This was done so that all the army might be under arms to salute their chief as he passed.
On one occasion General Worth had the troops in line, under arms, all day, with three days' cooked rations in their haversacks.
Under arms, dismounted, white gloves and the garrison belt (or russet-leather belt and cartridge box) are worn.
They will fall in with the guard, under arms, at guard mounting.
Far away above us, on those dark heights, the whole army will be under arms in ten minutes.
After this some Aenianians (2) and Magnesians got up and fell to dancing the Carpaea, as it is called, under arms.
Further, let us get rid of all superfluous baggage, save only what we require for the sake of war, or meat and drink, so that as many of us as possible may be under arms, and as few as possible doing porterage.
He ordered the first and second lines to be under arms; the third to fortify the camp.
The first and second lines continued under arms as was from the first appointed.
The rest he kept on guard, under arms, waiting for the main body of the infantry, which had marched with less expedition, on account of the weight of their armour.
This roll call is under arms and is supervised by an officer of the company.
Under arms, white gloves and the garrison belt (or russet-leather belt and cartridge box) are worn.
I have two hundred and fifty Canadians under arms.
General Greene immediately ordered the garrison under arms, sent out troops to hold the enemy in check, and sent off an express to Washington, at Hackensack.
Some of the young men of the place insulted the military while under arms; the latter resented it; the young men, after a scuffle, were put to flight, and pursued.
Officers were ordered to their alarm posts, and the troops to be ready, under arms, to act as occasion might require.
He then allowed them to fall out of their ranks; knowing that in less than a minute from the call being sounded they would be under arms again, and in readiness to move in any direction required.
I hope you will stop for a time and take supper with me and, in the meantime, I will send down orders for my men to be under arms, here, at half-past three.
In camp retreat formation should always be under arms, an officer being present with each company and inspecting the arms.
To arms:= The signal for the men to fall in, under arms, on their company's parade grounds as quickly as possible.
The 7th found the British, as usual, under arms at dawn, but the day passed as quietly as the preceding one had done.
Late in the evening of the 13th of August orders were given for the troops to be under arms by three in the morning.
Large reserves of infantry were drawn up near the north forts, and the corps over Inkerman were under arms.
Perrot, the local governor, was on the shore with his soldiers and the inhabitants, drawn up under arms, and firing a salute, to welcome the representative of the king.
The adventurers landed in state, and marched, under arms, to the bark chapel of the Ottawa village, where they heard mass.
At daybreak of the next morning, the thirteenth of July, the drums beat, and the whole party were drawn up under arms.
A double row of soldiers lined the road; more than forty thousand men were under arms.
The national guard were distributed in posts; Paris seemed changed into an immense foundry and a vast camp, and the whole night was spent under arms, expecting the conflict.
That accounts for it," he said, "we are all ordered to be under arms at eight o'clock this evening.
We are to be under arms at daybreak, and as you will be at the ambulance for the next twenty-four hours I thought I would make an effort to catch you on the way.
We are fighting as volunteers and not because the law calls us under arms.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "under arms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
