Again proudly hoisting his colors, aided by the wind and followed by his whole squadron, he pressed for close quarters, where desperate fighting speedily won the battle.
Two advanced redoubts of the British works were soon carried by a brilliant assault in which the French and the American troops won equal honors.
When we thought we hadwon him with one gift, we found next day he had joined the opposition party or demanded a new gift as if he had not had one.
The Young Turk won in 1909, and Abdul Hamid was called on to abdicate.
At the time the journey had the glory of a plunge into a freed land rejoicing in liberty won after centuries of anguish.
Rallying ten thousand of his followers, Judas boldly attacked the huge Syrian army in front of Bethsura and again won an overwhelming victory.
In the first engagement, which was fought near Samaria, the Hebrews, profiting by the blind overconfidence of the enemy, won through a sudden attack.
On this battle-field the final decisive engagement in Israel's war of independence was fought, and the Hebrews won a sweeping victory.
According to the oldest biblical narratives, the tribes of Machir and Manasseh also won for themselves homes in Gilead, in the rich territory between the Jabbok and the Yarmuk.
David's rare personal charm also won this Philistine chieftain, even as it did all with whom he came in contact.
Rushing into the water the Jews again won a complete victory.
Elated by their easily won victory and attracted by the rich spoils in the camp of the vanquished king of Kadesh, the victors fell to plundering and thereby lost a precious opportunity to capture the city at once.
Even as it was, he was apparently on the eve of victory when he fell slain within the sight of the field on which he had won his first great battle.
I have fought my way in life's battle, And won Fortune's fickle caress; Won from fame just a passing notice, And enjoy what is called success.
The Allies will win, but if any one thinks that, having won without us, they will have won for us, he must be mad.
A sculptor who had won a prize at Rome and several other artists had had a room set aside for them to work in.
No one was near as she stepped out of the hut and made her way toward the part of the village where the revelers were making merry about a fire.
No wonder my son, so youthful, Fixed his heart on one like thee; For if I were a Prince of Dessau, Willing captive I might be.
He had rarely seen one whom he could so little associate with the notion of a murderer as Captain Thorn, and he was a man who exceedingly won upon the regard.
Had it been a stranger who had won my love and then thrown me from him, do you suppose I would have reproached him as I am now reproaching you?
Few men were so fascinating in manners, at times and seasons, in face and in form, few men won so completely upon their hearers' ears, and few were so heartless in their hearts of hearts.
But fame and fortune are not won so quickly as boys dream, nor is life as easy to live bravely as it looks in visions.
As a boy I won some popularity among my schoolmates as a teller of stories.
She was recounting her experiences with a modesty that had already won all hearts.
Yes, I knew him; it was Horace, he who won the college prize; Naught remained of his proud beauty but the splendor of his eyes.
Jim was my son, and a likelier lad you'd never wish to see, Till evil counsels won his heart and led him away from me.
If you cannot do this, a laundress and cook You can hire with little to pay; But a woman's heart and a woman's life Are not to be wonthat way.
He said that I ought to try my luck: that everybody wonat first.
He was facing westward toward India, that mystic ever-ever land that had been the goal of all the nations since before Columbus and was finally won by the steady strength and genius of a meager island people.
Possessed of a sudden spirit of banter Terry turned to the Major: "Before I begin, Major, I wish to congratulate you upon having won to the bliss of matrimony without violating that bachelor formula which you so often boasted.
They are newly won to us and apt to fade away into the foothills on the least provocation.
Her personal fascination had won for her an unlimited sway over the facile mind of Claudius, and she had either won over by her intrigues, or terrified by her pitiless severity, the noblest of the Romans and the most powerful of the freedmen.
All these works, and especially the applause won by the public reading of his poems, would have given him that high literary reputation which we know him to have earned.
The song on the battle of Brunanburh, won by the Anglo-Saxons over the Scotch and Danes, has been translated by Tennyson.
They venerate in the same manner all saints of whatever blood who have won heaven by the practice of virtue on English ground.
One of them put out Harold's eye; the English chief fell by his standard, and soon after the battle was over, the most memorable ever won by an army of Frenchmen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "won" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cent; dollar; franc; pie; pound; ruble; shilling; sou
