Generals
['dʒɛnərəl]
Examples
- While duplicates of the two letters were being made, the Union generals present were severally presented to General Lee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Roman generals were no match for the Carthaginian, and whenever they met him they were beaten. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have been talking with unseemly zeal about bloody battles and butchering generals; we arrive now at a triumph in your line. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Nobody said what anything was, but everybody said what the Mrs Generals, Mr Eustace, or somebody else said it was. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- WilliaMs. Generals Logan and Blair commanded the two corps composing the right wing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The generals in command of the Rhine legions, the Palatine troops, and the eastern armies, each attempted to seize power. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In their modes of expressing thought, these two generals contrasted quite as strongly as in their other characteristics. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Every one had his opinion about the manner in which the war had been conducted: who among the generals had failed, how, and why. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Usurpers, rebellious generals, and false prophets seemed to have vanished from the Moslem dominions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Upton, 121st New York Volunteers; Colonel William McCandless, 2d Pennsylvania Reserves, to be Brigadier-Generals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was not a supporter of him politically, but I knew him more intimately than I did any other of the volunteer generals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Generals Ord, Wright, and Parke made examinations in their fronts to determine the feasibility of an assault on the enemy's lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the evening of the same day he was in consultation with some of his generals on the same subject, and still again on the morning of the 6th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Buell was the senior of the two generals and commanded the entire column. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The efforts to kill off politically the two successful generals, made them both candidates for the Presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Jugurtha bought over the Commissioners sent out to watch him, the Senators charged with their prosecution, and the generals in command against him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- General Taylor's force was about six thousand five hundred strong, in three divisions, under Generals Butler, Twiggs and Worth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If he left things to his generals, one of those generals presently replaced him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In his death the army lost one of its ablest, purest and best generals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was now in a perilous position, one from which but few generals could have extricated themselves. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But though the insurgents experienced defeats and looting, neither of these generals brought the war to an end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We eat like generals. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Howard's command embraced the 15th and 17th corps, and Slocum's the 14th and 20th corps, commanded by Generals Jeff. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Confederate generals led their men in the repeated charges, and the loss among them was of unusual proportions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This force was composed of three divisions, under Generals Twiggs, Patterson, and Worth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His moving column, not even now more than ten thousand strong, was in four divisions, commanded by Generals Twiggs, Worth, Pillow and Quitman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Direct Generals Warren and Wright to withdraw all their teams and artillery, not in position, to the north side of the river to-morrow. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He estranged most of his colleagues and fellow generals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The four divisions of his corps were commanded by Generals Potter, Willcox, Ledlie and Ferrero. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Soon after entering the city of Mexico, the opposition of Generals Pillow, Worth and Colonel Duncan to General Scott became very marked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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