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Example sentences for "whole army"

  • Varus's whole army, facing that way, saw their men flee and cut down.

  • At sunrise on the 11th the march was resumed; and the same afternoon found the whole army in camp at Grand Ecore.

  • Sheridan advanced to Mount Jackson on the morning of the 24th of September, and before nightfall had concentrated his whole army there.

  • At the same time Garrard was ordered to occupy the trenches on our left, while Schofield's whole army moved to the extreme right, and extended the line toward East Point.

  • In course of time all the comic talent of the nation was attracted to the Uestoekoes, and a whole army of notable humorists supported its editor.

  • By this time a whole army of silver coins stood before me.

  • His first intention was to go by water; but finding that he had not transports enough for his whole army, together with the Tory refugees who had put themselves under his protection, he changed his plan.

  • A general rout, dismay, and disgrace would have attended the whole army in any other hands but his.

  • Chosroes indeed was much perturbed by this, and, already filled with anger, he advanced against the Romans with his whole army.

  • Chosroes, accordingly, constructed a bridge with great celerity and crossed the River Euphrates suddenly with his whole army.

  • So after these things had been thus accomplished, he departed and marched back with the whole army.

  • It suppressed all insurrectionary spirit in the south of France; and placed a whole army at their disposal elsewhere.

  • The confusion necessarily accompanying the march of a whole army, through narrow streets and upon a single bridge, was fearful.

  • A want of discipline and proper subordination pervaded the whole army, and if disease and sickness thinned the American army encamped at Valley Forge, indolence and luxury perhaps did no less injury to the British troops at Philadelphia.

  • But, notwithstanding the diligence with which the whole army engaged in the work, their progress was exceedingly slow, so formidable were the obstacles which nature as well as art had thrown in their way.

  • With a thousand like you we could charge me whole army, if the general would let us!

  • I did not flatter myself that with one leg against a whole army I had much chance, sir!

  • By the 1st of February, General Sherman's whole army was in motion from Savannah.

  • The corps was sandwiched between the rebels on the heights and Lee's whole army; while on its left was a strong force, and on its right an impassable river.

  • It is another thing with Kmita, who is slipping by with a few men; but when the prince hetman passes with a whole army?

  • An hour passed, and a second; at last it was stated that not a party was approaching, but a whole army.

  • The Governor, after embracing the odalisk, strolled thoughtfully through the labyrinth of fragrant trees where the paths were covered by coloured pebbles and a whole army of domesticated birds made their nests in the trees.

  • I would be ready to go over to the enemy with my whole army at once rather than permit so much as a mouse belonging to my household to be caught within my tent by a foreign cat, let alone the disgrace of handing over my generalissimo!

  • And now followed a negro, who brought some recaptured Turkish banners from the bed of a river which did not exist, in which the Turks had drowned the whole army of Montecuculi.

  • Ned saw a lone deaf man in blue standing bareheaded, fighting a whole army so intent on his work he hadn't noticed that his regiment had retreated and left him.

  • I've an idea that he will turn up to-day on Pope's rear with Lee's whole army on his heels.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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