A war with Sicily was fortunately terminated, releasing some additional force for employment against the Carthaginians; but for some time little headway was made by the Roman commanders, and when, in B.C. 207, the people were called upon to elect consuls, their affairs were still in a condition which caused serious anxiety.

The guild system is being preached widely in England where the defects of the present scheme are more obvious and the resulting labour situationor rather social situationis more fraught with danger than elsewhere, and already the restoration seems to have made considerable headway.

In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway.

In England the Italian interpretations of the literary criticism of Greece and Rome made slow headway against the established traditions of the middle ages.

Charity Lomax had shamed him into studying law, but notwithstanding an hour or so a day spent at old Judge Fenderson's office, he did not make remarkable headway in his legal studies.

Just before he came abreast of it, Wade under mighty headway flung into his favorite corkscrew spiral on one foot, and went whirling dizzily along, round and round, in a straight line.

Progression N. progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing &c v.; advance, advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march &c 266; rise; improvement &c 658.

These and other arguments, of the same utilitarian genus, are making perceptible headway.

Not a voice nor a bell smiting the air, where all will soon be outcry and confusion; only the fierce, busy diligence of the blaze, having all its own awful will, and making steadfast headway against the sleeping skill of men.

We made steady headway in the almost impenetrable and strongly held Argonne Forest, for, despite this reinforcement, it was our army that was doing the driving.

The engagement was short; we need not say that nobody surrendered; nobody ever gives up the ship in parlor or veranda debate: and yetas is generally the case in such affairstruth and justice made some unacknowledged headway.

Ideas do not make victorious headway by force of arms.

But she has been able to make no appreciable headway against her more acute partner, and her application for a monopoly of sugar-production was not favourably received, for Germany already had taken the beet industry well in hand.

Having two fresh horses, they made better headway than Miller had made coming out, and reached Wellington easily by three o'clock.

Yet against all these difficulties the military power of the Austrian Government began to make determined headway.

You know he promised this" There was a moment's pause, and movement of eye and hand, and then he spoke again, very softly: "Yes, and much more that can never be fulfilled, for already the cabin is in flames, the companion-way is closed, and the fire in the hold is making fearful headway.

Being a man of splendid proportions and a giant's strength, the Colonel was making gallant headway against the cowardly miscreants when his foot slipped and he was precipitated into the chilling waters of the mill-race at a point where the city fathers have allowed it to remain uncovered.

Shortly afterward, as I was making a lame and slow headway toward Horton Thicket, where I hoped to find a trail out, I heard Edd yelling, and I answered.