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Example sentences for "stout resistance"

  • The French still offered a stout resistance in its interior, but finally retired on Troyes, leaving 600 dead and wounded.

  • The Bavarian Corps, which had also met with a stout resistance at Saran, pushed forward to Bel Air, but with great loss, especially in the artillery.

  • Meanwhile, after a stout resistance, the advanced posts of the Bavarians had been driven in by the enemy's superior strength.

  • Before the fleet separated, they met with a great ship of Biscay on the coast of Spain, called the Santa Clara of 600 tons, which was taken after a stout resistance.

  • The Catholics will show no mercy to any of the faith they may find; while as to the chateau, it can make a stout resistance, and you may be sure that it will not be long before help arrives, from Niort or La Rochelle.

  • We may, of course, expect to meet with a stout resistance but, with the advantage of a surprise, and with so many gallant gentlemen with me, I have no shadow of fear as to the result.

  • They are not likely to disturb us, but if they do, we can make a stout resistance here.

  • They had thrown up breastworks of rails and logs, and made preparations for a stout resistance.

  • Lee's army was getting into position, his various corps concentrating and intrenching, and making every preparation for a new base and a stout resistance.

  • The governor of Yenking offered a stout resistance to the Mongols, and when he found that he could not hold out, he retired to the temple of the city and poisoned himself.

  • Notwithstanding this the place offered a stout resistance, but the Mongols gained a decisive success over a body of troops sent to its relief.

  • The governor, Wangkien, offered a stout resistance, and Luwenti succeeded in harassing the besiegers; but the fall of the fortress appeared assured, when a new and more formidable defender arrived in the form of dysentery.


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