Marching

Examples

• Helstone came in marching nimbly and erect, looking browner, keener, and livelier than usual. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Their position very nearly enfiladed the line of the enemy while he was marching through the cornfield. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Garland, of the 4th infantry, was the brigade commander, and on this occasion commanded the entire marching force. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They take with them neither wagons nor artillery; these latter marching with the balance of the army to the James River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sometimes in the dark we heard the troops marching under the window and guns going past pulled by motor-tractors. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He is marching straight on Brussels. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Although Sheridan had been marching all day, his troops moved with alacrity and without any straggling. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had not gone more than a few hundred yards when I saw a body of troops marching past me not fifty yards away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We were failing under the accumulated fatigue of days and days of ceaseless marching. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Hancock's corps had now been marching and fighting continuously for several days, not having had rest even at night much of the time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Events were marching too rapidly for any such development. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is so much to do about the play for Christmas night, said Jo, marching up and down, with her hands behind her back, and her nose in the air. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It occupied much of the road in marching, and taxed the trains in bringing up forage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Should he continue to write to her from Paris, whither the army was marching? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Supposing, for instance, that a man wanted to be always marching, he would find your mother an inestimable companion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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