They had an extraordinary ability to drop out of sight, to draw a veil before them so completely that no Union scout or skirmisher could penetrate it.
A bullet fired by some retiring Southern skirmisher glanced along his head.
The skirmisher is the scout for Lupo and Morello who are, as usual, in the distance, their minds ablaze with the idea of getting rich beyond the dreams of Aladdin by a bold counterfeiting stroke.
During the day we followed the road, which led us nearly north, avoiding observation by frequently taking to the woods and by keeping a skirmisher well ahead to observe all curves in the road.
Our skirmisher could take that with him, and if he wants immadiate help one blow of it would be enough to bring the four of us over to him.
Sure, we shall wait outside this wall, and one of us can go in as a skirmisher and find out how the land lies.
He had seen the sudden uprising of the Northern skirmisher in the weeds and the flame from the muzzle.
There was not a single Northern skirmisherin the bushes.
If I had not been a skirmisher on that day, I would not have been writing this today, in the year of our Lord 1882.
I saw a Yankee skirmisherrun up and grab the horse and give a whoop as if he had captured a Rebel horse.
Your skirmisher companies at large intervals begin the fight, the killing.
The rôle of the skirmisher becomes preëminently the destructive role; it is forced on every organization seriously engaged by the greater moral pressure of to-day which causes men to scatter sooner.
For that matter, during the whole campaign, it seemed to me that the skirmisher school might never have existed.
The rôle of the skirmisher becomes more and more predominant.
The latter can start in skirmisher formation at a distance and close in while advancing, near its objective.
There should be smaller battalions, one-half the number in reserve, one-half as skirmisher battalions.
Again and again the pursuit of a skirmisher was driven back by these deadly riflemen.
I think the last skirmisher has escaped now," said Shif'less Sol, "but here we stay.
Another skirmisher burst through the bushes, and, helped in the same way, sprang into the Mississippi, swimming for the boats.
The skirmisheron the right and the skirmisher on the left both are gone.
If a hostile skirmisher did not find him, which was more than likely, he would have been overcome by the fever of his wound, and, lying unconscious while some rainstorm swept over him, his last chance would be gone.
And to that end," the lightskirmisher said, "he asks nothing but that we shall live a hundred and fifty years.
The light skirmisher made a desperate effort to retrieve himself: "Then a few more books like his would restore the age of faith.
Ah," the light skirmisher put in, "some of the scientific people dispose of that point very simply.
Sort of simian degenerate," the light skirmisher formulated the case.
Upon this invitation the light skirmisher tried to imagine some psychological experiments which should bear a certain analogy to those of the physicists, but he failed to keep the level of his suggestion.
I'm not so sure of that," a light skirmisherbroke his silence for the first time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skirmisher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
