the storm had taken him, but all to no purpose.
One of the first Vendean sallies of 1799, planned by Mme.
Her association with Nathan subserved, moreover, their mutual interests; the poet won respect for the actress, who knew moreover how to make herself formidable by her spirit of intrigue and the tartness of her sallies of wit.
He sallies forth to attack and plunder a merchant in the night.
He sallies forth, buys fruit and sweetmeats and good food with half his earnings, collects all the children of the alley in which Kuvalda's refuge is situated, and treats them down by the river with these delicacies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sallies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
