Another rumour, from the extreme Left this time, was that a large armed force under the command of a well-known general, very high up in his career, was to assemble in the north at Lille, a strong contingent of Republicans were to join them to be ready to act.

" On May 8, President Wilson dispatched a reply to Germany's note, accepting the German promises as to the future conduct of submarine warfare, but refusing to regard them as contingent on any action between the United States and any other country.

They had a brilliant reception, rooms crowded, all the official world and a fair contingent from the Faubourg St. Germain.

He was forced to become the vassal of the king of Babylonia, and furnish a contingent to his army.

Permitting and encouraging her subject allies to furnish all their contingents in money, instead of part consisting of ships and men, the sovereign republic gained the double object of training her own citizens by constant and well-paid service in her fleets, and of seeing her confederates lose their skill and discipline by inaction, and become more and more passive and powerless under her yoke.

About sixty feet separated the two contingents at this time, the Chehalis men still continuing the march.

They are ordered to furnish their contingent for raising the siege of Alesia, G. vii.

The Venetians only despatched a small contingent under Carlo Montone and Diefebo d'Anguillari; accordingly, in the end, the whole burden of the struggle fell on Florence.

It had evidently been planned to stampede the entire contingent into the attack by having the secret committeemen take the lead from both ends and the middle.

Contingents of remarkable women invaded the chief tea-shops in Boulogne and caused a panic among the waitresses.

He was transferred to my contingent by order of Gen. Brown, as it was believed he would be of service to me.

Thereupon the victors pursued them, as they fled, this way and that, but neither killed nor captured any one; and then they kept watch of the separate contingents during the night and did not allow them to unite again.

'A relation,' he said, 'is not contingent with the contingency of feeling.

The chief danger was, of course, that the Germans would cross the river at Termonde in force and thus cut off the line of retreat towards the coast, forcing the whole Belgian army and the British contingent across the frontier of Holland.