The five columns stayed in the field for four to five months, crossing and recrossing the various forks of the Red, climbing and descending the caprock, marching and countermarching and following a maddeningly desultory set of trails left by many independent bands of Indians. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)
Much panicky marching and countermarching ensued—so much, in fact, that a skeptical farmer observed drolly that the Rangers would undoubtedly win the war all by themselves “because no government could stand the expense of the shoe-leather we should cost it trying to follow them around.” ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)
That Thorn, who was marching and countermarching in osier beds, and other swampy places, was impressed with ❋ Unknown (2007)
We were eighteen months on service, marching and countermarching, and fighting almost every other day: to the world ❋ Unknown (2006)
With some ecclesiastics cut off from Videssos the city by barbarian invasion and perhaps slain, with others unable to cross from land Stylianos held to that controlled by Maleinos, and with still others caught by marching and countermarching armies, priests and prelates, monks and abbots were slow to come into the capital for the synod Kameniates had convened. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2005)
Armies had been marching and countermarching along this highway since the civil war began. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2005)
The marching and countermarching was of a refined stateliness, as if the pace were not a goose step but a peacock step; and the music was of an exquisitely plaintive and tender note, which seemed to grieve rather than exult; I believe it was the royal march which they were playing, but I am not versed in such matters. ❋ Unknown (2004)
This old cad is doubtless a sample of those generals that flourished in the old military school, when armies would manoeuvre and watch each other for months; now and then have a desperate skirmish, and, after marching and countermarching about the ‘Low Countries’ through a glorious campaign, retire on the first pinch of cold weather into snug winter quarters in some fat Flemish town, and eat and drink and fiddle through the winter. ❋ Unknown (2004)
In lecturing he hangs about the desk, leaning on it or flirting around the corners of it, then marching and countermarching in the rear of it. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Verona with his army, to recover from the injuries sustained in the winter, and provide necessaries for the summer; and thus the time available for the war would be wasted in marching and countermarching. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In their valedictory correspondence, John Adams and Jefferson exchanged a few wary references to the Missouri question, Adams writing, in a weird and powerful image, that he imagined “armies of Negroes marching and countermarching in the air, in shining armour.” ❋ Richard Brookhiser (2002)
He'd done too much marching and countermarching to have any exact notion of where he was. ❋ Turtledove, Harry (2002)
While Magruder was marching and countermarching, an incomplete order of battle was drawn up with much fumbling and difficulty in the tangle along Western Run. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)
But on the twenty-third, by rapid countermarching, the British managed to outmaneuver him again and cross the ford behind. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1997)
