Fronts
[frʌnts]
Examples
- General Meade at once ordered the other corps to advance and feel the enemy in their respective fronts. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had little jewelled buttons in the lawn shirt fronts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The house fronts the east, I perceive. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Or on other fronts they might scale it easily and be no better off than they had been before. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Generals Ord, Wright, and Parke made examinations in their fronts to determine the feasibility of an assault on the enemy's lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Here and there, on the fronts of roadside inns, we found huge, coarse frescoes of suffering martyrs like those in the shrines. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The corps commanders were to select the points in their respective fronts where they would make their assaults. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was a dark, cold night, with a chill, damp wind, which blew the rain heavily against the windows and house-fronts. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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