Marched
[mɑ:tʃt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of March
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Examples
- Lee had ordered Hill's corps--now commanded by Early--to move by the very road we had marched upon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Whereupon Hannibal marched straight through the south of Gaul, and crossed the Alps (218 B.C.) into Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then she took Dora's arm in hers, and marched us into breakfast as if it were a soldier's funeral. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Thence a force marched direct on Columbus, and another on West Point, both of which places were assaulted and captured on the 16th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Never in the history of Barsoom, Tars Tarkas told me, had such a force of green warriors marched to battle together. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Thence he marched on Charlottesville, destroying effectually the railroad and bridges as he went, which place he reached on the 3d. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When it was finished the army crossed and marched eight miles beyond to the North Fork that day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Rinaldi said that the French had mutinied and troops marched on Paris. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Camp Jackson surrendered without a fight and the garrison was marched down to the arsenal as prisoners of war. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Another column marched on the direct road and went into camp at the point designated for the two columns to meet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Quickening his step, he marched some yards in advance of his company. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Having formed his troop into line once more, he marched us straight on the farm, which, on seeing our force, surrendered without capitulation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Twice they actually marched right out of Rome, threatening to make a new city higher up the Tiber, and twice this threat proved conclusive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I was right, but didn't speak as I ought, and he marched home, saying he wouldn't come again till I begged pardon. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Thereupon he marched up the stairs to the office of the paper’s owner, and asked if he would give him fifteen hundred copies on trust. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The Gauls rose and marched south; they were defeated, and 40,000 of them killed at Telamon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was to have marched upon Germany, says Plutarch, through Parthia and Scythia, round the north of the Caspian and Black Seas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I am glad we were marched away. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The doomed man was marched down a hall and out at a door-way into the covered Bridge of Sighs, through it and into the dungeon and unto his death. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As we marched along, we began to get over our fears, and ceased to care much about quarantine scouts or any body else. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- On the 5th I marched again with Ord's command until within about ten miles of Burkesville, where I stopped to let his army pass. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They went on till two o'clock; their hearts were with the column as it marched farther and farther away. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These figures come running down when the regiment has marched by. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Seething mobs of men marched about, their faces lighted up as for holy war, with a smoke of cupidity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My home now was upon an avenue leading into the plaza from the south, the main artery down which we had marched from the gates of the city. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The infantry marched about as rapidly as the cavalry could. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The entire garrison marched and counter-marched within the rampart, in full view--yet notwithstanding even this, we never flinched. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Thence he marched on to Susa, once the chief city of the vanished and forgotten Elamites, and now the Persian capital. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He seized his shovel-hat and marched away. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Meanwhile, Simon turned on his heel, and marched up to the bar of the boat for a dram. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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