Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ordered to keep Polk occupied, Grant made a dash upon Belmont, just across the Mississippi from Columbus, and defeated Gen, Pillow decisively. His raw, troops became unmanageable, however, and delayed so long looting the camp, that the Confederates returned and almost cut off Grant's retreat...
...finds Napoleon and his troops on retreat from Moscow. He and two of his marshals are discovered in Russia separated from the army, and trying to conceal their identity from the Russians. They are in great straits when the army makes its appearance and rescues them. At the opening of the second act a specialty called "Off to Siberia," written by F. J. Harris '95, J. McC. Longacre '96, and H. W. Sage 2d, '95, will be introduced and performed by the above mentioned with the addition of W. K. Fowler...
...fired upon our men, Major Buttrick no longer stayed his hand, but cried to his force of militia, "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake fire!" This was the beginning of the Concord fight. The day went more and more against the regulars, and about noon they began to retreat. The farmers pursued them to Lexington, where, near two in the afternoon their numbers were augmented by a large reinforcement sent out from Boston, under Lord Percy. Percy and his command, however, instead of turning the unequal battle, merely joined the retreat. The regulars continued to flee, the embattled farmers...
...mountain, over which the sun was setting, spreading its red gold rays in a beautiful glow upon the summit. The poet, longing to reach the light and leave the gloomy forest depths behind, begins to ascend the mountain, when he meets a spotted leopard, which makes him retreat downward again. Three times he struggles to reach the summit, and three times he meets raging animals, and is forced back again into the darkening gloom. In utter despair he is wandering about the great crags at the foot of the mountain, when he meets a stranger, who reveals himself to Dante...
...taken, because, like Martin Luther, "so help him God he could do no otherwise." In conclusion he touched briefly upon Mr. Curtis's home life in the country, which kept him constantly fresh and hopeful. His work went on wherever he was, and his study was a charmed retreat. In the leisure hours, his house and his heart were open with the most generous hospitality. He was a superlatively good talker, and he enjoyed talking, and the stream flowed on in his moments of relaxation with the same variety of reflection, of reminiscence and of suggestion, which characterizes the essays...