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It was the intention of Ibrahim to break through the rules accepted by the White Nile traders, and to establish himself at Shooa, which, although claimed by Debono's people, would form an excellent point d'appui for operations towards the unknown south.
"I'll tell them not to despair after I've converted them," said Miss Vance. "Will you let me use you as a 'point d'appui', Mr. Beaton?" "Any way you like. If you're really going to see them, perhaps I'd better make a confession. I left your banjo with them, after I got it put in order." "How very nice! Then we have a common interest already." "Do you mean the banjo, or " "The banjo, decidedly.
Paul Cézanne is a Primitive among modern painters, inasmuch as he discards the flamboyant rhetoric and familiar points d'appui of the schools and achieves a certain naïveté. The efforts of Moussorgsky were analogous. He employed leading motives charily, and as he disliked intricate polyphony, his music moves in massive blocks, following the semi-detached tableaux of the opera.
The Bible thus afforded a point d'appui for the mystical tendencies now becoming universally prominent a point d'appui lacking to the earlier movements of the same kind that were so constantly arising during the Middle Ages proper.
Tibbets had possessed himself of the two volumes of the "History of Human Error," he had necessarily established that hold upon my father which hitherto those lubricate hands of his had failed to effect. He had found what he had so long sighed for in vain, his point d'appui, wherein to fix the Archimedean screw. He fixed it tight in the "History of Human Error," and moved the Caxtonian world.
"Is it possible?" we said, our heart beginning to sing again. "Was all that necessary?" "I don't see how one could do it otherwise. The story opens, as no doubt you remember tea? in the boiler room of the laundry." "Yes," we said, moving our leg "no, thank you." "So you see the only possible point d'appui was to begin with a description of the inside of the boiler." We nodded.
Moreover, practical means of communication to and by these support platoons were likely to prove, in event of need, negligible. They were, in fact, isolated in places themselves not defensible and equally remote from company and battalion commanders. This situation was bad enough as point d'appui for an advance; to resist a counter-attack or raid it was deplorable.
The left was more open; but the West Wood formed a strong point d'appui, and beyond the wood a low ridge, rising above Nicodemus Run, gave room for several batteries; while the Potomac was so close that the space available for attack on this flank was much restricted. The ground could thus be held by a comparatively small number of men, and a large reserve set free for the counterstroke.
The British were in the woods once and had to come out; but they had learned that before they could get a proper point d'appui they must methodically "clean up" a small grove, a neighboring cemetery, an intricate maze of trenches called the Quadrangle, and a few other outlying obstacles. In the first rush a lot of Tyneside Scots were marooned from joining in the retreat.
The capture of this feebly-fortified gulf, which the Russians rapidly strengthened, procured for them in case of success an essential point d'appui beyond the Balkan, where depots could be established in advance for the army intending to cross those mountains: in case of failure, no one was compromised, not even the small corps which had been debarked, since it had a safe and certain retreat to the shipping.
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