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Reduced almost to a nullity by the Prince of Orange, it was time for him to make a stand, and in this impregnable fastness his position at least was a good one. Many months before, the Prince of Orange had expressed his anxious desire that this most important town and citadel should be secured-for the estates.
'You think the vault is impregnable? 'Yes, sir, said Mr. Galpin. 'I should say its name was just about as near being Gibraltar as makes no matter. 'I was only wondering, Hugo mused aloud, 'only wondering.... Ah, well, I won't trouble you with my fancies. 'As you wish, sir. Good-bye. 'Good-bye, Mr. Galpin. And thank you! 'Thank you, sir, said Mr. Galpin, and disappeared.
They accordingly consented to lay down their arms, and the impregnable fastness of the Pra du Tour, which had never been taken by force, thus fell before falsehood and perfidy. "The defenders of this ancient sanctuary of the Church," says Dr.
On the night of the calends themselves he would have been the master of Præneste, that rich and inaccessible strong-hold, by a nocturnal escalade! That I myself have already made impossible—the magistrates are warned, the free burghers armed, and the castle garrisoned by true men, and impregnable.
His legal friend, however, driven from the mere outwork of facts, had taken refuge in the citadel of law; he was equal to the occasion. Alas! Alderson knew the way into this impregnable retreat.
Accordingly the earl began to make incursions of the frontiers into what Smith calls the Land of Zarkam among rocky mountains, where were some Turks, some Tartars, but most Brandittoes, Renegadoes, and such like, which he forced into the Plains of Regall, where was a city of men and fortifications, strong in itself, and so environed with mountains that it had been impregnable in all these wars.
By this means the Boers make their laagers almost impregnable. If they have a choice of ground, they pick a narrow ravine, or gully, with a line of hills front and rear, covered with small rocky boulders and bushes. They drive their waggons along the ravine, and make a sort of rude breastwork across the gully with the waggons.
Legislation, the administration of the laws of the country, and the exercise of rights by the people, all prove to the contrary. We are politically, not of them, but aliens to the laws and political privileges of the country. These are truths fixed facts, that quaint theory and exhausted moralising, are impregnable to, and fall harmlessly before.
Of course impregnable! but only to him. Battle at Williamsburg; and McClellan and his so perfect staff altogether ignorant of the whole bloody but honorable affair as fought against terrible odds by Heintzelman and Hooker; but the great Napoleon's bulletin mentions a real Oh hear! hear the great Mars! charge with the bayonet, made at the other extremity of Williamsburg, and in which from twenty to forty men were killed!
Two thirds of them uselessly jammed up behind. A mere handful can hold them up " Harold put in, "Yes, and those terrific fortresses, sir." "Precisely. Precisely. Liége, Namur, Antwerp absolutely impregnable, all the military correspondents say so. Impregnable. Well, then. There you are. It's like sending a thousand men to fight in a street. Look here " He went vigorously to the window.
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