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The tennis-court was rolled and marked; fishing-tackle was inspected and repaired; in view of the possibility of dancing, the piano was tuned; bridge deficiencies were made good at the local stationer's; and gardeners and gamekeepers hurried about their tasks, while flapping game-birds signalled to trembling trout that the enemy was mobilising for the yearly campaign.
It was assumed he would probably make a push for Brest, where the French main fleet was mobilising under the Comte de Tourville, and Killigrew had orders to follow him if he got through the Straits.
What is it they are always doing to the armies in Europe? mobilising them? Well, Verena has been mobilised, and this has been headquarters." "And shall you go to the Music Hall to-night?" "For what do you take me? I have no desire to be shrieked at for an hour." "No doubt, no doubt, Miss Olive must be in a state," Ransom went on, rather absently.
A minister of war who combined knowledge of war and of the Volunteers with a serious purpose would be able in two months to infuse the whole Volunteer force with the right ideal, and then, by mobilising them for another two months, to transform them into an army. It is for the Navy and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to secure the four months that are needed. March 1st, 1900
Mr Gedye, selecting these articles with a care that was slow torture to his customer, opined that the weather was settled at last, and trusted it would assist the Russians in mobilising. The slower Mr Gedye became, the more ardently he repeated an expression of hope that the Russians would hurry up.
What do you think of that? But as the speaker could not quite keep the perpendicular, and found it absolutely impossible to stand to attention, it was evident that he had had more than one 'sup, whether he had had a 'bite' or not. All along the line, sad to say, 'treating' had been plentiful, and this was the result. =Mobilising at Aldershot.= Multiply this scene a hundred times.
"But," I said, beginning to feel that horrid array of tears mobilising again, "that was some time before he gave me the lines " "Don't beat about the bush," interrupted Banana-Skin. "Did you feel that you hated him?" The question was not answered at once.
Altsheler, who was in Vienna the day war was declared on Servia, in Munich when war was declared against Russia, and in England when the British forces were mobilising, has given in three volumes the impressions he gained at the places of action during the world crisis. The Guns of Europe
Austria's insane demands are part of the plot; they are meant to drag Russia in. Russia must protest; she must mobilise. Germany is secretly mobilising at this moment. She will declare war against Russia, strike at France through Belgium. She will appeal to us for our neutrality." "These are wonderful things you are saying, Mr. Norgate!"
When England was mobilising her forces after the treaty of San Stefano, and ordering into the Mediterranean a division of sepoys drawn from the three presidencies of her Indian Empire, Russia for her part was concerting an important diversion in the direction of the north-western frontier of that great possession.
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