And now a severe skirmishing took place, in which Macbeth, though feebly supported by those who called themselves his friends, but in reality hated the tyrant and inclined to the party of Malcolm and Macduff, yet fought with the extreme of rage and valour, cutting to pieces all who were opposed to him, till he came to where Macduff was fighting.

The controversy began seriously, after some preliminary skirmishing in the newspapers and lighter reviews, with Mr. Churchill Babington's Mr. Macaulay's Characters of the Clergy in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century Considered, published shortly after the appearance of the History.

For several hours sharp skirmishing went on, and Essex was forced to halt his army at Hungerford.

According to his usual gallant custom, as the army retired with forced marches towards the Alps, Bayard took command of the rear-guard, and as the Spaniards followed day by day he bore all the brunt of the constant skirmishing which took place.

Guess we had better do a little skirmishing about.

Continuous skirmishing ensued throughout the rest of the dayStuart's object being to occupy the enemy, and divert attention from the infantry movement in his rear.

Some slight skirmishing had taken place, but no general forward movement was made until the 14th, when the rattle of small arms, the yells of the savages, and the deep boom of the mortars and howitzers told that the battle was on.

Opposite to it he began to advance the vineae towards the mountain, and to throw up a mound, with great labour and continual skirmishing.

The Indians did not have the numbers to oppose so formidable a body of good fighters, and only ventured on a little very long range and harmless skirmishing with the vanguard.

We cease our perpetual skirmishing at the outposts, and go inward to the citadel.