Hence a wise general makes a point of
foraging on the enemy.
Denisov, who had been losing at cards all night, had not yet come home when Rostov rode back early in the morning from a foraging expedition.
Rostov waved his cap above his head like the German and ctied laughing, "Und vivat die ganze Welt!" Though neither the German cleaning his cowshed nor Rostov back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostov going to the cottage he occupied with Denisov.
Foraging about, I found a bottle with some brandy left, for Hands; and for myself I routed out some biscuit, some pickled fruits, a great bunch of raisins, and a piece of cheese.
As summer advances, he gives up his bachelor rambles, and bethinking himself of housekeeping duties, returns home to his mate and his new progeny, and marshals them all for the
foraging expedition in quest of winter provisions.
All was still to the westward; we looked in vain towards his stronghold: the King slumbered on so deeply that he let his
foraging brother steal the very mantle of gold-lined purple clouds from his bowed shoulders.
To be sure there was one rather unpleasant drawback to these agreeable anticipations--the possibility of falling in with a
foraging party of these same bloody-minded Typees, whose appetites, edged perhaps by the air of so elevated a region, might prompt them to devour one.
The departure of the Indians to their winter quarters gradually rendered provisions scanty, and obliged the colonists to send out
foraging expeditions in the Dolly.
It is not the occasional member of its species that is a man hunter--all are man hunters; but they do not confine their
foraging to man alone, for there is no flesh or fish within Pellucidar that they will not eat with relish in the constant efforts which they make to furnish their huge carcasses with sufficient sustenance to maintain their mighty thews.
Had it not been for an incident which now befell, the baronial army would doubtless have reached the city without being detected, but it happened that the evening before Henry had ordered a
foraging party to ride forth at daybreak, as provisions for both men and beasts were low.
tribe off their traditional hunting and
foraging grounds.
There will be an opportunity in Stirling tomorrow (Thursday) to learn more about wild food and
foraging in Lapland.
foraging - the act of searching for food and provisions