Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earlier despatches told of terrific attacks and ghastly slaughter in which the Wu troops were victorious. Then Chang exploded a land mine under the Wu armies, killed thousands. Immediately a formidable attack was launched by Chang; and the Wu armies began to retreat...
Orion grew up to be the lord of Erl and a great hunter. His hall was filled with stags' heads. Then, one evening, he unleashed his thin black hounds at the very edge of Elfland and cut off a white unicorn from its faery retreat. That was a brave chase and when Orion brought home the head, the Parliament of Erl began to feel their lord was indeed a magic lord. When he employed the trolls for whips and the will-o'-the-wisp marsh-folk to help him hunt unicorns by night, they knew his magic beyond...
...first four rounds, especially in the fourth, when his famed right landed on Gibbons' jaw and rocked him for a moment. Gibbons, stung, concealed his trouble and soon counterattacked. From that point until the end the bout was more like a race than a fight. Carpentier, in full retreat, was near a knock-out in the ninth and tenth rounds. In the ninth he fell without being hit and claimed an injured leg. At this point, Gibbons noticeably let up in his attack when Carp seemed pleading verbally with him in the last two rounds. Unsportsmanlike. Gibbons was decidedly...
...qualities of self-control and firm restraint. Even in the Puritan England of Oliver Cromwell, John Milton decried the growing tendency to banish evil influences instead of enabling men to overcome them by a sense of personal responsibility. And the present move is, besides, some what reminiscent of the retreat of the eighteenth century romanticists to their ivory tower...
Written by a British officer in frank expression of his views in the critical period of the siege of Boston in 1775, lost by its owner soon after in the British retreat from Philadelphia, buried for almost a century in the possessions of a Connecticut family, unearthed by Elizabeth Ellery Dana, and forever rescued from the scrap heap of history by the Harvard University Press--this, in brief, is the story of the "Diary of a British officer in Boston in 1775" which will shortly issue from the Press...