Reserves

Examples

• The attack was made, the Mexican reserves behind the works beat a hasty retreat, and those occupying them surrendered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were latent reserves of youth still left in Mr. Bruff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The little sum is nearly made up; and I have the means of completing it, if my last reserves of life fail me sooner than I expect. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A battalion was thrown to the rear, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Childs, of the artillery, as reserves. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Ames, who had gone north in his advance, captured 228 of the reserves. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Pennsylvania has also large forest reserves in its mountain districts, and many other states have taken similar action. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Upton, 121st New York Volunteers; Colonel William McCandless, 2d Pennsylvania Reserves, to be Brigadier-Generals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• New York has 1,600,000 acres in its forest reserve, Pennsylvania over 920,000, and the reserves of the other states amount to a very considerable area. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In that case it may be regarded as evident that the enemy are relying upon their local reserves principally for the defence of Richmond. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I will have no reserves from _you_. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It is my duty, and I am sure it is my wish, she continued, to have no reserves with you on this subject. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The reserves of the 9th corps should be massed as much as possible. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I deliver MYSELF over to the unknown, in coming to you, I am without reserves or defences, stripped entirely, into the unknown. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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