58 examples of re-forming in sentences

Into this close and desperate affray Sir Benedict spurred, striving with voice and hand to re-form his broken ranks, hewing him a path by dint of sword until he had won beside the Abbess.

Then did Sir Benedict, laughing loud and joyous, haste to re-form his swaying ranks, the bloody gap in his column closed up and Sir Pertolepe's knights, hemmed in thus, smote and were smitten and but scant few were they that won them free.

But the rear-guard was saved, and, with a hedge of bristling pikes behind, Sir Benedict's sore-battered company marched on along the forest-road and breathed again, the while their pursuers, staggered in their onset, paused to re-form ere they thundered down upon that devoted rear-guard once more.

So saying, he closed his vizor and rode away to muster his chivalry to meet their new assailants the while Sir Benedict fell to re-forming his scanty ranks of pikemen and archers.

We soon got this position, and then our troops, ascending some spurs, poured a destructive fire into the defile and so harassed the Turks re-forming for a counterattack as to render feeble their efforts to regain what they had lost.

The mass of men, tormented and writhing, was trying, by a common instinct, to reach some clearer ground where they could re-form.

Why should their leader urge them to break, and now shriek to them to re-form?

They would not re-form.

" "Why, that's the company that was out of hand when we advanced!" "Colonel Flanagan reports, sir, that the company took the whole brunt of the attack, and gave the square time to re-form.

If he did he would hardly adduce such an argument for its presence as the following: "The melting of the caps on the one hand and their re-forming on the other affirm the presence of water-vapour in the Martian atmosphere, of whatever else that air consists" (p. 162).

Here the country was more open, so, re-forming our scattered line, with skirmishers in advance, we drove the rebels before us, the Horse Artillery playing on them in the open and bringing down scores.

The men of each platoon or squad, as the case may be, advance and, moving to the right and left, take their proper places in line; each unit assembling on the leading element of the column and re-forming in line.

The din, the smoke, the crashthe cry for quarter, mingled with the shout of victory, the flying enemyare all commingled in my mind, but leave no trace of clearness or connection between them; and it was only when the column wheeled to re-form that I awoke from my trance of maddening excitement, and perceived that we had carried the position and cut off the guns of the enemy.

Under his rule the Russian army began to re-form, and the situation improved.

In spite of the noise thus made there was no challenge, and the little body of men, re-forming into an irregular line, presently arrived at the outer edge of the willow flat.

CHAPTER XII ARTHUR FALLS AMONG LAWYERS Arthur ended his far from orderly retreat at the Auditorium, and in the sitting room of his suite there set about re-forming his lines, with some vague idea of making another attack later in the dayone less timid and blundering.

For the restthey were up now, forming into groups, talking excitedly, dissolving again, and re-forming.

" It took Mr. Lewisham a minute or so to re-form the regiment of his mind, disordered by its headlong pursuit of Chaffery's flying arguments.

Pappenheim's unexpected appearance revived the drooping courage of the Imperialists, and the Duke of Friedland quickly availed himself of the favorable moment to re-form his line.

FRANKL, PAUL T. Form and re-form: a practical handbook of modern interiors.

FRANKL, PAUL T. Form and re-form: a practical handbook of modern interiors.

The vessel, all bristling with flags, replied so valiantly to the English attacks, that the rest of the squadron had time to re-form around it; the English went and anchored before Madras.

When the theorists in each camp manage to push so hard that both can no longer be maintained, the old organization of society breaks up into new units, immediately to re-form in some new way.

"For-wardguide centreMARCH!" Slowly we move up the hill; the line sways in curves; we halt and re-form.

The rebels at the battery are not in line; some try to drag away the guns; swords flash in the hot sun; ... the rebels re-form

58 examples of  re-forming  in sentences