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was and marching
One moment, the road was filled with disciplined troops, marching four by four with a purpose as implacable as death ; ;
Their only hope of survival was to hold to the road and keep marching.
The sight of the small man in a uniform much too large for his less than 5-foot frame — the army did not issue uniforms small enough — was so disruptively funny that he was excused from parades and marching drills.
* 2007: To commemorate the centenary of the Treaty of Rome, the military parade was led by troops from the 26 other EU member states, all marching at the French time.
The people planned on marching to the Guildhall, but because of army barricades designed to reroute the march it was redirected to Free Derry Corner.
During this era, the Cottage was used for choir singing and marching bands along with other performances, and Mass.
Approaching or entering a battle, the taiko yaku ( drummer ) was responsible for setting the marching pace, usually with six paces per beat of the drum ( beat-2-3-4-5-6, beat-2-3-4-5-6 ).
Beginning around 1890, the early New Orleans jazz ensemble ( which played a mixture of marches, ragtime, and Dixieland ) was initially a marching band with a tuba or sousaphone ( or occasionally bass saxophone ) supplying the bass line.
" Kaye was often invited to conduct symphonies as charity fundraisers and was the conductor of the all-city marching band at the season opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1984.
Henry and his army were marching south from Barfleur on their way to Domfront and Robert was marching with his army from Falaise on their way to Mortain.
However it was the Franks who came to dominate Western and Central Europe after the fall of Rome, and they generally fielded armies composed of large masses of infantry, with an infantry elite, the comitatus, which often rode to battle on horseback rather than marching on foot.
During his invasion of the Levant, Richard I of England was forced to supply his army as it was marching through a barren desert.
By marching his army along the shore, Richard was regularly resupplied by ships travelling along the coast.
While marching north again, Malcolm was ambushed by Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria, whose lands he had devastated, near Alnwick on 13 November 1093.
The earliest known official or large-scale celebration of Pi Day was organized by Larry Shaw in 1988 at the San Francisco Exploratorium, where Shaw worked as a physicist, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, then consuming fruit pies.
Once Richard had arrived at Barfleur, he was soon marching towards Verneuil.
Stephen's castle at Malmesbury was besieged by Henry's forces and the king responded by marching west with an army to relieve it.
On their opening possession, Denver was forced to punt after three plays and the 49ers scored on their ensuing drive, marching 66 yards and scoring on a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Montana to receiver Jerry Rice.
The beat of the large drums usually meant that the army was marching into battle.
The Force was also given the honour of marching in the victory parade under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

was and up
Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
clutched her throat and sucked up the moisture in her mouth so that her tongue was dry and hard and stuck to the roof of her mouth and her teeth were clenched together in the rigid fixture of her jaws.
That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.
The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.
He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.
The wound in his scalp was examined, pronounced healing, and well doctored with simples, before they dished up the victuals.
`` Jackson recruited his critters, and him and me fixed up his wagon while we was waiting for you to catch up.
The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.
He knew now what he was up against.
One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.
He had no idea which was up and which was down.
He caught up with me once and grabbed me, but I was all covered with zing -- it's very slippery, you know ''.

was and down
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Russ visited two places without result and his blood pressure was down to zero.
It was you that tracked it down anyway, Stevens '', he pursued strictly.
Greg's mission was the last to leave, and as he circled the ships off Tacloban he saw the clouds were dropping down again.
The way his red rubber lips were stretched across his pearly little teeth I thought he was only having a little joke, but, no, he wanted me to bend down from the roar of wind so he could roar something into my ear.
Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.
As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.
She was watching a tree ride wildly down that roiling current.
He let down the tailgate and was knocked over by the sluice of water.
Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.
Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;
and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.
`` I was down to 275.
`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.
`` Blessed Saint Nicholas, I thank thee for getting me out of that mess and sending me up instead of down when I was bewildered.

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