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Nancy, thou dost take fearful chances with thy soul." Nancy began to look a little anxious as she considered her conduct. "At any rate," she said defensively, "it is n't a graven image, and I have neither bowed down to it nor served it! I do try to be good, Dan, but it seemeth that the devil is ever at my elbow."
The command at Detroit and Malden was left to Colonel Procter, whose position was defensively secured by naval means; the ship "Queen Charlotte" and brig "Hunter" maintaining local control of the water. He was, however, forbidden to attempt operations distinctively offensive.
The doctrine of the "Fleet in being" as formulated and practised by Torrington and developed by Kempenfelt goes no further than this, that where the enemy regards the general command of a sea area as necessary to his offensive purposes, you may be able to prevent his gaining such command by using your fleet defensively, refusing what Nelson called a regular battle, and seizing every opportunity for a counterstroke.
The functions of a war vessel were these: Defensively, to attack ships that come to bombard our forts, to attack ships that come to blockade us, to attack ships convoying a landing party, to attack the enemy's fleet, to attack ships interfering with our commerce; offensively, to bombard an enemy's ports, to blockade an enemy, to convoy a landing party, to attack the enemy's fleet, to attack the enemy's commerce.
The Pasmers are the dullest and most selfish people in the world." "Oh, I don't think that's her character," said Miss Cotton, ruffling her feathers defensively. "Neither do I. She has no fixed character. No girl has. Nobody has. We all have twenty different characters more characters than gowns and we put them on and take them off just as often for different occasions.
"She wouldn't mind how I looked," said the young man, defensively. "Mebbe not." Uncle William was gathering together the trifles from the shelf and table, and knotting them in a table-spread. "You want to save this out?" he asked indifferently. It was a picture of the girl in an oval frame. The young man seized it. He was looking at it with warm eyes.
I sent back orders for him to fight defensively to save time, and that I would come up with reenforcements from the direction of Cog's Bridge, by the road which we had reached near Falling-Creek Church. The country was very obscure, and the maps extremely defective. By this movement I hoped General Slocum would hold Johnston's army facing west, while I would come on his rear from the east.
He seemed to notice my attitude and he remarked defensively for my benefit, "Only a patriotic act." His inspector by this time had finished a most minute examination.
This primitive cantonment which grew rapidly in strategical importance, was two years later made quite formidable defensively, and named Fort Zarah, in memory of the youngest son of Major General Curtis, who was killed by guerillas somewhere south of Fort Scott, Kansas, while escorting General James G. Blunt, of frontier fame during the Civil War.
Then, defensively, in answer to the expression on his face, she bridled: "I TOLD you I was keeping summer boarders now. I can't do both at once." "Of course not!" She threw him a reproachful glance. "You don't think I can ever do it?" "I didn't say so." "No; but you look it. I don't see why I can't. It isn't like singing. You don't have to have a voice for it.
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