The Colchian allies prepared to desert his standard; and the fears of the bravest veterans were expressed, rather than concealed, by their desponding silence.
The emperor refused, at the return of each fifth year, the customary donative of five pieces of gold, reduced his veterans to beg their bread, and suffered unpaid armies to melt away in the wars of Italy and Persia.
Three thousand Heruli fought on horseback under Philemuth, their native chief; and the noble Aratus, who adopted the manners and discipline of Rome, conducted a band of veterans of the same nation.
Volunteer Infantry, may be claimed as a Coast Artillery trophy, since it was given by those who had borne it into the custody of the veterans who made up the National Guards, the 9th Co.
The heavy artillery had seen but little fighting; but they now stood up likeveterans and drove back an entire corps.
Young men, however, are more successful than veterans in maintaining the interest of an active regiment; and apathy concerning military matters characterized the public thinking during the years immediately following the war.
Seven Pines and Savage's Station fill that role for veterans of the old 1st.
Fortunately many veteransof the companies retained interest in military affairs, and appreciated the importance of maintaining the militia, so that they connected themselves with organizations designed to perpetuate the old regiment.
Mexican veterans afterward organized a company in our command; and became the recognized custodians of the 1st Volunteers' Mexican battle-flag.
Veterans of the 4th Regiment residing in Taunton organized the Taunton City Guard on Nov.
Coming as it did when class sensitiveness was acute, and when the old Civil War veterans were ready to retire permanently from active military service, it did much to break up the command.
As it became difficult to secure a sufficient number of Mexican veterans in Boston, admission was granted to all militia veterans, after a few years.
With a glance he remarked everything; the governor's calm and menacing attitude; the Swiss ranked in the guardhouses; the Veteranson the platforms, and the silent bustle of the artillerists loading up their caissons with ammunition.
The French Veterans and the Swiss, aware that their safety was at stake, silently looked at him in superstitious terror.
The refusal of the French Veterans exasperated him.
Sir George Prevost, though he had an army of veteranstwice as strong as the American army of militia, broke camp and sneaked away under cover of a storm.
Curius and I are old veterans of the camp, old revellers, and love the wine cup better than the bright eyes of beauty, or the minstrel’s lute.
The nucleus of the new army he found in the Czech mercenaries, seasoned veterans who readily transferred their services to the best payer.
One by one the veterans struggled through the pass, but they were discovered by La Torre before they issued upon the plain.
The natty uniforms of the officers were worn and soiled and the faces of all were haggard and in many cases the beards of veterans had replaced the smooth cheeks and chins of the militiaman.
As the companies marched by the old soldiers of the civil war gave us three cheers, in which the militia veterans joined.
In 1868 a number of the veterans of the Civil war organized the Peabody guard which was attached to the Second regiment as G company.
G company and some veterans of B company, all headed by the Second Regiment band to act as escort for the companies as far as the union station.
A surprisingly large number of the officers and men who had served in the war remained in the regiment and this was especially the case in the three Springfield companies, G and B having more of the veterans than K.
Veterans of the French army receive the descending tri-colour, and followed by a procession of uncovered heads bear it with funereal tread to Laussat.
Veterans of the Revolution and of the Continental Congress met to frame a constitution in 1787.
Congress would pay them in these lands, and so the scarred veteransof a hundred battles launched on the emigrant trail.
For years those old veterans had related to their children and grandchildren the story of that tragic day when Clark, the hero, broke the sword Virginia gave him.
No survivor of the group can recall the sadness of that morning without again being touched by the wave of emotion which broke down the reserve and control of these war-worn veterans on learning that their great captain was dead.
The armies of the West were now placed under the command of General Sherman, and early in 1864, Grant was brought to Virginia to take up the perplexing problem of overcoming the sturdy veterans of General Lee.
First came the great review, graced by the presence of the White House Court, who witnessed the marching past of the biennial veterans with perfect patience, if not satisfaction.
But--putting aside that military aptitude inherent in every Frenchman--in all ranks there was a leaven of veterans strong enough to keep the turbulent conscripts in order, though the aristocratic element of authority was wanting.
Amid his loud shrieks of agony one of Pompey's veterans shouted, 'Dead dogs no longer bite, but they howl when dying!
The veterans who opposed the treachery were hewn down by the wretch's orders, but the brave garrison of the city could not be won over to the monstrous crime.
One of the Imperator's veterans aided the faithful servant.
How sadly, too, she had been disappointed in the hope--that the veterans who had served under Antony would desert their new commander at the first summons and flock to his standard!
With Cartier on this voyage there were over one hundred men, of whom the majority were hardened Malouins, veterans of the sea.
The veterans of Illyria and Moesia constituted the flower of the force now enrolled; and it was further strengthened by the addition of a body of Gothic auxiliaries.
No motive but disinterested conviction kept a handful of veterans steadfast round a banner which was never raised except to be swept contemptuously down by the disciplined and overwhelming strength of the ministerial phalanx.
To take on new Skoda or Krupp guns with these short-range veterans is rough on the gunners.
The veterans give experience and steadiness;--when the battle is joined the old hands feel bound to make good their camp-fire boastings to the recruits.
An amalgam of veterans and fresh keen recruits, cemented by a common county feeling as well as by war tradition, makes the best fighting formation in the world.
The Disney World veterans of their heyday remembered them as failure-prone behemoths that you needed a forklift to budge when they died, but the ride people had done something to improve on the design.
He could call Tjan, or even Kettlebelly, just ring them out of the blue, veterans together shooting the shit.
There were present a few of the veterans who had taken part in the anti-slavery struggles fifty years before, such as Joseph Sturge and Sir Harry Verney, M.
Here the Colored Troops, all of them recruited from slave States, stormed fortified positions of the enemy with the bayonet through open fields, and behaved like veteransunder the most destructive fire.
But they stood it, and when my arrangements were completed for charging the works, they moved with the steadiness of veterans to the attack.
We have," he said, "about one hundred and twenty old men in Plymouth, largely veterans of the Civil War.
We may assume therefore that income taxes must be equal in States which have this constitutional provision, although in one or two of them recent statutes have exempted a portion of the income of veterans of the Civil War.
The growth of a contrary principle is only noteworthy on the two lines touching respectively the whites in the South and veterans of wars in the North.
An enormous number of Spanish War veterans who never even left the country are being added to the list, and their widows will be after them; the last survivor of such may not die before A.
Most of the young veterans blases exhibited in these albums are in uniform.
That scarred veteranscould not get their pensions paid was an evil which could be borne; but the regent had mistresses to appease!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veterans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
