Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 19, 2025
Terrified of the struggling hordes about the railway stations even more than of the advancing Germans, deprived of her motor cars, which had been commandeered by the Government, she did not know which way to turn or even how to get into communication with her one possible protector.
The Signaling Company in the forward lines was situated in a very damp and very cold cellar of a half-destroyed house. In it were two or three tables commandeered from upstairs or from some houses around.
Still the majority of the colonial farmers remained at home, and those who joined the Boer ranks at the commencement of the war were, as a rule, commandeered or called up.
He commandeered an engine and box car and ran out to the place and took the man into the field hospital himself and operated inside an hour, saving the man's life. For his gallantry in going to treat wounded men at posts which were under fire, the French commander remembered him with a citation.
Nobody objecting, we commandeered the two horses that had belonged to the Moreñas. One of them we packed with our few effects, and turned the other over to Yank. Thus, trudging afoot, Johnny and I saw our last of Italian Bar. Thirty years later I rode up there out of sheer curiosity. Most of the old cabins had fallen in. The Bella Union was a drear and draughty wreck.
They were undoubtedly the best commandeering agents the Boers ever had. Thousands of Boers and Colonists were from time to time commandeered by the stringent and drastic obligations imposed upon them by these proclamations. On the other hand they facilitated matters very greatly for the enemy.
He played at being a limited monarch but his sympathies were naturally with the riffled aristocrats the nobility whose privileges had been taken away, their estates commandeered, their chateaux fired or sacked, and themselves obliged to flee for their lives to the protection of the foreigner.
Stone looked up to smile at the boy's speech, but he returned his gaze to the golden-trimmed gown. "Of course," he said, "it is improbable that she took this off before she left the house that night. I opine she threw a big cloak round her and rushed out to the house of some friend. Likely she found a taxicab or even commandeered some waiting private car for her flight.
'Why, so that we shouldn't warn the other army, you silly, Alice said, and Oswald was so upset by what she said, that he forgot to be properly angry with her for the wrong word she used. 'But we ought to warn them at home, she said suppose the Moat House was burned down, and all the supplies commandeered for the foe? Alice turned boldly to the soldier. 'DO you burn down farms? she asked.
They were going home for a ten days' leave after a year at the front and were trying to forget the war. There was also a lounge-room and a dining-saloon, but bunks there were also already commandeered by the strategic military. It could be a worse night to walk the deck. To see what was doing a man would want to walk the deck anyway.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking