Invading

Examples

• However, supposing myself to be a minister of state, I could never give my advice for invading them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There is an indefinite sense that he must be invading some region of singularity, good or bad. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The supply of slave labour had fallen off because the empire was no longer an invading but an invaded power; he turned to serfdom as the remedy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In a very short time the invading army had met its Waterloo, and the lunches were safe from any further attack. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The duke issued one of the most foolish proclamations in history; he was, he said, invading France to restore the royal authority. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The house was deserted, and had been one of those assigned to the invading strangers quartered in London. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Already the Army of Northern Virginia had defeated the army under General Pope and was invading Maryland. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Civilization is invading their homes and driving out their older characteristics. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Some of Rouncewell's hands have just knocked off for dinner-time and seem to be invading the whole town. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I shrank then--I shrink still--from invading the innermost sanctuary of her heart, and laying it open to others, as I have laid open my own. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typist: Nigel