Marches

Examples

• For then the Marches, Laurences, Brookes and Bhaers turned out in full force and made a day of it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The country does not abound in fresh water, and the length of the marches had to be regulated by the distance between water supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The marches were short, to make concentration easier in case of attack. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So he whistles it off and marches on. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He smokes gravely and marches in slow time. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Having so discharged himself of the subject of his cogitations, he falls into step and marches off with the trooper, shoulder to shoulder. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They remonstrated also upon the risk of damage to their horses by these forced marches. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She sometimes played tunes upon them with her fingers--minuets and marches I should think--but never moved them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He marches on old Moscow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady's will, but the unworldly Marches only said. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Jack or Donald marches away to glory with his knapsack on his shoulder, stepping out briskly to the tune of The Girl I Left Behind Me. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A family home, he ruminates as he marches along, however small it is, makes a man like me look lonely. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was no hurry, but fair marches were made every day until the Illinois River was crossed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now, the garden separated the Marches' house from that of Mr. Laurence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Every one liked Laurie, and he privately informed his tutor that the Marches were regularly splendid girls. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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