Positions

Examples

• It resulted in securing more advanced positions for all our troops where they were fully covered from the fire of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And, first of all, we must choose our positions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• As they passed into other rooms these objects were taking different positions; but from every window there were beauties to be seen. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The disc is divided into eight or ten compartments, in each one of which the same figures are repeated, though the positions of one or more of them are changed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• These he deposited on the premises in such positions that she should see them as if by accident. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Many of these pioneer students and workmen became afterward large and successful contractors, or have filled positions of distinction as managers and superintendents of central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The rebel positions were on a bluff on the Yazoo River, some miles above its mouth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These positions were of immense importance to the enemy; and of course correspondingly important for us to possess ourselves of. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The army took up positions along the slopes of the mountains south of the city, as far west as Tacubaya. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What had occurred since, calculated to change his and my relative positions? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It is one thing to hold positions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He is developing his idea gradually in a series of positions or situations. Plato. The Republic.
• These relative positions were retained during the entire day, or until the enemy was driven from the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I don't deny it; but people's positions alter, sir. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The image was formed, we remember, by points of light grouped in the same relative positions as the points of light of the object we were photographing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All other general officers occupying similar positions were independent in their commands so far as any one present with them was concerned. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the better kind of Kaleidoscopes, the cell containing the objects may be turned round, by which means the pieces of glass shift their positions, and the figures instantly change. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I would only first beg to be allowed two or three positions mentioned in my former paper. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command? Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I could in all humility; but would an apology tend to place us in the positions we ought relatively to occupy in this matter? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But that night Hancock and Wright were to make a night march back to their old positions, and to make an assault at four o'clock in the morning. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Agitators who accept government positions are a disappointment to their followers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He rose in bed, drew up his withered limbs, and rolled about in uncouth positions; he was acting--he was at the theatre. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Although not shown in the sketch, there is in practice a number of bolts passing through these two sets of molds at various places to hold them together in their relative positions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Their positions were admirable for advancing upon the enemy's line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Common people, who in those ancient times were in dependent positions, seem to have had no money at all; they did their business by barter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here the enemy occupied two positions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Views of an ox trotting, a wild bull on the charge, greyhounds and deer running and birds flying in mid-air were shown, also athletes in various positions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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