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The progress of the besiegers induced them to risk an assault, in which they were repulsed, after a hard-fought struggle: and during the following night John Justiniani made a great sortie, during which his workmen cleared the ditch, and his soldiers filled the tower with combustible materials and burned it to the ground.

" John Stevens' cheek reddened at the delicate insinuation against his courage, and he responded: "Have I not, on more than one hard-fought field, established my claim to courage?"

The loss on each side was nearly the same; but the glory of this hard-fought day remained on the side of Spinola, who proved himself a worthy successor of the great duke of Parma, and an antagonist with whom Maurice might contend without dishonor.

I need not tell the survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result from no distrust of them; but, feeling that valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss that would have attended the continuation of the contest, I have determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen.

On many a hard-fought field Lee was conspicuous, battling for his native State as much as for the Union.

It is the vanquished's praises that I sing, And this is the toast I choose: "A hard-fought failure is a noble thing; Here's to the men who lose!" Anonymous.

Like the scene in Mrs. Dane's Defence, this is practically a piece of judicial dramaa hard-fought cross-examination.

My old master had two brothers: the oldest, Thomas Helm, was a Captain in the United States Army, and had been in many hard-fought battles.

It fired the French army with a wonderful enthusiasm, and untrained as they were, they beat back the invaders at the hard-fought field of Valmy and saved the French Republic.

No desperate adventure or hard-fought action stand to his credit.

But at length they were fighting their way up the choked East Cañon, starting fierce gray wolves from their lairs in the rocks and hearing at every rod of their hard-fought way the swift and unnerving song of the coiled rattlesnake.

It was one of the most bloody and hard-fought battles which history records.

The plain, south of Dresden, was the scene of the hard-fought battle between Napoleon and the allied armies, in 1813.

The Roundheads had brought up Cromwell's Ironsides, the victors in many a hard-fought field, against the apprentice boys of London.

It is only necessary here to say, that, after some hard-fought and honorable fields, Miranda and his fellow-officers were completely successful.

Although Hamilton had made up his mind to retire, he intended to march out with flying colors, as became the victor on a hard-fought field.

For the gardens, they may chiefly be described as triumphs of Nature over Art,our New England horticulture being, on the contrary, the triumph of Art over Nature, after a hard-fought battle.

Regulars were the only troops who could be trusted to wear out their foes in a succession of weary and hard-fought campaigns.

The courage and efficiency which have often been displayed by its officers and men in hard-fought engagements with Moro outlaws or with organized bands of thieves and brigands have been beyond praise.

(The victorious general was returning to his native city after many hard-fought campaigns with his staff officers.)

(After many hard-fought campaigns, the victorious general, with his staff officers, was approaching his native city.)

It was this legion which won the decisive battle of Carabobo, June 26, 1821, going into action 1100 strong and leaving 600 on that hard-fought field.

The weapons with which we have gained our most important victories, which should be handed down as heirlooms from father to son, are not the sword and the lance, but the bush-whack, the turf-cutter, the spade, and the bog-hoe, rusted with the blood of many a meadow, and begrimed with the dust of many a hard-fought field.

With the King at their head, who had led them to victory on so many hard-fought fields, the Danes drove back their savage foes time after time, literally hewing their way through their ranks with sword and battle-axe.