Do we say maneuver or manoeuvre

maneuver 95 occurrences

Again Beaumaroy had no defense; his nonplussed air confessed that maneuver, too.

This was not really her sincere opinion; she was playing up to Beaumaroy, convinced that he had opened some conversational maneuver.

It was not a cunning maneuver.

By some inexplicable maneuver he managed to clamber on to the bottom of the fuselage of the machine, astride of which he sat as if he was riding a horse.

All I could do was to maneuver, for I had no shells left

The French command at this point carried out a maneuver which will be recorded as a masterpiece in military history.

Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is IN and who is OUT, who is UP and who is DOWN, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and paves our way.

But unfortunately this year the Mapleton Academy, which had been promised to him for the winter term, had been taken away by a little maneuver of local politics and given to another, thus leaving him without resource.

A great golden lamp of a harvest moon was already coming up in the fading flush of the evening sky, and she promised herself much amusement in watching the result of her maneuver on James.

She gave no thought to any maneuver, practicable or fantastic, for stealing away with him, not even when, as the party broke up for the night it became evident that chance was not going so to favor them.

Alcatraz halted to catch the meaning of this new maneuver and saw the black approaching at a high-stepping trot as one determined to explore a danger but ready to instantly flee if it seemed a serious threat.

They were just coming into the Auteuil station as this extraordinary maneuver was accomplished.

When this portion of the disk has suffered too much from the enemy's fire, a simple maneuver gives it a half revolution, and the second aperture is then made use of.

To obviate this difficulty, the inventor partitions it internally in such a way as to leave only sufficient space to maneuver the guns.

This device, then, is particularly appropriate in all cases where there is a pressing need of light, for a single maneuver suffices to open the cock and effect a lighting of the burner.

The patrician partisans who were present attempted to rebuke this bold maneuver with expressions of disapprobation, but these expressions were drowned in the loud and long-continued bursts of applause with which the great mass of the assembled multitude hailed and sanctioned it.

The two ladies gave a cry of surprise, as though they had witnessed some impossible maneuver.

(Marching maneuver series, v.1)

The man-of-the-world; or, Ordering-in-French maneuver.

(Marching maneuver series, v.7)

(Marching maneuver series, v.10) © 14Feb41; A150498.

A Slight maneuver.

(Marching maneuver series, v.8)

The dog will then seize it and rush away in triumph, repeating the same maneuver, and evidently enjoying the practical joke.

This colloquy referred to a striking maneuver of the flagship Brooklyn early in the engagement at Santiago, which has been commented on before.

manoeuvre 311 occurrences

She tortured herself by reviewing minutely every little manoeuvre she had known of Stephen's practising to conceal his relation with her.

Roswell observed the change in his consort's line of sailing, slight as it was, and imitated the manoeuvre.

The manoeuvre of Daggett was begun under circumstances that scarcely admitted of any alternative, though it might be questioned if it were not the best expedient that offered.

Miss Fanny attributed this manoeuvre to a feeling very different from the real one; and clapping her hands more joyfully than ever, cried: "There you are!

Fanny greeted this manoeuvre with a sudden blow in the laugher's face, from her bouquet; and Redbud, forgetting her disquietude, laughed gaily at the merry cousins.

The glory of success, the fruit of consummate skill, was gained by Alexander; who, by an admirable manoeuvre, got possession of the town of Lagny-sur-Seine, under the very eyes of Henry and his whole army, and thus acquired the means of providing Paris with everything requisite for its defence.

This seems to be a manoeuvre like that of Lafitte when he refused to discount bills.

Aware of his inferiority, Charles, by a skilful manoeuvre, [Footnote 1: Rushworth, v. 222.

The advance was taken up and the manoeuvre repeated at fifty yards.

He had waited there until the footman returned after looking for Veronica in the drawing-room, and when he heard that she was not there, he turned to reach the staircase again and go up to his own bachelor's quarters, for he feared to meet Matilde and hoped to put off seeing her until dinner-time, when he might so manoeuvre as not to be left alone with her.

Upon seeing this manoeuvre, it was suspected that they might have a strong party concealed at the back of the point, to which they were anxious to decoy our people; the boat was therefore called alongside and armed and again sent after them.

This manoeuvre was evidently intended to decoy us into their power, and served to increase our caution.

It is one thing to lead 100,000 or perhaps 200,000 men in a rich country seamed with roads, and concentrate them for a battleit is another to manoeuvre 800,000 men on a scene of war stripped bare by the enemy, where all railroads and bridges have been destroyed by modern explosives.

From time to timefinancial grounds unfortunately prevent it being an annual affaira corps manoeuvre is held, which also cannot be regarded as training for the command of "masses."

Flank marches in army formation will have some value, even apart from any training in the commissariat system, since the simultaneous crossing of several marching columns on parallel by-roads is not an easy manoeuvre in itself.

It was found easy to mold them into what was desired; and they went through their work not without a sort of manoeuvre.

The uproar that attended the onset, had caught the attention of Fid, who, the instant he saw the nature of the sports below, abandoned his companion on the yard, and slid downwards to the deck by the aid of a backstay, with about as much facility as that caricature of man, the monkey, could have performed the same manoeuvre.

By the Lord, I will; and he may write home an account of this manoeuvre, too, in his next despatches.

But your brilliant manoeuvre may, we hope, effectually put a stop to the danger of his marrying Miss Templeton, and since I am convinced he is in love with her, why"Mr.

The haze was thickening, so there was little danger of the people aboard the launch noticing the manoeuvre.

The latter was evidently taken aback by this unexpected manoeuvre, and for a moment her searchlight lost the launch.

"There isn't the slightest reason why they should not go to walk together; why do they manoeuvre with all the transparency of ostriches?"

The manoeuvre brought her on to the starboard side of the Frenchman, and the trim little frigate seemed to heel right over under the crashing broadside which burst from the gaping ports.

Pour le discréditer, ses adversaires politiques le représentèrent aux élections comme athée; c'était une manoeuvre.

The King established as far from Paris as possible, Lafayette was to arrange a manoeuvre of his troops at a point near the royal residence, and once arrived there, he was to rapidly and secretly march the trustiest of his regiments to the King's rescue, surround the palace, and call upon the army for a new oath of fidelity to the monarch and constitution.

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