The heavy German guns had done great damage to the fortifications behind which Hal and Chester had taken shelter, and the possibility was now being seriously considered as to whether the fort could withstand another assault.
They can successfully withstandthe fire of the big German guns for weeks; and for the Germans to try and take them by storm will mean annihilation.
Everywhere, as the boys strolled about the streets, preparations to withstand a siege were being made; but everything was being done quietly and without confusion.
Stanton had recognized the vault construction type: the Voisier construction, which, by test, could withstand almost everything known, outside of the actual application of atomic energy itself.
The patterns were too fragile to withstand the direct probing of his conscious mind.
Johnston would come up, and Grant, having such heavy losses, would be unable to withstand the united Confederate armies.
He was just in time to help other troops, not in numbers enough to withstand the shock.
They are built in this way to make the pins that fly side-wise spring back on the bed and knock down other standing pins, and also to withstand the exceedingly rough usage to which they are subject by the flying pins and rolling balls.
The half of the pocket net not attached to the irons is tacked to the edge of the frame, underneath the bed, and covered with red leather, to withstand wear and for decorative effect.
For if there were any to withstand my conviction, I am ready to wager that there never lived a woman before whom all the world of men could pass without making her choice.
Edith was not in condition to withstand such a stormy outburst of motherly affection.
Verily, what mortal, with a heart, could withstand the contrasts as were revealed to this tender maiden?
Although we are not told the composition of the fleet of Jannetin Doria, it must have been a large one, as Dragut had under his orders thirteen galleys, and was unable to withstand the attack to which he was subject.
They were seaworthy enough for ordinary weather, but could not withstand such a tempest as the one in which Requesens put to sea.
He had been unable to withstand the might of Cæsar and his legions, but Tunis was not the whole of Northern Africa, nor had quite all his eggs been kept in that one basket.
For four hours did these indomitable men withstand the might of a host innumerable: at the conclusion of this period there remained alive but sixty of the garrison.
They reined up, turned round, and charged again, but the four who were left were too wise to withstand the shock; they swerved aside.
The sea-steeds foam; they plunge and rock: The warriors meet in battle shock; The ring-linked coats of strongest mail Could not withstand the iron hail.
For at first Pompey left a portion of his army in position, went to Corduba and strengthened it, and as Caesar did not withstand his troops, put his brother Sextus in charge of it.
On the contrary, Colonel Biddulph, in words quoted on a previous page, states that experience had shown that English horses could not withstand the conditions of campaigning in the Soudan.
You drew me after you, and the violence of the attraction was so soft, that I could not withstand it.
Prince Ahmed could not longwithstand the pressing instances of the fairy.
As soon as Alla ad Deen had seen the princess, his heart could not withstand those inclinations so charming an object always inspires.
It seemed to them good for nothing, as it did not withstand the stone, and they threw it down.
Gudrid said, “We have come forth unwarily, and thou canst in no wise withstand the cold; let us even go home as quickly as possible.
True the beams of the lower story were thick enough, and the only door was barred, but a dozen axes could in a short time break in the door and, however thick the beams, they could not withstand fire.
War-ships are built to withstand impact, but merchant-ships--no.
They must be capable men who go in submarines; of good nerve, quick wit, and the power to withstand long nervous strain.
This means the pressure which an ordinary locomotive boiler has to withstand multiplied by twelve.
Near the sea this has been effected by timber platforms, sustained by piles sufficiently strong to withstand the force of the floods at the change of each monsoon.
Who can withstand the Almighty, or frustrate his purposes?
Though Thou mayest withstand the ravages of time,-- While countless millions, swept away with all Their mighty works, are lost in following years.
In this way they hoped to withstand the storm which had so long beaten upon them, and whose black clouds now seemed lowering in awful gloom, preparing to burst with overwhelming fury upon all who dared to stand for liberty and law.
This bait must be applied every few days until the plants have reached a stage when they are able to withstand cut-worm attack.
This insect can withstand severe winters, and is to be controlled by the use of red oil.
He believed that there was no government in the United States which could withstand such pressure as that which would be brought to bear on it by the Irish Americans, especially if a Presidential election were near.
The great object of the watch-maker's ambition is to produce a time-keeper minutely accurate, and yet not so delicately constructed that it cannotwithstand the rough usage to which even moderately careful wearers subject it.
Nothing but the pure gold of Catholicity can withstand the material flame which burns brightest and hottest in the nineteenth century, and it may only survive stripped of every earthly and human quality, attribute, and advantage.
These all depend on the public opinion of the age, the nation, or the sect, and have no power to withstand that opinion.
