When that perfect flood of mighty weapons was set in motion by Jishnu, many bulls among warriors sank in that frightful and unfordable flood.
Every veteran from Cæsar's day on the Rhine to Grant's and Lee's on the Potomac knows what it means to force a crossing of an unfordable stream under fire.
Their maneuvers were further hampered by the bends of an unfordable river, which a direct attack for any great depth would have to cross and recross under the interlocking fire.
Though the Meuse was an unfordable stream, and we held the bridgeheads to prevent any infantry counter-attack, this could not prevent cross-fire upon us from artillery and even from machine-guns.
On the way across the bay, either to Cornay or to the bluffs, any charge must cross the Boulasson creek, which was unfordable at points.
After going four miles they reached the bank of an unfordable river, some forty yards wide.
The low-lying land is turned into deep swamps, the little streams become great unfordable torrents, and the ground under our feet turns into liquid mud.
Chakdara holds the passage of the Swat River--a rapid, broad, and at most seasons of the year an unfordable torrent.
On the left of the troops was an unfordable river.
Everything being now ready for our departure, my guide informed me that in a few days a canoe would be absolutely necessary, to enable us to cross some unfordable rivers which we should meet, and could not avoid.
If he returned by the road he had come, it was probable he would be cut off, for the enemy was thoroughly roused, and the South Anna River, unfordable from recent rains, rendered a detour to the north impracticable.
Protected by the Rapidan, a stream unfordable in spring, he was well placed to meet a Federal advance, and also, by a rapid march, to anticipate any force which might be transported by water and landed close to Richmond.
It was defended in front by Mill Creek, swollen by the snows to a turbulent andunfordable river; and by the North Fork of the Shenandoah.
There could be little need for Confederate fortifications upon the other side of this unfordable stream.
The allied force of British and Indians, had they made a stand upon it, would have been protected in front by a deep unfordable stream, while their right flank would have been covered by the Thames, and their left by a swamp.
Since the river is unfordable he'll have plenty of time to attack us there," said Longstreet.
They might be hemmed in, with their backs to an unfordable river, and an enemy two or three times as numerous in front.
Its waters must have been singularly shrunken when Xenophon forded it at Thapsacus, a hundred miles lower down, and found it no more than breast deep; for here it is quite unfordable and can only be crossed by ferries.
The approaches on two sides are barred by the rivers, unfordable and icy cold in winter; and on the third side rise precipitous mountains, barely climbable even by day.
Sometimes it is a bad bit of road which can only be traversed in broad daylight; sometimes a river which may suddenly be rendered unfordable by the intervention of an unforeseen spate.
We now followed the right bank of the Shung-chu, a great glacial torrent, which joined by several others became an unfordable stream.
Presently I came to an unfordable stream, and after making several attempts to get across this, found myself compelled to return several miles down the valley to the monastery of Choebu, where there was a slender footbridge.
Down this flowed a very large and unfordable glacial stream.
We, on our side, could do nothing, for an unfordable river flowed between us and the escaping mutineers.
The abrupt nature of its banks, and an evidently unpleasant habit of becoming unfordable after a rain, tell the story of the abandoned trail I have been following.
The gray swims the unfordable middle portion nobly, and the khan comes through with no worse damage than a mouthful or two of muddy water.
You remember the unfordable pond that came in one of my courses yesterday?
He put this upon me, to see how I'd get over an obstacle like an unfordable pond.
I knew that the Orange and the Caledon Rivers sometimes remained unfordablefor weeks together.
Burnside himself proposed to take up the pontoon bridge at Loudon, and move it to Knoxville, for both the Holston and the Little Tennessee were now unfordable and would protect his flank against small expeditions of the enemy.
The downpour of rain had been such that the creek, which was insignificant when we first came to it, became unfordable before sunset, and gave me no little concern for the first line of my division, which was over it.
Seven armed Abipones showed themselves on the border of a certain wood, defended by an unfordable river, and in mockery, challenged the Spaniards who passed by to fight.
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