Mahomet preserved his own life not without difficulty, but did not lose his capacity with the battle: he had still a great number of troops remaining, which he rallied, and entrenched himself at Membret, a place naturally strong, with an intention to pass the winter there, and wait for succours.
They therefore entrenched themselves on a hill over against the enemy's camp, and though victorious, were under great disadvantages.
Sometimes he remembered how he had heard that soldiers in war when
entrenched under the enemy's fire, if they have nothing to do, try hard to find some occupation the more easily to bear the danger.
WHILE Norman of Torn and his thousand fighting men marched slowly south on the road toward Dover, the army of Simon de Montfort was preparing for its advance upon Lewes, where King Henry, with his son Prince Edward, and his brother, Prince Richard, King of the Romans, together with the latter's son, were
entrenched with their forces, sixty thousand strong.
"Give me my own company at my back, my artillery well posted, my reserves in position, the enemy not too strongly
entrenched, and our dear old Colonel's voice shouting
After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the
entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extremity of the portage.
The Happars,
entrenched behind their mountains, and never even showing themselves on their summits, did not appear to me to furnish adequate cause for that excess of animosity evinced towards them by the heroic tenants of our vale, and I was inclined to believe that the deeds of blood attributed to them had been greatly exaggerated.
Bredin had
entrenched himself behind the cash-desk, peering nervously at Paul through the cream, and Paul, pouring forth abuse in his native tongue, was brandishing a chocolate eclair.
His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance-office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity
entrenched in establishments and forms some vigor of wild virtue.
'Take care, Sir,' said Dodson, who, though he was the biggest man of the party, had prudently
entrenched himself behind Fogg, and was speaking over his head with a very pale face.
Whatever is the meaning of this odd little nook of grass and flowers, it is not an
entrenched position.
Regretfully it seems unlikely that such
entrenched views that presently exist will ever be put to one side even in the interest of the common good.