According to her mother's heart a wonder had been performed, and it had been done for her special benefit.The village was in full posture of defense, all were inside the walls and every man had gone to his post.They now awaited the attack, and yet there was some distrust of Henry Ware....
And his hand seizing his manchetta, he put himself into a posture of defense.The monkey, alarmed, jumped back at once, and not so brave before a waking man as a sleeping one, performed a rapid caper, and glided under the trees....
Daniel Poe went back with the messengers to the wagons, and soon it was known to everybody that the Indians were laying an ambush for them all.Some wails broke forth from the women, but they were quickly suppressed, and all labored together to put the camp in posture of defense.The strangers were among them, cheering them, and predicting victory if battle should come....
Once at Jamestown, it would take three days to warn each lonely scattered settlement, to put the colony into any posture of defense.What of the leagues of danger-haunted forest to be traversed before even a single soul of the three thousand could be warned?...
In order to march thither, I assembled the companies at Bethlehem, the chief establishment of those people.I was surprised to find it in so good a posture of defense; the destruction of Gnadenhut had made them apprehend danger....
The city was in actual process of being sacked, the enemy putting the men to the sword, demolishing the fortifications, and dragging the women and children with lamentable shrieks and cries prisoners into the castle.The commanders, giving all for lost, were not able to put the citizens in any tolerable posture of defense, finding them confusedly mixed up and scattered among the enemy.While they were in this condition, and the Achradina in danger to be taken, everyone was sensible who he was in whom all their remaining hopes rested, but no man for shame durst name Dion, whom they had so ungratefully and foolishly dealt with....
It was an old castellated building, with bastions and walls capable of standing a siege.The party were gladly received by the master, Sir Francis Burdett, who had placed his castle in a posture of defense, but was short of men.Upon the news of the approach of the enemy he had hastily driven a number of cattle into the yard, and had stores of provisions sufficient to stand a siege for some time....
She had a rifle in her hand, and as the squad changed their course and approached her, she could be seen at the distance of half a mile putting herself in the posture of defense and making ready to use her rifle.The horsemen waved their hats and shouted loudly to advise her that they were friends....
The absurdity of the words made him burst into nervous laughter; yet he saw that the drunken man was coming, and he instinctively put her behind him and took some sort of a posture of defense.
Alcetas flatly refused to serve, because his Macedonians, he said, were ashamed to fight against Antipater, and loved Craterus so well, they were ready to receive him for their commander.Neoptolemus designed treachery against Eumenes, but was discovered; and being summoned, refused to obey, and put himself in a posture of defense....
Over these many months I have personally participated in its development.The aim is a sensible posture of defense.The secondary aim is increased efficiency and avoidance of waste....
It was neither showy nor attractive, such work as this, but it was very vital, and it was done.By the end of July the army was in a better posture of defense; and then at the beginning of the next month, as the prospect was brightening, it was suddenly discovered that there was no gunpowder.An undrilled army, imperfectly organized, was facing a disciplined force and had only some nine rounds in the cartridge-boxes....
De Wardes, however, on the contrary, perfectly furious, bounded forward and raised his sword, threateningly, against Raoul, who had scarcely enough time to put himself in a posture of defense.
De Wardes, however, on the contrary, perfectly furious, bounded forward and raised his sword, threateningly, against Raoul, who had scarcely time to put himself in a posture of defense.
The tigerherd having perceived me, now came striding forward, brandishing his crook and shaking his fists with great vehemence, gestures which I soon learned were, in that country, signs of amity and good-will.But before knowing that fact I had risen to my feet and thrown myself into a posture of defense, and as he approached I led for his head with my left, following with a stiff right upon his solar plexus, which sent him rolling on the grass in great pain.After learning something of the social customs of the country I felt extreme mortification in recollecting this breach of etiquette, and even to this day I cannot think upon it without a blush....
