If the charges so vehemently urged had been preferred or even suggested in Lee's lifetime, Longstreet does not believe they would have needed any reply from him.
General Halleck urged his views upon General Grant, and despatched General Foster that it was of first importance to "drive Longstreet out of Tennessee and keep him out.
And his acceptance, urged as he was to accept by his Confederate comrades, was, under the circumstances, very human and very natural.
I urged that we should move around by our right to the left of Meade and put our army between him and Washington, threatening his left and rear, and thus force him to attack us in such position as we might select.
His nurse, who had attended on him from his cradle until after his accession, and who subsequently became the chief of his harem, urged upon him that the time had arrived when he should take the administration into his own hands.
He urged a prompt march across the Sutlej, a junction with Tardi Beg in Sirhind, and an immediate attempt thence against Hemu.
With one exception they all urged him to fall back on Kabul.
She knew the importance of a high general average of play, and urged on several laggers.
Her natural straightforwardness urged her to make a clean breast of the whole affair.
She urged her team to make heroic efforts, and got all the practice in that was available.
There was a sound of baa-ing, and round a corner ran a flock of sheep, urged on by a boy and a collie dog.
It would just make all the difference to the practices to have a roller at work, even once a week," urged Olave Parry.
Though the chief had indeed at the moment no inclination to swim, he could not refuse a prayer urged in this manner.
Then great fear fell on Grania; but, seeing Dermat gloomy and downcast, she urged the point no further.
But Fatha told him that there was food and drink enough at the other side of the ford, which Midac had brought from the palace, and urged him to bring a good meal of this to Conan.
But Fergus urged that she belonged to him by right, as it was in his net she was taken.
Then he mused again, and after a time, said, "I am strongly urgedto kill these men!
In 1772, during a famine which happened throughout all Germany, a herdsman was taken on the manor of Baron Boineburg, in Hessia, who had been urged by hunger to kill and devour a boy, and afterwards to make a practice of it for several months.
Her parents, from whom she had eloped to Otaheite with a favoured lover some years ago, were still alive, and the force of affection urged her irresistibly to visit them.
It is not William's policy to provoke the Saxons, and to his own countrymen he is ever complacent,' urged De Gourin, with the same eagerness.
Though I urged you to accompany me, when I returned and realized the awful state of affairs here, I was heartily glad you had not yielded to my wishes.
Oh, Luxembourg must have been stricken mad to have urged them to go thither!
As he made his way toward the shore, intending to remove his skates and find Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Morris, d'Azay and Beaufort came up and urged upon him to join them.
I doubt if even Danton, urged on by me, could obtain a passport for him to quit the city.
I have great hopes of you as a financier, Ned, since that affair of the Holland loans, and as for myself, Luxembourg has urged me seriously to enter the ministry.
I could find it in my heart to wish that Congress had never urged upon me this mission abroad.
She turned back, urged on by the love within her, and glided in.
Dick looked very earnestly at his little friend, and urged her to tell him the worst at once.
But the longing so overpowered her that she consulted Miss Nipper as to the possibility of gratifying it, and that young woman, eager herself for an expedition, urged Polly to visit her home.
He wrote at once and urged her to come as soon as she could, and, receiving no reply to this, fell to calling on the Major, hoping thus to hear something definite.
But this, it may be said, is the plea urged by a certain school of modern Realism in Art.
Probably here the plea will be urged that we cannot help our temper, and it may be said, the suffering which it brings upon us is the best proof that it is an infirmity rather than a vice.
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But with regard to the first of the two temptations, it may be urged that in our settled and ordered society it is no longer felt.
That there is much truth in this view we may easily satisfy ourselves by considering the wealthy classes in England, whose question, urged through all their pomp and ceremonial of heartless worship, is practically, "Who is the Lord?
But our constitution is no excuse for sin; the most that can be urged is that if we are constitutionally inclined to any particular sin we must seek for a special strength to fortify us against it.
Tell her about the time Blacky-ears was lost, Mumsie," urged Little-wee Pig.
A sense of power so pervaded even the air he breathed, that strong men rebelled instinctively, though he urged no supremacy; weak men caught some infection from him, and went home and astonished their families.
