Tell the Bashaw," cried out the Colonel to Casolaina, "I never saw such splendid manœuvring in all the course of my life.
They were manœuvring on the sea-beach between the city and the Masheeah.
They retreated by echelon, so as to be always in a position of mutual support, as if they had still been manœuvring in an enemy's country.
After two days of able manœuvring on the part of Lord Howe to gain the wind, which was thwarted by adverse circumstances, he quietly awaited the enemy's attack.
At the close of day on the 16th, the English formed into line, and a series of able manœuvring on both sides took place next morning.
By steady manœuvring Hood kept between him and the land.
While he was manœuvring in front of Guichen the days were passed in tacking in succession or tacking together, in wearing in succession or together, in forming column and forming line.
The second phrase, as the fencing men would say, of the duel with Guichen was pure manœuvring on both sides--mere doubling and disengaging.
The manœuvring and fighting which followed make what Cortes would have called a muy hermosa cosa--a very pretty piece of work.
At eleven or so, the first signs of manœuvring began by the enemy trying to get round our right flank.
A small pair of forceps is, however, very serviceable in quite young children in whom the post-nasal space may be so small as to prevent the manœuvring of any form of curette.
In addition to the usual precautions, particular attention should be paid while manœuvring in the anterior part of the space between the septum and the outer nasal wall.
One observation was forcibly impressed on me; namely, that both the firing and manœuvring of the French were a great deal more rapid than those of the Prussians.
Now ensued the remarkable manœuvring on both sides which, after the sharp combats of Castrejon and the Guareña, culminated in the battle of Salamanca.
But it was in the art of battle manœuvring and in the scientific employment of their weapons that the British had failed.
His troops were nearly all Volunteers, who were incapable of quickly manœuvring under difficult circumstances; they were crumpled up and driven back in confusion towards Hatfield Heath.
Thus the position was this: One German squadron was manœuvring to pass across the head of the British line, and the other to cross the rear of that line.
Not daring to attack him in such a position, yet unable to draw him out by manœuvring all the day, the Athenians were at length obliged to go back to Ægospotami.
After the man[oe]uvring back and forth between this Shawanoe and the youth, the former must have grown uneasy over the prolonged absence of his companion who had set out to recover the canoe.
Probably no damage was done, for it is the forlornest of jobs to loose mouldies against fast manœuvring ships, but lack of success does not in any way dim the splendour of the attempt.
With the principal range-finder gone and the after-control wrecked in the first few minutes, they were forced to depend upon skilful manœuvring and spotting to give accuracy to their guns.
All the while he was heading off the Germans he was manœuvring to give himself the advantage of light and to avoid the dropping shots which had killed his lost cruisers.
Every ten seconds my battery spat out six great shells, and I steadily drew the curtain in, keeping it always dead in his path, but by some miracle of light or of manœuvring the enemy escaped destruction for a whole long minute.
The signal bos’n turns purple with fierce resentment which he does not really feel, for he will be up all day and half the night beside the Officer of the Watch on the bridge running the manœuvring signals, and he loves to feel indispensable.
Manœuvring of the two armies—Skirmishing—A gallant Frenchman—Pratt and his prisoner.
She had more than an impersonal interest in the result, for in the thick of the manœuvring vessels, where the fight was fiercest, we are told was the ship on which were the King himself and his two sons.
That they contributed their fair share of powder and shot, and energy in manning and manœuvring the ships they had supplied there is ample evidence.
By this sacrifice, he acquired a facility of manœuvring rapidly his little army, and obtained the initiative as well as a general superiority over the numerous but divided forces of Marshal Wurmser.
They began the campaign near Badajoz, and after manœuvring across both Castiles, finished it in the kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia.
Some generals have gained their point by manœuvring so as to deceive the enemy, while a detachment under the cover of high grounds has surprised the passage by a stolen march.
Gun drill and driving drill became a daily affair, while battery staff work and manœuvring in the open were added to the curriculum.
The battle commenced (6th July) about nine o’clock, and there was no manœuvring on either side.
In the meantime, on the 18th October, a Russian field army was observed to be manœuvring on the allied flank and rear, and threatening the somewhat isolated garrison of Balaclava.
While this strange scene was being witnessed, Colonel Loch and Captain Speedy were manœuvring at the extremity of Selasse, on the road which encircled the fortress and thence led to Magdala.
We were manœuvring all day, to turn their flank; so that our fatigue was excessive, though our loss was but small.
She could have been charitable to Katie--but a manœuvring mother, a woman that would stick at nothing to get a good marriage for her girl!
So drowned with rain were the fields and meadows that manœuvring there was manœuvring in quagmires.
Perhaps it would be better, since darkness would afford little opportunity of man[oe]uvring for action, to draw nearer and to engage fairly soon.
By skilful man[oe]uvring he finally brought five warships, with colliers, together near Valparaiso.
It is after half an hour's manœuvring that we get off and proceed through the few more perilous bends still left, with a few more hair-breadth escapes.
Since our arrival at Calgary we have been manœuvring to see by what means we could escape the start at 2 o'clock in the morning.
It was on the Monday of the third week after leaving the garrison that the two divisions of the army-corps began man[oe]uvring against each other.
During the intervening three days the man[oe]uvring force had moved on to the plain, so that they lay at a distance of nearly fifteen miles from the castle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uvring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
