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He swooped to the left and engaged in the subtle, lightning-like maneuvers which so often accompany the opposing efforts of two skilled antagonists seeking to gain the advantage one over the other. This, as it was intended, gave Blaine his first chance to rise uninterruptedly and gain such height and distance as he desired.
Certain principles of honesty and courage forbid one to do certain things, just as the access to certain fields is interdicted in the army maneuvers. But the decision as to what has to be done is a very different matter, and no one can be sure of it beforehand, for politics are a task which can be compared only to the navigation of unknown waters.
"But if, as today, he meets a force three times superior?" inquired Herhor. "Daring keenness means more than strength," replied the old leader. "An elephant is fifty times stronger than a man; still he yields to him, or dies at his hands." Herhor listened in silence. The maneuvers were declared finished. Prince Ramses with the minister and commanders went to the army near Pi-Bailos.
In the same way, Marmont was unfortunate in having at Salamanca an adversary whose chief merit was a rapid and practiced tactical coup-d'oeil. With the Duke of York or Moore for an antagonist, Marmont would probably have been successful. Among the turning maneuvers which have succeeded in our day, Waterloo and Hohenlinden had the most brilliant results.
I leave with you what is dearest to me in the world, next to France, and I freely commit it to your care. "It may occur that in consequence of the maneuvers I am about to make, the enemy may find the opportunity of approaching your walls. If this should take place, remember that it will be an affair of only a few days, and I will soon come to your assistance.
Every European state has to-day its college, its intelligence department, its schools of instruction, and its course of field maneuvers and field firing." Strategy may be divided into two parts, war strategy and preparation strategy; and of these two, preparation strategy is by far the more important.
While we propose to maintain defensive and supplementary police forces by land and sea, and to train them through inspections and maneuvers upon appropriate occasions in order to maintain their efficiency, I wish every other nation to understand that this does not express any unfriendliness or convey any hostile intent.
I have been a journalist, you see, and am used to these little maneuvers." Wingrave looked at him steadily, with close-drawn eyebrows. "Am I to understand," he said "that you are in here in your journalistic capacity?" The newcomer shook his head. "Pray do not think," he said, "that I should be guilty of such an impertinence. My name is Aynesworth. Walter Aynesworth.
It was only too evident that the enemy U-boat had been crippled and put completely to rout by the daring maneuvers and deadly gunfire of the Dewey. "Who said the Yanks couldn't stop their pesky undersea wasps?" chattered Bill Witt joyously. "If they just let us loose long enough we'll show 'em how to kill poison with poison." Mike Mowrey was in great glee.
Although it was wintertime, a new brand of boy keen to play a global sport was in a baseball diamond practicing a sundry of soccer maneuvers from kicks and stops to stylized manipulations of balls. She parked outside the diamond and got out.
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