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Example sentences for "sally forth"

  • Comrades, do ye long as I do to show the world that though we have not yet won our knighthood's spurs, we are yet ready and willing to sally forth, even as did the knights of old, upon some quest of peril or adventure?

  • Raymond, thou and I have longed this many a day to sally forth to fight for the Holy Sepulchre against the Saracens; yet have we not a crusade here at home that calls us yet more nearly?

  • When the troops were marshaled for the field, Don Roderick prepared to sally forth in the state and pomp with which the Gothic kings were wont to go to battle.

  • While Muza was forming his encampment, deserters from the city brought him word that a chosen band intended to sally forth at midnight and surprise his camp.

  • I propose to abandon Atlanta, and the railroad back to Chattanooga, to sally forth to ruin Georgia and bring up on the seashore.

  • The rebel inner lines are well adapted to our purpose, and with slight modifications can be held by a comparatively small force; and in about ten days I expect to be ready to sally forth again.

  • It was not yet day-light when I was awakened by hearing a noise in the room; and on inquiry, I found that it was George, about to sally forth, as he had intimated to me on the preceding night.

  • When the count de Cabra had heard this account of the situation of affairs, he turned to his nephew with his usual alacrity of manner, and proposed that they should immediately sally forth in quest of the enemy.

  • Pedro de Vargas was too severely wounded to sally forth in person, but he ordered out his troops, and there was brisk skirmishing under the walls, until the king drew off and returned to the scene of the recent encounter.

  • If the alcayde attempted to sally forth, they were to waylay and attack him, being almost four times his supposed force, and were to send swift tidings to the camp.

  • There is not one of us but has an Emin somewhere or other in the heart of Darkest England, whom he ought to sally forth to rescue.

  • This is Em," says Mrs. Ballington Booth, and after this introduction we sally forth.

  • It is nearly eight o'clock when we sally forth.

  • Illustration: Joan challenges the English to sally forth] Here we get the best account of what happened from Perceval de Cagny, a knight in the household of the Duc d'Alençon.

  • Come out they would not, so Joan rode up to their fortification, standard in hand, struck the palisade, and challenged them to sally forth.


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