85 Words to use with counter

A regiment of the 8th Brigade sent to reinforce the 6th Brigade on their left got within 800 yards of the hill, when the guns about Bireh and Ramallah opened on them and they were compelled to withdraw, and a Turkish counter-attack forced our forward line back slightly in the afternoon.

The affair with the Queen Regent had one good effect, it separated the desirable from the undesirable in the social scale, compelling the latter to set up an establishment of their own as a counter attraction, and as their only hope of having any society at all.

disclaim &c (deny) 536; ignore, repudiate; recant &c 607; divest oneself, break off. countermand, counter order; do away with; sweep away, brush away; throw overboard, throw to the dogs; scatter to the winds, cast behind. dismiss, discard; cast off, turn off, cast out, cast adrift, cast out of doors, cast aside, cast away; send off, send away, send packing, send about one's business; discharge, get rid of &c (eject) 297; bounce

If their petition is to be noticed, Congress ought to wait till counter applications were made, and then they might have the subject more fairly before them.

There was, however, undoubtedly one essential difference between the British draft and the American counter draft.

Aldous Huxley (A); 2Dec55; R160842. Point counter point.

The chronicle says that the barons advised resistance, but that the king preferred negotiation, and "sent the Abbot of St. Denis, the which was an exceeding wise man," to Hastings, who, "after long parley, and by reason of large gifts and promises," consented to stop his cruisings, to become a Christian, and to settle in the count-ship of Chartres, "which the king gave him as an hereditary possession, with all its appurtenances.

Behaviour may be defined as the resultant of the organism's pressure against the environment's counter pressure until there is a sufficient reduction of the specifically exciting intravisceral pressure.

It is hard for those accustomed only to treat of civilized warfare to realize the intolerable nature of these ravages, the fact that the loss and damage to the whites was out of all proportion to the strength of the Indian war parties, and the extreme difficulty in dealing an effective counter stroke.

Nevertheless, here, too, strong counter currents are at work.

For the settlement of our northeastern boundary the proposition promised by Great Britain for a commission of exploration and survey has been received, and a counter project, including also a provision for the certain and final adjustment of the limits in dispute, is now before the British Government for its consideration.

We held some big 'stuff' for counter battery work, and our fire was effective.

"Counterroil, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; Counterrolment, a counter account."Ib.

You are not really going to marry Herbert Lathrop, are you?" A queer little shadow, almost like a veil, passed over Carlotta's face at this counter charge.

R655132. Point count bidding.

Barrere instantly sent for Payen, the national agent, and informed him that a new counter-revolutionary sect had started up, and that its partizans distinguished themselves by wearing wigs made of light hair cut from the heads of the guillotined aristocrats.

All the country between the Tees and the Tyne was held by the Bishop of Durham; and he was reputed a count palatine, having a separate government.

The no 'count boy.

There is getting to be too much of this count thing.

"Count thumbs and all," added the master.

Even Herald's reportage consisted of allegations and counter allegations from interested parties with out any indepth coverage.

The Indian attack was relentless, and could neither be avoided, parried, nor met by counter assault.

He had on a previous occasion tried the same device, and when the assembly had dispersed he had arrested the chiefs, called a counter assemblage of his partisans, and got up a counter petition, which he sent to the Sultan.

Counter-attempts of the committee of White Colonists.

'FORTY-ONE Confusion and disorderStrafford's army disbanded, but still in the countryPlot to seize Dublin CastlePlot transpiresSir Phelim O'Neill seizes CharlemontAttack upon the Protestant settlersBarbarities and counter barbarities.

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