So I had Paladin saddled, and crossed the ford, meaning to be back long ere sunset.

The commanding officer reconnoitred, getting up to his neck in water, and found the ford considerably out of position and deeper than he had hoped, but he brought his men together in fours and, ordering each section to link arms to prevent the swirling waters carrying them out to sea, led them across without a casualty.

When we reached the second ford, about one in the afternoon, we found that the bank was not yet made passable for the wagons and artillery, so we drew up along the shingle until this could be done.

And when its force is spent, and unsupply'd, The residue with mounds may be restrain'd, And dry-shod we may pass the naked ford.

He must guard all these fords, and we must fight for any one or two of them that we need to cross by.

The left bank, by which the Americans approached, is level; that on the right is also level for a short distance back, but beyond this narrow plain a bank fifty feet in height commands the ford and the intervening flat, while both banks are fringed with a thick undergrowth.

He and his pilgrims looked and wondered, as we do still, upon the great tower said to have been built by Gundulph as a fortress to hold the ford, which, altered though it has been more than once, is still something at which one can only admire.

Still firingstill working with all his heart in the deadly play, Jack sidles to the officer and cries out: "Captain, I know a ford that will take us across above the stone bridge.

He can point out the fords of a hundred rivers; he can guide you in safety through a hundred trackless woods.

Orders were issued by Daniel H. Wells, styling himself "Lieutenant-General, Nauvoo Legion," to stampede the animals of the United States troops on their march, to set fire to their trains, to burn the grass and the whole country before them and on their flanks, to keep them from sleeping by night surprises, and to blockade the road by felling trees and destroying the fords of rivers, etc.

Cuculain was accounted the greatest and most skillful warrior of his time, and bards for ages after told how he kept the ford.

Early in July, 1781, the British army marched from Williamsburg, and encamped on the banks of the James River, so as to cover a ford leading to the island of Jamestown.

"Don't try the upper ford!" Carolyn June looked around and threw up her hand, motioning toward the north.

But the treacherous paymaster kept them waiting till after day-light, by which means the prince was left with very few troops to defend the ford.

" Alone and lightened, I made my way in the darkness to the road which we had left when we began to seek the ford.

It was upon a delicious summer morning that a youth approached the ford of a small river, near the Royal castle of Plessis-les-Tours, in ancient Touraine.

crossing the River That runns beneath your orchard, and ith darke, Their headstrong horses missing the ford overthrew them

It stands on the banks of the river Lea, and derives its name from the Saxon word Cing and ford, (signifying the king's ford,) there having formerly been a ford here; the adjoining meadows being designated the king's meads, and the Lea, the king's stream.

It was easier, too, for Capital to be wooed and won into making a picnic in these mountain solitudes than when high water stayed the fords and drifting snow the Sierran trails.

They came down, now, on the other side of the Cliff, and struck the ford.

Dartford Bridge, which already in the Middle Ages had supplanted ford and ferry, happily remains to the extent of about a third of the width of the two pointed arches which touch the banks.

Here she discerned the untried gray brigadesatom-small on nature's face, but with Ewell, Early, Longstreet, and other such to lead themholding the frequent fords, from Union Mills up to Lewis's.

The left of General Hooker's line, nearest the river, was at least five miles in advance of Chancellorsville, and commanded Banks's Ford, thereby shortening fully one-half the distance of General Sedgwick's march from Fredericksburg, by enabling him to use the ford in question as a place of crossing to the south bank, and uniting his column with the main body.

If we don't overtake herand that hoss of hers sure travels wonderful fast, somethin' wonderful, yes, ma'am, by Godexcuse me, ladyit's sure surprisin' the way that skinny little hoss of hers will travelwhy, I c'n take you acrost the ford.

Bruce caused his men to lie down to take some sleep, at a place about half a mile distant from the river, while he himself, with two attendants, went down to watch the ford, through which the enemy must needs pass before they could come to the place where King Robert's men were lying.