Armies

Examples

• We had walked through two armies without incident. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It was then a Union victory, in which the Armies of the Tennessee and the Ohio both participated. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The eastern armies did not so much defeat him as push past him, and Paris capitulated in March. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One of the first standing armies, of which we have any distinct account in any well authenticated history, is that of Philip of Macedon. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He limited the number of these traders to one for each of his three armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The most friendly relations seemed to exist between the pickets of the two armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Warlike Tribes have been put to flight so easily by civilised armies in modern times that such tribes have been doubted as possessing their boasted or even natural courage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Devils gathered their legions in his sight; their dim, discrowned, and tarnished armies passed rank and file before him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The two armies had been confronting each other so long, without any decisive result, that they hardly knew which could whip. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My general plan now was to concentrate all the force possible against the Confederate armies in the field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was a series of battles, in which the Russian armies were finally defeated and the Grand Duke of Kieff taken prisoner. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As this is written, the world is filled with the clang of contending armies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nothing was found there but dead bodies of men of both armies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The killed, and many of the severely wounded, of both armies, lay within this belt where it was impossible to reach them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Many different causes contributed to relax the discipline of the Roman armies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Fleets and armies are maintained, not with gold and silver, but with consumable goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• During three long years the Armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia had been confronting each other. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By these instructions a large part of the armies operating against Richmond is left behind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But as the Roman Empire grew, its armies absorbed its intelligent farmers, the tilling of the soil was left to the menial and the slave, and the Empire and agriculture declined together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Armies would wallow across the country, leaving nothing behind but dust and mud. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I could look down through the woods and see, far below, with the sun on it, the line of the river that separated the two armies. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He began to order new levies and gather fresh armies amidst the wreckage of his world empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So far as practicable all the armies are to move together, and towards one common centre. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And by the great armies suddenly raised in that small territory they inhabited, it appears to have been very full of people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• These two armies, and the cities covered and defended by them, were the main objective points of the campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• SHERMAN, Commanding Armies near Savannah, Ga. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Battle of Ch?teau Thierry (July 18th) proved the quality of the new American armies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From the time of the siege of Veii, the armies of Rome received pay for their service during the time which they remained in the field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To the van of the armies he summoned,-- Grace Boultby and Mary Sykes lead out Whinbury. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yes, and slings were used in European armies until nearly a hundred years after America was discovered. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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