Before leaving Spottsylvania, therefore, I sent back to the defences of Washington over one hundred pieces of artillery, with the horses and caissons.
His reinforcements were about equal to ours during the campaign, deducting the discharged men and those sent back.
Attaching great importance to the possession of Petersburg, I sent back to Bermuda Hundred and City Point, General Smith's command by water, via the White House, to reach there in advance of the Army of the Potomac.
And on some of them declaring they heard the sound of a harp from the inner shrine, he, whether he himself believed it, or was willing to try the effect of religious fear upon Sylla, sent back an express.
And on receiving leave to do as he liked, he sent back to Ptolemy Cilles and his friends, loaded with presents.
The relics, put into a silver urn, with a crown of gold to cover it, he sent back to his son.
But that army which Amasias had sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, spread themselves among the cities of Juda, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and having killed three thousand took away much spoil.
Kings Chapter 6 The ark is sent back to Bethsames: where many are slain for looking through curiosity into it.
Kings Chapter 29 David going with the Philistines is sent back by their princes.
Always he kept a wary look ahead for thickets through which he could not pass easily, and once he sent back a shout of defiance, which the Iroquois answered with a yell of anger.
But he sent back a shout of irony and triumph that made the chiefs and Tories standing on the bank bite their lips in anger.
He sent back no defiant cry, but, settling into determined silence, ran at his utmost speed.
So confident was he in his powers and the protecting darkness of the night that he sent back a sharp cry, piercing and defiant, a cry of a quality that could come only from a white throat.
I sent back a handsome fowling-piece, desiring the messenger to say that I would come ashore to visit the governor if a sufficient pledge were given for my safe return, and that my reasons for this caution could not be unknown.
I sent back an answer by a Turk that came in his company, but detained Wickam, lest they might have made him prisoner at Mokha, as I had embargoed the India ships.
The governor at length paid his own debt, and that of Callopas, and made all the rest pay, except Miriapeik and Datapa, who were in Golconda, on which I sent back my prisoner on the 30th of November.
After proceeding towards Vienna and being sent back to Brünn, Haugwitz arrived there on November 29th.
But at the close of August the French commander in Egypt, General Menou, was constrained to agree to the evacuation of Egypt by his troops, which were to be sent back to France on English vessels.
I have given orders that Miss Paterson is to be sent back to America.
As my principal design was to discover the English ones, & that my men had done nothing in it, I sent back 3 others of them to inform themselves of all that passed.
That is why I resolved to go there, & I expressed the same hope to the savage whom I sent back to give information to my father that the Governor would come with me to make some friendship to him & protect him in my absence.
And then I shall be sent back," I cried, as I tried to wrestle myself free.
Please, Mr Revitts, I have run away from Mr Blakeford, and if I am sent back to Rowford he'll kill me.
You'll have to be sent back to your sorrowing friends, my absconding young sloper.
This removal, in the case of paying pupils, will be dependent on the consent of the parents; failing which, they will be sent back home.
Pupils whose want of bodily qualification unfits them for the army will be sent back to their parents or guardians.
The students who pass this examination enter afterwards into the second cœtus; those who fail are, at the expiration of the practical course of their year, sent back to their corps.
So, he sent back word a second time that he really could not, let Columbus come in.
So he sent back word to Columbus that he was sorry, but that really he could not let him come in.
He sent back Law's carriage, however, the windows of which were smashed on the way by the stones thrown at them.
The courier he despatched with the news was immediately sent back, with a strong reprimand for not having deferred to the passport with which Law had been furnished by the Regent.
If it got to the ears of the governor he might find out what prison you escaped from and what you were in for, and if you were a political you would either be sent back there, or put with the politicals here, so keep it to yourself.
Samuel Adams offered a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, 'That the tea should be sent back to the place from whence it came, at all events, and that no duty should be paid on it.
The people have already struck off, by general agreement, the use of all goods fashionable in mournings, and many thousand pounds worth are sent backas unsaleable.
It soon appeared to be their general determination, that at all events the tea should be sent back to England in the same ships which brought it.
He will be sent back to Hamburg and how he will find his way home I do not know.
The Treasury authorities say that the mother may land but the children cannot, and they are to be sent back Thursday.
It was ordered that the mother might land, but that the children must be sent back in the ship upon which they arrived, on the following Thursday.
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