276 examples of feints in sentences

Three feints were to be made at different points while the real attack was to be driven home at Cape Diamond.

They keep on with the tricks and feints of a departed age.

Mark made one or two feints of pushing her in, but at last held her firmly by the waist, while she looked in vain for the fabulous monster below.

They were amusing themselves after the fashion of blacks, with mock fights, feints, sudden wrestlings.

They were slapping one another, scuffling, making feints with knives or stones, all to an accompaniment of bragging, profanity, and loud laughter.

Each of the adversaries seemed to await some movement on the part of the other, and the Federal commander made heavy feints against both the Confederate right and left, with the view of discovering some weak point, or of inducing Lee to lay himself open to attack.

The feints and slight encounters preceding the battle of Fredericksburg are not of much interest or importance.

This consideration somewhat restored my courage, and after several feints to return, advances, stoppings, and panics, I was in the vault again, walking carefully round the stack of barrels, and fearing to see the glimmer of the candle fall upon that beard.

Now, Jack, will not her feints justify mine!

'No matter, she saidperhaps she might meet the chariot.' Another of her feints, I suppose: for how, or with whom, could any thing of this sort have been concerted since yesterday morning?

" He stopped in front of me, made one of his conversational feints by opening his mouth and shutting it again, then dived hastily for the companion, leaving me to search for sympathy in the moonlit night.

For convenience in instruction ASSAULTS are divided into SIMPLE ATTACKS, COUNTER ATTACKS, ATTACKS ON THE RIFLE, and FEINTS.

Feints are movements which threaten or simulate attacks and are made with a view to inducing an opening or parry that exposes the desired point of attack.

In double feints first one part of the body and then another is threatened and a third attacked.

When the men have become thoroughly familiar with the various foot movements, parries, guards, attacks, feints, etc., the instructor combines several of them and gives the commands in quick succession, increasing the rapidity and number of movements as the men become more skillful.

When the instructor is demonstrating the combinations, feints, returns, and parries the rapidity of his attack should be regulated by the skill of the pupil and no more force than is necessary should be used.

If the pupil exposes himself too much in the feints and parries, the instructor will, by an attack, convince him of his error; but if these returns be too swiftly or too strongly made the pupil will become overcautious and the precision of his attack will be impaired.

The Germans at that moment, if not actually advancing toward Antwerp, were skirmishing and making feints in every direction, with the ultimate disposition of their forces carefully concealed.

It had sadness, then, the sadness of wreckage; sadness against which he seemed to fence in his wordy feints and thrusts.

They have hardly been able to judge with certainty from the debates in Congress whether secession were a real danger, or only one of those political feints of which they have had such frequent experience.

In the last champion-match at Worcester, nearly the whole time was consumed in skilful feints and parryings, and it took five days to make fifty runs.

He generally played with the whip, making little feints at the mare, or slapping her lightly with the reins, or admonishing her in a familiar way; but on this occasion the heat or some other cause had rendered him less demonstrative than usual.

Animosities are endless; reconciliations are feints, and never is a former enemy regarded as a brother: they tear, they devour each other.

Three rushes were made simultaneouslytwo feints, and one led by Gordon himself.

Kilpatrick's snare of riders In zigzags mazed the land, Perplexed the pale Southsiders With feints on every hand; Vague menace awed the hiders In forts beyond command.

276 examples of  feints  in sentences