This is the key execution phase that encompasses the occupation of the initial lodgments in the objective area. ❋ United States Army (1992)
He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles. ❋ Golding, William, 1911- (1954)
I promptly replied that I would sign no capitulation; that the city had been virtually in our possession from the time of the lodgments effected by Worth and ❋ J. F. Loubat (N/A)
If it were not for appearance and the difficulty of conveying the excreta without lodgments, an open gutter would be preferable to a closed pipe in the house. ❋ Various (N/A)
It is not my intention to tire the reader with an account of Liberia, for I presume that few are unacquainted with the thriving condition of those philanthropic lodgments, which hem the western coast of Africa for near eight hundred miles. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
In these great outlying colonies and lodgments of European nations in the East Indies and Africa, a stranger is commonly welcome to the hospitality of every foreigner. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
The Medical Corps did heroic service in keeping germs away, but cooks, clothing designers and other agencies contributed largely in the making of bodies too healthy to permit germ lodgments. ❋ William Allison Sweeney (N/A)
I never thought it prudent to exculpate those honorable emigrants who were consolidating the first colonial lodgments from the ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
Of Mr. Feuerstein's six weeks in Hoboken it is enough to say that they were weeks of storm and stress -- wretched lodgments in low boarding-houses, odd jobs at giving recitations in beer halls, undignified ejectments for drunkenness and failure to pay, borrowings which were removed from frank street-begging only in his imagination. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Whitelock's plan of attack was injudicious, too many columns, no weight and ensemble, and when he knew the city was fortified at every street, he should have effected regular lodgments and pushed forward from their base. ❋ Unknown (1903)
I might here mention the military pedant, who always talks in a camp, and is storming towns, making lodgments, and fighting battles from one end of the year to the other. ❋ Various (1885)
Not only had they annexed the border territories -- where, for example, the Edomites or Idumaeans held the whole of the Negeb as far as to Hebron; they had effected lodgments everywhere, and -- as the Ammonites, Ashdodites, and especially the Samaritans -- had amalgamated with the older Jewish population, a residue of which had remained in the country in spite of all that had happened. ❋ Julius Wellhausen (1881)
And truly, my lord, your noble proffer is not the less welcome in that I knew not preceesely this night where I and my poor companion '' (patting his horse) ` ` were to find lodgments. '' ❋ Unknown (1871)
Norfolk, Suffolk, &c., where the bankers have large lodgments, and much surplus money to advance on bills for discount. ' ❋ Walter Bagehot (1851)
Descents are then constructed into the ditches, and as soon as these batteries have made a breach into the walls of the bastions and outworks, the boyaux are pushed across the ditches and lodgments effected in the breaches. ❋ Henry Wager Halleck (1843)
All hands were now set to work, some to preparing houses, barracks, and lodgments for the new comers; some to unlade the vessels and store the cargo, and some to extend the wharf. ❋ Harris, Thaddeus M (1838)
Beside the door was conveniently placed a row of some ten or twelve bell - pulls, appertaining no doubt to the various lodgments into which the building was subdivided. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
But as the priestly procession glided to the farther quarters of the armament, as the soldiers in their neighbourhood disappeared within their lodgments, and the torches moved from them to the more distant vistas of the camp, like lines of retreating stars, Gurth heaved a heavy sigh, and turned his horse's head from the scene. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
In the sweeping revenge of Mardonius, even private houses had been destroyed, excepting those which had served as lodgments for the ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
