In the war of posts, of desultory skirmishes, and of raids into the farming country, to which the struggle at the South was reduced, there was indeed little opportunity for Thompson to win laurels.
Another American writer says, "To candid men, the letters he wrote in those days of struggle ought to have interest, as well as the declarations of those who have portrayed him as the disgraced minion of a tyrant.
The feeling of jealousy and anger, which was born in the throes of the struggle for independence, we indiscriminately perpetuated by false and superficial school text-books.
The struggle was carried on without intermission, but towards the end of April, Boston was delighted by the news of the repeal of the Stamp Act.
I view the dangerous and doubtfulstruggle with fear and trembling; I lament it with the most cordial affection for my native country, and feel sensibly for my friends.
The struggle had fretted him likewise; if she was mad he was maddened.
Out of the hot and desperate struggle for breath, sounds came from her, but no words.
Historians, however, will probably call this sanguinary struggle the Battle of Suvla Bay.
It was a bitter struggle and Abdul set fire to the overhead cover in the hope of driving back the Seventh.
This charge was only one little episode in the long, long struggle of those early days of August.
One after another the horses were saddled up, and while the regiment cheered itself hoarse, there was enacted again and again the old-time struggle for mastery.
There was a grim laugh, and then the yellow beam of light which had been withdrawn while the struggle proceeded, flung out its level rays again and illuminated the boat.
His eyes glared out of the struggle at Miller in a very fury of amazement.
From the shore came the sound of a struggle and then Muhammed's voice, shrill in explanation.
In Lord George Bentinck, under the guise of a record of the struggle between Protection and Free Trade, we have a manual of personal conduct as applied to practical politics.
He was directed to sit in the shade and watch the work which he did in a rather shamefaced way although he had endured the struggle against exhaustion pluckily enough while his strength held out.
A sudden wind storm would mean that the Golden Eagle would have to make such a struggle for life as she never had before.
It was not Frank’s nature to give anything up without a struggle to solve it, however, and he suggested one more try.
Some time before the attack, the women had taken the precaution to put out the fire lest in the struggle somebody should fall in and get burned.
So such a sharp struggle went on within him, all the more because he was ashamed of his weakness and tried to hide his confusion from little Marie, that the sweat started out on his forehead, and his eyes grew red and almost ready to weep.
The clicking of the bones became louder, the struggle fiercer, the knives of the skeleton combatants rose and fell.
It reminded him of the automatic pistol which he still had in his pocket--the gun he had not thought to use in his desperate struggle with the Bar Senestro.
But he had seventeen sons, and those who knew the customs of Mohammedan countries foresaw that, on his death, these must infallibly commence a fratricidal struggle for the throne.
The position was, however, too doubtful and complicated for him to insist on this; a short struggle convinced his consummate prudence that it was wisdom to yield, and Isabella's wifely tact facilitated submission.
The idea was a fruitful one and speedily came to be recognized as a potent instrumentality in the struggle with local disorder and violence.
There seems to have been a prolonged struggle with a successful result for, on November 17th, it issued a circular enclosing a royal order which conceded exemption.
In the adventurous career of the Cid, Christians and Moslems are seen mingled in both contending armies, and it is for the most part impossible to detect in the struggle any interest either of race or religion.
In this spirit of undisguised hostility both sides were aligned for a decisive struggle in the Córtes of 1599, under the new royalty of the youthful Philip III.
A decisive struggle came in 1640, in which the Suprema chose its ground discreetly.
They gave their lives in testimony to the rights of mankind, bequeathing to their country an assurance of success in the mighty struggle which they began.
The history of their long and secretstruggle against this growing passion, complicated by outside incidents and intrigues, forms the bulk of the volume.
He had the usual painful struggle to become a successful journalist, detailed in 'When a Man's Single'; but his real work was other and greater.
The history of municipal London is a history of continual struggle to maintain this freedom against all attacks, and to extend it and to make it impregnable.
It is the human struggle which we watch upon the Cross: the human victory there won which we acclaim with endless joy and exultation.
Our progress as successful competitors in the struggle for animal existence, has been the waxing stronger of the old man day by day.
These self-regarding impulses of the animal nature are due to the fact, that that nature is the result of the age-long struggle for existence.
I watched my opportunity, picked a quarrel with him:--he attacked me with his usual violence, and after a short struggle I slew him on the deck.
You can only be slaughtered, without conferring the slightest assistance, for see, the unequal struggle is over.
