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My European friend was here unfortunately taken ill, and, as the natives were evidently more numerous than I expected to have found them, I was sorry to lose his services at this period; he however faithfully promised to await my return, and I thus knew that I had a point d'appui to retire on in the event of anything taking place.
"'Here this won't do! he said. 'We've got to get these lads feeling better! He was talking more to himself than to anyone else, I think. And he went exploring around. He got into what was left of that chateau and I can tell you it wasn't much! The Germans had been using it as a point d'appui a sort of rallying-place, sir and our guns had smashed it up pretty thoroughly.
He would destroy the point d'appui which Rome had acquired in South-western Asia, and so at once diminish her power and augment the strength and glory of Persia. The interference of Chosroes in the affairs of a country so distant as Western Arabia involved considerable difficulties; but his expedition was facilitated by an application which he received from a native of the district in question.
Indeed, it is evident that our special study has a very close connection with the philosophic inquiry. What philosophy wants is something intuitively certain as its starting-point, some point d'appui for its construction. The errors incident to the process of reasoning do not greatly trouble it, since these can, in general, be guarded against by the rules of logic.
In brief, the whole narrative concerts well with the idea of a band of emigrants carried on the breast of the "Black Tide," who first make the circuit of the outlying fringe of islands, then enter the mainland at Yamato, and finally sail down the Inland Sea, using the small islands off its northern shore as points d'appui for expeditions inland.
Along the thirty-mile front from Tolmino to the sea there is a continuous wall of defensive works, flanked on the north by the fortified position of Tolmino, and on the south by the formidable Carso Plateau, while Gorizia constitutes the central Austrian point d'appui, having been converted into a modern fortress with a girdle of exterior forts supplemented by advanced batteries provided by armored cars on which the latest types of howitzers are mounted.
The English Government was continually advised by its agents in Italy to make Sicily, which was wholly in its power, the point d'appùi for a really great intervention in the destinies of the peninsula.
"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.
Thus after the war with China in 1894-95, she opened by her Treaty of Peace four ports in the Yangtsze Valley region, Soochow, Hangchow, Chungking and Shasi; that is, at the two extreme ends of the valley she established politico-commercial points d'appui from which to direct her campaign.
The nag being represented in a rampant or rearing posture, the tail, which is prolonged till it touches the ground, appears to form a point d'appui, and gives the firmness of a tripod to the figure, without which it would be difficult to conceive, placed as the feet are, how the courser could maintain his ground without tumbling backwards.
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