Our task, in short, was not only to fight, but also to fraternise.

But would we fraternise successfully?

Between the sentinel peaks that towered above the valley black battalions of storm cloud were fraternising, joining forces, coalescing into a vast and formidable army of ominous aspect.

What need for the soldier and the man of science to fraternise just now?

They are fraternising with the natives of the Southadopting their customs and even their faith.

From his earliest youth he had a taste for roving and fraternising with gipsies and other vagrants.

His dogs and mine, being old friends, rapidly fraternise, and we determine on a hunt. 'Let's try the old patch, Anthony!'

An officer of Chasseurs was shot, and his men ran away, the greater part, it is said, into the wine-shops, where they fraternised with the patriots, who offered them drink.

They are your brothers because they fraternised and threw up the butt-ends of their muskets.

According to Citizen Térifocq "the Freemasons of Paris will call to their aid the direst vengeance; the Masons of all the provinces of France will follow their example; everywhere the brothers will fraternise with the troops which are marching on to help Paris.

The soldiers charged with the recovery of the pieces of artillery fraternise with the people and the National Guard.

He questioned and listened, everybody fraternised, and not being sure yet what they thought, everyone felt that they thought alike.

Tom was their eldest child, a hearty, strong boy, from the first given to fighting with and escaping from his nurse, and fraternising with all the village boys, with whom he made expeditions all round the neighbourhood.

But the Cantabs, and a couple of gallant Oxford boating men who had fraternised with them, testified their admiration in their simple honest way, by putting down their pipes whenever they saw Valencia coming, and just lifting their hats when they met her close.

During popular movements in Germany and Russia, the party of freedom has sometimes hoped that the troops would come over to their sidewould "fraternise," as the expression goes.

There can be no "fraternising" with Fritz until he realises that he has been fooled by his War Lords; and his awakening is a long way off.

"THEN COME OUT HERE AND FRATERNISE.

On the way back, Martyn fraternised with a Mr. Methuen, a Cambridge tutor with a reading party, who has, I am sorry to say, arrived at the house VIS-A-VIS to ours, on the other side of the cove.

Of course my monopoly of the hero soon ended, and as I had no acquaintances there, and the young ones had been absorbed into games, or had fraternised with some one, I betook myself to explorations in company with Jane, who had likewise been left out.

This had taken place in the preceding month, and I naturally marvelled that the unpretending, simple man could be that victorious champion, but for the time being we were there plain citizens, and, American fashion, the Major-General and the Corporal shook hands and fraternised on equal terms.

Instead of hearing the bishop, a famous and eloquent man, he preferred to sit on a bare bench in the obscure little meeting-house, where he fraternised cordially with the dusky company we found there.

My veteran knew the pikes and the by-paths, and we fraternised with the warmth usual among foemen who at last have become friends.

We fraternised, of course.

My house at the corner of the large square, now the Piazza dell Indipendenza, was almost immediately under the walls and the guns of the Fortezza da Basso; but I felt sure that the troops would simply do nothing; might very possibly fraternise with the people; but would in no case burn a cartridge for the purpose of keeping the Grand Duke on his throne.

At the same time there was no sort of manifestation of any inclination to fraternise with the revolutionists.