D D Doubtless all of us are more or less familiar with the prison ship chapter of Revolutionary history, as this is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, tragedies of the struggle for independence.
If, as seems undoubtedly true, more men perished in prison than on the battle fields of the Revolution, it is difficult to see why so little is made of this fact in the many histories of that struggle that have been written.
When water in any degree fit for use was brought on board, it is impossible to describe the struggle which ensued, in consequence of our haste and exertions to procure a draught of it.
A gentleman, confined with him in the Old Sugar House, used to tell his descendants that the most terrible fight he ever engaged in was a struggle with a comrade in prison for the carcass of a decayed rat.
So great was the struggle around the cask that the guards were again turned out to disperse the crowd.
He begins by saying: "I was but in my seventeenth year when thestruggle commenced.
She had changed in the past six months of struggle with poverty and work beyond her strength.
Whatever the struggle has been made for, if it has been sufficiently brave and persistent, the reward is sure.
He would simply have surrendered and commenced his practice of medicine in Woodford without being properly equipped for perhaps the greatest of all the professions--the struggle to conquer disease.
Since then their struggle had been a hard one; both ends would not meet, no matter how firmly Digby persevered in his efforts to bring about such a union.
No struggle of his failed but that she shouldered and bore the failure with him, cheering him when he felt like lagging, smiling when he despaired the deepest.
We already know that Mrs. Corky Van Winkle longed for a seat among the lofty, and that Mrs. Bleecker Van Winkle had married at least two gentlemen of Gotham in the struggle to feel at home there.
Now doubtless there has always been a struggle between employers and employed, and this struggle will probably continue until the relations between the two are more humane and Christian.
Against such a theocratic republic war must come sooner or later, and in 1617 thestruggle began.
But Slavery exhibits this struggle in its earliest and most savage stage, a stage answering to the rude energies and still ruder conceptions of barbarians.
One of the authors has suffered from sharing a garden with a Hop enthusiast, and she well remembers the struggle she had to rescue her Roses, Hollyhocks, and Delphiniums from the Hop’s embraces and from the green fly it encouraged.
We once saw an amusing picture in a gardening book of how not to tie up a plant, and many a time have we remembered it after a hot and weary struggle with our own.
You must understand that we are only giving you a few names in each class, in case you are left to struggle unassisted with a catalogue containing hundreds of names.
We once watched someone struggle with a loosely built granite wall that tilted a little towards him, and which had no soil in its crevices.
If you have a struggle with weeds in your garden, we advise you to sow all seeds that will bear transplantation in boxes or pans, as you can dodge the weeds better in this way.
At that moment, the sound of a struggle hurried Juve to the entrance of the station.
A man has set himself to run me down, has determined my ruin: between us it is a struggle without quarter; my life is not safe but at the cost of his, so he must perish.
Then, turning to Dixon, he resumed: "How did your struggle with the mysterious pressure end?
Once more there welled up in Reuben's heart a feeling of pity for the animal which had made such a desperate struggle for freedom.
After a struggle of a few minutes the attempt was abandoned, and for a time it seemed as if the black horse, his spirits drooping and his whole bearing dejected, had at last decided to yield to his fate.
It was really painful to witness his struggle towards composure.
Pompadour, when the French colonies were making their greatstruggle to retain for an ungrateful court the fairest jewels in the colonial diadem of France.
I have frequently witnessed the cruelty with which parents will sometimes amuse their children, by catching young birds or animals, that they may disjoint their limbs to make them struggle in a lingering death.
Shall I recall the fact that in his victorious struggle against Voltaire, Lessing had to call in Diderot's assistance?
Pansa; even her experienced stoicism giving way at the struggle about to take place.
The three friends sought the bield of the low wall old Edinburgh boys remember well, and sometimes miss now, as they struggle with the stout west wind.
The incalculable services of Sir William Wallace, through nearly ten years of incomparably heroic struggle against the great Edward in his full vigour, are too often forgotten, or belittled.
Leaving the local struggle to lieutenants, Bruce hastened to Bishop Wishart in Glasgow.
Together they outline, from the standpoint of the leading spirits, the prolonged and successful struggle of the Scots against the unprovoked aggression of Edward I.
The prolonged and doubtfulstruggle naturally wearied out the patience of the non-combatants behind Gillies Hill.
The mere fact that he was totally unprepared for a struggle with Edward tells almost conclusively against the theory of premeditation--unless there was a very clearly compromising bond with Comyn, which is wholly improbable.