He had lately been told, as a mighty secret, something which grieved and angered him; and the more, that he must not speak of it, as his straightforward nature urged him.
Some of the strongest objections to this Report are very fairlyurged in a letter which appeared in the Builder of the 15th of June, a part of which is subjoined:-- "Part II.
Carrington very strongly urged his removing into the country; he went so far as to say that it was his only chance for life--and in that I think he went too far again.
I shall still get much better preferment in teaching than that which I now hold," he urged aloud to the rector.
But it will be impossible," urged Mr. Halliburton.
Frank wished to take larger chambers where she would find sufficient accommodation; he urged a hundred reasons; his grievances with his laundress, and his buttonless shirts.
The girl urged her horse into a gallop, and Lowell rode silently at her side.
Helen urged him to his task, knowing the folly of attempting to thwart the wishes of her captors.
His firm will urged them in, And she and Rachel all at once were riding With easy bowling motion down Broadway.
As she urged it, I sent word to the bishop, and he came, And she was formally confirmed, and taken Unto the bosom of the Church, and there May her poor toiling spirit find repose!
How long I stayed, Urged by dear friends and the restoring breeze, Let me not say; long enough to complete My rhythmic structure; day by day it grew, And all sweet influences helped its growth.
True, a false sense of duty urged you on, And you were wrongly influenced--no matter!
Tell me exactly what has happened," urged the officer.
With his pistol in his hand, Joey gently urged Roy into a rear room, his companion following with the lamp.
He manipulated the necessary levers, but before many minutes it became apparent that, if urged at that rate, the Silver Cobweb would never reach Sandy Beach without a break-down.
We've got to think of his people, too," urged the editor, as they mounted the steps of the elevated road.
So they knew that she was a celebrated personage, and they urged the maître d'hôtel to invite her to the ball, and then persuade her to take a part in their volunteer concert.
It was in vain I urged that I had everything to gain and nothing to lose by following his directions, but that it seemed to me that fidelity to truth forbade a pretended acceptance of that which was not believed.
You will have more opportunity for doing good as a clergyman's wife than as anything else," was one of the pleas urged on my reluctance.
I felt as though it must be a crime to refuse submission when she urged it, but still--to live a lie?
On his death-bed there was nothing more earnestly urged by my father than that Harry should receive the best possible education, and the widow was resolute to fulfil that last wish.
In vain I urged that I could not take it without telling the officiating clergyman of my heresy, and that under such circumstances the clergyman would be sure to refuse to administer to me.
It was in vain that it was urged on her that with the spring strength would return to the child.
Finally he urged upon them that the only safe method of proceeding was to employ what are called nowadays the Winston tactics--one side one day, the other the next, according to one's greater individual advantage.
Instead, however, of discontinuing his subscription he wrote to the editor and appealed on the grounds that The Student was becoming too prosy and Spectator-like, and urged him to keep it lighter in tone.
The Vatican then urgedthat the Senate should consent to receive absolution for its resistance to the Pope's authority.
Judicious friends in various European cabinets now urged both parties to recede or to compromise.
He urged the students to consecrate themselves by their example to the maintenance of a better standard of morality; but, despite his strength and force, the sermon seemed heavy and perfunctory.
Charles thought it was a burst of generous friendship, and admired the self-denial with which she urgedher aunt to relinquish the idea.
After taking a sufficient time to collect in some degree his faculties, he came to the conclusion that he had been too precipitate, and had urged the suit too far, and too hastily.
He urged me to join him at once, to take an interest in the most gigantic scheme ever conceived.
They became very much interested and urged me to let them send on consignment a car-load of horse-rakes and four threshing-machines.
I urged them to let him stay, convinced that he would be of great assistance on the farm.
On our way to the Mayor's office I urged him to tell us the trouble, but in vain.
The Doctor declared he would have the fellow arrested; but I urged that the best way was to keep still, and not even let him know that he was sick of his bargain.
The one place in London where the King's Messengers will not look to find you is the footboard of Lady Oxford's carriage,' urged Montague.
Of this favour he made frequent use, and no doubt the sight of the busy faces in the streets urged him yet more to make a bid for his freedom.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "urged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
