The retire was now sounded, and the stormers fell back to cover.
The advance was sounded and the stormerspushed on steadily to the city ditch, but were there thrown into confusion by some defect in the bridges.
A few crossed the moat by their bridges, only however to be shot down, and the whole division of stormers wavered and hesitated on the brink.
At length the stormers were driven from the ground they had gained, and hurled to the bottom of the breach.
When the artillery ceased its fire as the stormers mounted the breach, these men made a desperate defence, while the rest of the garrison, emerging from their places of concealment, rushed to man the walls and assist them.
When the stormers mounted the wall a fearful sight was before them.
Despite its chaotic state, Flavian clung to the ruin, and held the stormers at bay.
The storm deadened soul and body, yet kept Flavian vigilant with its boisterous laughter, a sound that might stifle the tramp of stormers pouring to the breach.
The stormers came climbing blindly up the pile of wreckage in serried masses.
The stormers pushed up and up, to break and deliquesce before those terrible swords.
Feet stumbled on the debris at the base of the breach; stormers were on the threshold of Gambrevault.
The stormers revolted from the shambles; they had fought their fill; had done enough for honour; were sick and weary.
That thousand on the road was hungering to be no whit behind the others, and with a wild cheer the stormers made for the gate.
At the signal of the dean's bell the stormerswill move forward.
Bayonets flashed through the smoke, and a gallant rush placed the stormers on the embankment.
Many of the stormers had dispersed in search of plunder, and regiments and brigades had become hopelessly intermingled in the assault of the rocky hill.
The stormers had retreated, The bloody work was o'er; The feet of the invaders Were soon to leave our shore.
The smooth hill is bare, and the cannons are planted, Like Gorgon fates shading its terrible brow; The word has been passed that the stormers are wanted, And Burnside's battalions are mustering now.
The Turks, however, avoided a decisive encounter, and the stormers stood ready in the trenches before Silistria, when the siege was suddenly raised.
Nor, divided by the river, did the artillery and the stormers work upon a mutual understanding.
But the actual gap appeared to be undefended, and, better still, the rubbish on the near side had so piled itself that for half the way up the stormers could climb under cover, protected from the enfilading fire.
If your Highness will send for the stormers I will lead them at once, if they will follow me.
But still none of the stormers turned; on the contrary, thousands of men charged down the counterscarp, to be met with the same volleys from the great guns, which proved so deadly and so effective.
Crowds of stormers were circling around it convulsively, not being able to enter and perishing for nothing in a cross tire; for bullets were rained on them from the Cracow gate as thickly as sand.
At that moment the entrance bursts, a line of stormersrush in like an avalanche of Satans, and a slaughter follows.
Three hearty, animating cheers—so loud and clear that they were heard throughout the general camp[338]—announced to their excited comrades below that Dennie and his stormers had entered Ghuznee.
The stormers had to grope their way between the yet standing walls in a dusk which the glimmer of the blue light only made more perplexing.
At last one of the battalions forming the reserve stormers came up, eager for the fray.
Right at the heels of the stormers the regimental stretcher-bearers had gone over the top, defenceless, and, as such, running even more risks than the infantry.
Consequently, instead of waiting, as had been the plan, until the 24-pounders had perceptibly shaken the mill, the stormers advanced and masked those guns when some ten rounds had been fired.
The brave fellows served in the batteries during the remainder of the siege; and, at the time of the assault, were sent in with the stormers to turn the guns captured in the bastions upon the enemy.
Three hearty, animating cheers, so loud and clear that they were heard throughout the general camp, announced to their excited comrades below that Dennie and his stormers had entered Ghuznee.
It was Willshire's hope that the enemy might be driven down to the gate of the fortress, and that the stormers might rush in with them.
The movement of thestormers was the signal for the whole line.
The stormers rested and waited for the word in the point of the wood on the left of the Plains Store road, nearly opposite the position of battery 13.
Our stormers had carried it and swept the defenders back into the true breach beside the tower.
The pressure eased, and an explosion threw a dozen of us to earth between the fausse braye and the slope of rubble by which the stormers had climbed.
As soon as the French flag was seen upon the Malakoff, our stormers sprang forward, led by Col.
The ladders were overthrown, the French shouted "Victory," the stormers were baffled, but not defeated.
After our stormers had entered the Redan the enemy came at us in swarms, but were kept back by the bayonet.
The first Crimean Infantry regiment that had the honour of grappling with the murderers was one of the noble regiments that had led the stormers at Sebastopol (the 90th).
The fiercest efforts of their stormers were unavailing.
The stormers made their way over the house roofs and through excavations in the adobe walls, and in four days' time were in possession of the town which the Mexicans had confidently counted upon stopping their march.
The word goes forth and forth the stormers go, Each column like a mighty shaft shot from a mighty bow.
The stormers form, in silence, stern and grim, Each heart full-beating out the time to Freedom's battle hymn.
These pits were dug so close together that, of a party of stormers rushing up the slope, a large proportion must inevitably fall in, or be unwittingly pushed in by their comrades.
And, lastly, at the foot of the hill there was a great maze of strongly constructed wire entanglements, during the slow passage of which the hapless stormers would be exposed to a withering rifle and shell fire.
In accordance with Oku's plan, the main body of the stormers followed closely upon the heels of the volunteer wire-cutters.
Popai was unable to resist this form of attack, and when the Chinese stormers made their way through the breach thus caused, he attempted to commit suicide by setting fire to his residence.
A breach of fourteen feet having been made, the order to assault was given, but the stormerswere repulsed with the loss of 100 killed.
The attack was momentarily checked; but while the stormers remained under such cover as they could find, the shells of two howitzers were playing over their heads and causing frightful havoc among the Taepings in the breach.
When the enemy broke into the city, and he heard the stormers at the gate of his palace, he retired to an upper chamber and set fire to the building.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stormers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
