218 examples of relays in sentences

He also sent horsemen forward along his line of march, with orders to the local authorities to bring stores of provisions and refreshment of every kind to the roadside, and to have relays of carriages ready for the conveyance of the wearied soldiers.

So now I, in my turn, have the honour to inform you that, anticipating this call, I have had relays of detectives waiting in this hotel day and night, with instructions to guard the doors as soon as you were shown up to my rooms.

They are taken by relays of men or horses, sometimes both.

"If relays of eyes were to be hired like post-horses, I would never admit any but select companions: they afford a constant variety of entertainment, and is almost the only one pleasing in the enjoyment and inoffensive in the consequence.

Besides this preamble, they farther commanded, that all due honour should be shown to the three ambassadors of the khan, and service performed to them in all the countries and districts subject to his authority, as to himself in person; that all necessary relays of horses and escorts, and their expences, and every thing needful should be supplied to them freely and gratuitously.

But now, confining our attention to M. Micheletwho is quite sufficient to lead a man into a gallop, requiring two relays, at least, of fresh readers,we in Englandwho know him best by his worst book, the book against Priests, &c., which has been most circulatedknow him disadvantageously.

And this wilderness can be safely traversed only by having relays of fountains, or stages for refreshment.

Sayri Tupac, anxious to see something of the world, went directly to Lima, traveling in a litter made of rich materials, carried by relays chosen from the three hundred Indians who attended him.

He battered down part of it, fired the props of his mine and so brought down more, and sent troops by relays to escalade the breach.

Travelling was done by palki or by "push-push"-a box-like carriage on four wheels, in which the traveller was forced to recline, and which relays of coolies pushed before them.

With all these drawbacks, I was glad to find the population, although dirty, decidedly friendlyrather too much so, indeed; for the little whitewashed room was crowded to overflowing the greater part of the day with relays of visitors, who apparently looked upon us as a kind of show got up for their entertainment.

As she seemed not to care how much money was spent, relays of men, many men, were put on to work night as well as day.

He is always setting out on a fresh scent: there are always relays of topics; the harness is put to, and he rattles away as delightfully and as briskly as ever.

As the speed must be rapid, there must be frequent relays.

I have shown elsewhere how necessary it is to proceed absolutely systematically in the arrangements for relays of supplies, since the operative capabilities of the army depend on this system.

One of the servants, walking up and down the table-cloth with brandy and relays of vegetables, was drunk very early in the game and had to be thrown out.

There is now a regular communication by water between this town, London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Bristol; to the three former places, goods are delivered on the fourth day, upon a certainty; there being relays of horses stationed every fifteen miles.

Article 4.2.3: Switches and relays.

When there are more than 350 saloon passengers, each meal has to be served in two relays.

Judge Blount in describing the experiences of Messrs. Wilcox and Sargent naïvely makes the statement that: "The tourists were provided at Rosales by order of Aguinaldo with a military escort, 'which was continued by relays all the way to Aparri.'"

And he was just a little ashamed of his own recent impatience at Najib, when he remembered how the superintendent was pushing the relays of consignments along.

This wheel the villagers, working by relays, cause to revolve with great rapidity till fire is produced by friction.

All the Jesuits, and prize bulls by every steamer, relays of papal agents, and Corpus-Christi processions in the streets of Boston, will hardly lift the shoulders of the great protesting country, as it turns to stare from its tilling, steaming, pioneering, emancipating task.

We started out quite early in the morning, with relays of horses to meet us on the way.

The wheels were covered thick with India-rubber; relays had been provided, and Monckton and his party rolled along day and night to Liverpool.

218 examples of  relays  in sentences