There was a raid—a heavy barrage and considerable gas—and it caught him while he was up with supplies for the men.
As the club increased in number so did our commissariat in supplies and importance, and the office of 'Old Beans' became no sinecure.
We were, meantime, drawing our supplies from White House, twenty miles in the rear; there were no railroad guards along the entire line, and about five companies protected the grand depot.
The railroad was opened to Despatch Station at the same time, but the right and centre were still compelled to "team" their supplies from White House.
On the approach of winter the males, having no further function to perform for the community, are refused food-supplies by the workers, and are either excluded or banished from the hive to perish.
Natural sources of water are also used for compressing and discharging air by letting the water under its natural pressure enter and leave closed vessels, so alternately discharging and drawing in new supplies of air.
The principal imports are food supplies and raw material such as cotton, wool, silk, flax, hemp and jute.
The death of an elephant is a grand affair for the natives, as it supplies flesh for an enormous number of people, also fat, which is the great desire of all savages for internal and external purposes.
Would a boat be waiting for us with supplies and letters?
I told him to send a large quantity of supplies into my camp, and to procure guides immediately, as I should send some of my men without delay to the enemy's camp with a message to the vakeel of Debono's party.
This morning all remaining men and baggage were brought across the river, and supplies were brought in large quantities for sale.
Salt was the natural product of the country; and the population were employed in its manufacture, which constituted the business of the lake shores--being exchanged for supplies from the interior.
Although I was willing to purchase all supplies with either beads or copper bracelets, I found it was impossible to procure meat.
The chief of Latooka would eat a handful of salt greedily that I gave him from my large supply, and I could purchase supplies with this article better than with beads.
From that day I received no suppliesfor myself or my people, as the king was affronted.
Nearly half the force had already started on the road to Almeida, and the supplies for their subsistence had been collected at that town.
No further supplies could be obtained in the country, and at any moment a gale might arise and scatter or destroy the fleet, from which alone they could draw supplies during their advance.
He gave Friere 5,000 muskets for his troops, but absolutely declined to adopt the proposed plan, his own intention being to keep near the coast, where he could receive his supplies from the ships and be joined by reinforcements.
Mine Host also sent a message, saying he would "send further suppliesevery opportunity, to keep things going until the waggons came through," and underlying his message we felt his kindly consideration.
With the supplies as low as they say they are, we’ll have to start for our base mighty soon or the north will do for us what it did for those two fellows at the end of the cave.
However, the policemen were in favor of returning with him immediately to the base of supplies where everything necessary for his complete recovery could be obtained.
We’ll all have to hunt, more or less, in the meantime, because we haven’t enough meat in our supplies to last.
We’d better establish a base of supplies here,” advised Constable Sloan.
The policemen soon had a sledge of supplies and one dog team ready for the trail.
Among many other things the boys learned that they were upward of forty miles from the base of supplies Toma had been left alone to guard.
Amongst the cases of increased calls for funds to maintain the machinery of state, the rise of prices, due to increased supplies of the precious metals, must be included as one of the chief, and its effect extends into the 17th century.
In the north of the field, where the limestone crops out and supplies the necessary flux, Merthyr Tydfil has become great through iron-smelting; and in the west Swansea is the chief centre in the world for copper and tin smelting.
The income-tax thus suppliesabout one-fifth of the total revenue, or one-fourth of that obtained by taxation.
Now, let us see how Paris or any other great town could be revictualled by home-grown produce, supplies of which could be readily and willingly sent in from the provinces.
A great central furnace supplies all houses and all rooms with hot water, which circulates in pipes; and to regulate the temperature you need only turn a tap.
But this great benefit will manifest itself by a steady and marked diminution of the food suppliespouring into the great cities of western Europe.
New trade routes and new means of transportation add to the supplies available in the older countries as effectively as if their areas were increased.
The supplies in Washington and Oregon are almost unavailable in the Eastern states on account of the cost of transportation.
Public industry expands to supply as free goods many essentials of good citizenship, and to insure cheaper and more bountiful supplies of others.
The nineteenth century saw a great increase in the food-supplies available for Europe.
Then gradually comes the industrial stage, in which control over nature grows, supplies increase, machinery and motive forces are utilized, and humanity is in the full tide of industrial development.
Supplies can be purchased more cheaply in large amounts, and shipments in car-load and train-load lots make possible special (sometimes illegal) concessions from railroads and from carriers on waterways.
Natural supplies of metals, of coal, and of timber are important consumption goods, but they are also indirectly the condition for a vast variety of other goods.
If any one of these supplies fails, the traveler suffers the pangs of hunger, and if two or three supplies are at one point, they do not serve the needs of man so well as if distributed along the way.
Supplies of copper, iron, and lead in favored positions are likewise limited, and are being rapidly centered in the hands of great companies.
We may liken man's life to a journey in which the supplies of food are gotten at the stations.
Not foreseeing the great supplies of natural resources soon to be made available for the older countries, the men of that day naturally thought of the supply of land as limited and fixed.
He has to see that all the supplies are obtained and forwarded to the right place.
Considering the immense supplies in the rear of the army, Stuart did very little harm; his eight hundred fresh horses were not worth the risk he ran.
