When they tried to
detach the skeleton which he held in his embrace, he fell to dust.
"Massacres are to be sternly forbidden as heretofore; but any citizen or subject of either country disobeying the injunction is to
detach the scalps of all persons massacred and deposit them with a local officer designated to receive and preserve them and sworn to keep and render a true account thereof.
The united strength of all three travellers was required to
detach these reservoirs from the bottom of the car in which they had been so firmly secured; but Kennedy was so strong, Joe so adroit, and the doctor so ingenious, that they finally succeeded.
I have avoided all general flirtation whatever; I have distinguished no creature besides, of all the numbers resorting hither, except Sir James Martin, on whom I bestowed a little notice, in order to
detach him from Miss Mainwaring; but, if the world could know my motive THERE they would honour me.
Two or three aides
detach themselves from the group and canter away into the woods, along the lines in each direction.
The power to
detach and to magnify by detaching is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet.
Each of them desired nothing more than to give himself up as a prisoner to escape from all this horror and misery; but on the one hand the force of this common attraction to Smolensk, their goal, drew each of them in the same direction; on the other hand an army corps could not surrender to a company, and though the French availed themselves of every convenient opportunity to
detach themselves and to surrender on the slightest decent pretext, such pretexts did not always occur.
As it is, he
detaches a single portion, and admits as episodes many events from the general story of the war--such as the Catalogue of the ships and others--thus diversifying the poem.
The slope eased off, at length we could be
detached, and Croz and I, dashed away, ran a neck-and-neck race, which ended in a dead heat.
At first it had appeared to them solitary and
detached; but as they advanced towards it, it proved to be the principal summit of a chain of mountains.
He
detached fifty men toward the south to winter upon Snake River, and to trap about its waters in the spring, with orders to rejoin him in the month of July at Horse Creek, in Green River Valley, which he had fixed upon as the general rendezvous of his company for the ensuing year.
The first mentioned was, that, regardless of the sentiments of either, I had
detached Mr.