Word: rout
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...McCOY, Mang. H. U. B. B. C.ENGLISH A.- Hour examination on Tuesday, March 26, at nine o'clock: Adams-Dodge, in Sever 37; Dow-Lincoln, in Mass. 3; Littlefield-Rout, in Sever 5; Page-Richardson, in Sever 17; Riddle-Young...
...college boys; their "teams" do not plan a campaign and work it out, they trust to talk by judge and captain too much; but worse than all this, I have seen a lack of courage. There has been one man on the Yale team that has put to rout the Harvard players whenever he approached; and when in a tussle two men are down, the cowards are ready enough to jump on the pile. If irregularities occur, I believe they are due to want of pluck, and that that want is encouraged by the weak cry of brutality when...
...charge on one flank another in a different quarter was more successful, and a footing was gained in the enemy's line. Other attacks followed and rapidly division after division of the army broke and fled to the rear. The whole Confederate army was soon flying in complete rout along a single road with the cavalry and one corps in pursuit. This pursuit continued through heavy weather until Hood was safe beyond the Tennessee river. The losses at the two battles of Franklin and Nashville were nearly as follows: Federals over 2,000, Confederates 6,200 at Franklin; at Nashville...
Whom we had put to rout that...
...boys went to Boston to attend a party, and concluded to walk home. On the way they encountered an amiable policeman, who, after a brief discussion with them on the subject of making less noise, waded in, and with club, revolver, and fist, put the whole party to rout. They claim that they were only singing a little ditty, but he swears that they were drunk. - From a St. Louis Paper...