Defences

Examples

• The report from Sheridan embraced his operations up to his passing the outer defences of Richmond. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had no infantry or other defences besides our one gun. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Before leaving Spottsylvania, therefore, I sent back to the defences of Washington over one hundred pieces of artillery, with the horses and caissons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was no thought of the child in your heart or in his, I went on, determined to press her back to her last defences. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Compeyson says to me, 'Separate defences, no communication,' and that was all. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In fact, nowhere after the battle of the Wilderness did Lee show any disposition to leave his defences far behind him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Such were the defences of Monterey in September, 1847. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Thomas has got back into the defences of Nashville, with Hood close upon him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He's going to try, at all events, as he evidently thinks his shot has told heavily on our defences. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The experience of the 22d convinced officers and men that this was best, and they went to work on the defences and approaches with a will. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Work was therefore pushed with great vigor on the defences, to enable the minimum number of troops to hold the fort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Since the beginning of time, little by little, stone by stone, have the therns been ever adding to the defences of their stronghold. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And all the while the pensive, tortured woman piled up her own defences of aesthetic knowledge, and culture, and world-visions, and disinterestedness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In that case the enemy himself could have occupied the defences of Corinth and held at bay all the Union troops that arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We should have a good navy, and our sea-coast defences should be put in the finest possible condition. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Deep ravines of the description given lay in front of these defences. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Money spent upon sea-coast defences is spent among our own people, and all goes back again among the people. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have described the defences of this position before. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On the 8th of July Sherman was within ten miles of Jackson and on the 11th was close up to the defences of the city and shelling the town. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Such were the defences of the City of Mexico in September, 1847, on the routes over which General Scott entered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sheridan passed through the outer defences of Richmond, and could, no doubt, have passed through the inner ones. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From the proximity of the enemy to his defences around Richmond, it was impossible, by any flank movement, to interpose between him and the city. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was an entrance from the west through the outer stockade, which communicated by a drawbridge, with a similar opening in the interior defences. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She was never quite sure how many defences Gudrun was having round herself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• 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 .
• These defences proved therefore to be mere traps for their garrisons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was wonderful how quickly they could in this way construct defences of considerable strength. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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