"Retaking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forever." He is personally a very devout Catholic, but apparently has seldom or never allowed himself to be politically dictated to by the Vatican. When he learned of the recent ignominious defeat of his armies by the Serbians and of the retaking of Belgrade, the old man first burst into a furious rage and then sat down with elbows on the table, his head in his hands, and prayed for forgiveness and ...
— The Note-Book of an Attache - Seven Months in the War Zone • Eric Fisher Wood
... by way of Champagne rather than by that of Picardy, in order to deceive the king. Scarcely had he arrived in Champagne when he heard of the retaking of Lagny and Corbeil. So soon as his back was turned, the League thus showed its impotence to retain the advantage which his genius had won. Corbeil, which had cost him a month of hard work, was recaptured in two days. Lagny fell almost as quickly. Earnestly ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... could not stand at all before him, but just as on the first day they came on with the fierce rebel yell, hurling themselves upon superior numbers, taking the cannon of their enemy, losing them, and retaking them and losing them ...
— The Guns of Shiloh • Joseph A. Altsheler
... impracticable of execution in one phrase, and there being no opportunity of retaking breath until the close of the passage, it was altered in the later ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
... Alderson, organized a powerful counter-attack with his own brigade and some of the nearest available units. He was called upon to control, with only his brigade staff, parts of battalions from six separate divisions which were quite new to the ground. Although the attack did not succeed in retaking St. Julien, it effectually checked ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various
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