Six cannon, a few old condemned muskets, and considerable suppliesof provisions were fortunately in the fort.
Northern States for the privilege of being united to them, when they could receive all their supplies through the ports of South Carolina, without paying a single cent for tribute?
If he could have seized our supplies at Monocacy Station, and burnt the bridge there, he would have inflicted a serious loss upon the army.
It is the custom to keep a certain quantity of provisions at these Agencies to feed them during these visits, and also to sometimes send them supplies during times of great want and scarcity of game in winter.
In affiliating the American with the Asiatic, the ethnologist is in the position of an irrigator, who supplies some wide tract of thirsty land with water derived from a higher level, but kept from the parts below by artificial embankments.
The Kaffre area is so large that it extends on both sides of Africa to the equator; and the contrast which it supplies when compared with the small one of the Hottentots is a repetition of the contrasts already noticed in America.
Not only men were going aboard, but suppliesof every sort; boxes of ammunition, stores, food.
And the busy artillerymen worked like laborers, too, clearing their guns after a salvo, loading them, bringing up fresh supplies of ammunition.
Folkestone had made me think of the mouth of a great funnel, into which all broad Britain had been pouring men and guns and all the manifold supplies and stores of modern war.
Being complementary means that each supplies what is wanting in the other, and that the two together thus make complete wholeness.
Substance supplies something from which selection can be made and to which Motion can be imparted; so that it is a sine qua non for the Expression of Spirit.
It may be added, by way of caution, that when a debater supplies any deficiencies in the speech of his predecessor, he should do this without any appearance of "smartness" or personal antagonism.
The argument from antecedent probability supplies this cause.
The Ladrone Islands were reached, and supplies of fresh vegetables, meats, and fruits were obtained.
There Orellana was to get food and supplies for the army and then return.
Even if Mélas[13] had possessed a year's supplies in Alessandria, he would none the less have been cut off from his base of the Mincio as soon as the victorious enemy occupied the line of the Po.
Navigable streams and canals, when parallel to the line of operations of the army, render the transportation of supplies much easier, and also free the roads from the incumbrances of the numerous vehicles otherwise necessary.
To enforce discipline, subsistence must be furnished, that the troops may not be obliged to straggle off for the purpose of getting supplies by marauding.
The inhabitants should also be required to furnish wagons to convey the supplies to the points occupied by the troops.
The English took possession of the harbor of Balaklava and the French of Kamiesch: these were the points to which subsequent reinforcements and suppliesfor the army in the Crimea were sent.
He said that in his first campaigns the enemy was so well provided that when his troops were in want of supplies he had only to fall upon the rear of the enemy to procure every thing in abundance.
But the hardships and dangers inseparable from that situation, were in some degree compensated by the singular felicity we enjoyed, of extracting inexhaustible supplies of fresh water from an ocean strewed with ice.
Leaving a portion of his followers to protect the intrenchment in Wessex, Hastings marched at the head of a powerful force into Mercia: for he found it difficult to secure supplies in a neighbourhood which was so narrowly watched by Alfred.
When did you call for supplies which I refused you?
I expostulated with the man, pointing out that, by the terms of his contract, he must go on, and that if he did not the soldiers for whom he was bringing supplies would die of starvation.
But it took some time to get the guns and food supplies to Robat, for Robat was quite one hundred miles from Nasaratabad.
It was now left in charge of five hundred of the British General's best troops, with ample supplies for a month.
No stone must be left unturned to save us from this pass, and I cast about for means of feeding the animals other than by these failing supplies from India.
I asked him to send to Robat as soon as possible all the foodsupplies he could collect, two mountain guns, a squadron of cavalry, and as many infantry as he could spare.
Our own food supplies were already running very short, yet I was obliged to promise the Raiders a fair and equal share of these.
It was also necessary to get in enough supplies for a month at least, as it was useless placing reliance on anything reaching us from India.
The camels used in the caravans bringing supplies from India found little or no grazing between marches, and died in their dozens on the way, the consequence being that but little of the supplies despatched from India ever reached us.
We had to make a double march, for our food supplies were almost exhausted, and it was obviously imperative to reach Kacha as soon as possible.
I instructed Idu to ward off the evil day as long as possible, but told him that, in the last extremity, our food supplies would, of course, be fairly and evenly shared with the Sarhadis.
Exploitation of offshore oil and gas reserves is playing an ever-increasing role in the energy supplies of Australia, NZ, China, US, and Peru.
Poor soils and inadequate water supplies hamper the development of agriculture.
It is by that trackless road, across the bottomless deep, that the whole world shakes hands with the new; and that the new supplies the old with so many conveniences and riches.
That variety yields at once a ravishing prospect to the eye, and, at the same time, supplies the divers wants of man.
Supplies for armies of then unheard-of size could not be carried in convoys, and the French soon became familiar with 'living on the country.
There lived a number of wise men in a warren of caves, going into the town for their simple supplies and imparting their knowledge by word of mouth to such as cared to come to them.
The courier from Valladolid to Lisbon was ordered to make a detour, so as to take Jarandilla in his route, and bring supplies to the royal table.
Xerxes found himself and his immense army cut off from supplies and his heart failed him.
