We do the cooking, and breakfast must be ready in half an hour, or the master will be storming at us.
We should lose a good many men in storming those two narrow staircases, Beorn.
Both were amply protected from storming by wide, deep moats always filled with water.
Sometimes it only needed for a ship or two to appear before a town and it would surrender, but generally an assault or the appearance of a storming party on land was necessary.
It had been agreed by General Scott and Commodore Perry that the storming party should consist of three columns, one of sailors and marines, one of the regulars, and one of volunteers.
In the trenches beyond, lay his brigade of volunteers ready to support the work in case of a sortie and storming by the Mexicans.
Amid the cheers of the men who brought them, Tatnall obeyed, though raging and storming with chagrin.
A great breach was made, about thirty-six feet wide, sufficient for a storming party to enter; while the thicker masonry of the forts was drilled like a colander.
They were the names by which he used to call my brothers, sir--the names of his two mates in the storming party.
The two Portuguese companies came forward with the ladders as the storming party moved up to the gateway.
But here he was, and actually keeping step with a storming party.
Momont, "and is that your idea of storming a town, to go into it feet uppermost?
A short time before the storming of the Tuilleries he had foreseen that the democratic party was prevailing, and he had joined it.
The storming of the Tuilleries, and the imprisonment of Louis, completely destroyed their body as a club; but the energy of each separate member was raised to the highest pitch.
They, unblinded by the rage of the pirates, saw the futility of storming that rocky wall with steel, and in the momentary hush and indecision they withdrew from the mob and stood apart, thinking over what was to come.
By this means they had ever been kept in subjection; and now the plan was to prove their undoing; for they could not reach their prey, whose cutlas points presented an insurmountable barrier to their storming the rock.
The insurgents had suffered most severely; and, from the difficulty which they had experienced in carrying the barricadoed positions without the precincts of the Castle, they could have but little hope of storming the place itself.
The oars were double-manned, but nothing would avail; and all the time the cry of the men on the wrecked vessel sounded through the storming of the gale.
But before the sail could be half lowered, a storminggust swept out of the bay, and struck the boat with a roar.
The only chance of getting forward was by forcing her way, and nine- tenths of the crowd were men--angry and storming men, whose wild and strange demeanor filled her with terror and disgust.
See French Revolution: Storming of the Bastille, page 212.
Several deputations arrived from the Hotel de Ville to offer terms of accommodation; but in the noise and fury of the moment they could not make themselves heard, and the storming continued as before.
Nothing," writes a young British officer, who was engaged in the melee, "could be more shocking than the carnage that followed the storming of this work.
The immediate progress of the struggle cannot be traced in any detail, but there is a general record of the storming of Roman camps and the flight of Roman generals.
It was still dark and storming furiously when the bugles of the battery sounded the reveille, and by the light of the swinging lanterns the men marched away in their canvas stable rig, looking like a column of ghosts.
You are to go with the storming party, not to lead it, you understand, and are to interview any prisoners who may happen to be taken.
As a reward for your conduct in the storming of the breach you were to be given opportunities of accompanying outposts and advance parties.
I'll see one of the staff and ask him to manufacture some orders for you, for you can't accompany the storming party unless there is good excuse.
Only those who have experienced the feeling can know what it is to be one of a storming party, or the curious sensations with which men are filled.
Then he fell in in rear of the storming party, and sat down beside the officers while the guns thundered against the wall.
The movements of this part of our army resulted on the 14th of September in the storming of the fort of Barahuttee, one mile from Cuttack, and in the conquest of the province--another strong inducement to Scindia to lay down his arms.
On the 13th the sounds came nearer--he was slowly, but steadily, cutting his way through, storming one stronghold after another.
Almost before you could think, this monster of light, fifty feet long, would go flaming and storming by, and suddenly disappear.
The arrest enraged the Rajah's people, and all Benares came storming about the place and threatening vengeance.
The storming party crossed the swale and began to creep up the steeps, "and from behind rocks and bushes they shot at the soldiers on the skyline as if they were stalking deer," says Mr. Russell.
But so fierce was the opposition of the garrison at the barricades, that Rupert recalled his storming party, and fired on the breach, until the enemy at last hoisted the white flag.
Harassed by continual appeals for his presence elsewhere, Rupert made an effort to hasten matters by storming the town.
The storming party was composed mostly of foreigners, and numbered some 300 all told.
When the storming party had reached the fort, they broke up into three.
For three and a half hours the operations lasted, the men closing gradually in, and finally surrounding the kopje and storming it.
He had been very forward during the storming of the Asmai heights, and now when the enemy were crowding up the western slopes, he remained with a few men on the ridge until the Afghans were within thirty yards of them.
At the head of the small storming party charged a duffadar[1] of the Guides' cavalry, by name Fatteh Khan.
It was at this time that the first signs of fire were noticed, whether intentionally ignited by the storming party, or accidental, is not clear, though later conflagrations were undoubtedly intentional.
During the Mutiny he did excellent service, making the famous march to Delhi with the Guides, and serving with them throughout the siege and storming of that place.
At six o'clock in the morning the long infantry lines rose in theirstorming positions and advanced to the attack.
At seven the hostile position was considered ripe for storming and the infantry attack ordered.
Some Austro-Hungarians, operating closely with the Germans west of Grabovetz, took an important enemy point of support afterstorming it several times, and pressed forward into the enemy's main position.
In the Southeastern Theatre: After storming the heights southeast of Bu-Kaszowice, north of Halicz, the Russians along the whole front from the district of Maryampol to just north of Firjilow have been obliged to retreat.
Entered the army; served in Upper Canada in command of the 19th Light Dragoons; present at the battle of Lundy's Lane and at the storming of Fort Erie; knighted for distinguished services.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "storming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
