Manoeuvring

Examples

• The 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th, were consumed in manoeuvring and awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from Washington. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My poor aunt had certainly little cause to love the state; but, however, speaking from my own observation, it is a manoeuvring business. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The 9th, 10th, and 11th were spent in manoeuvring and fighting, without decisive results. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Yet he suddenly began to feel himself drifting into the old track of manoeuvring on Thomasin's account. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And if this seems like manoeuvring, you must remember that her position is peculiar, and that she has been hardly used. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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