I did notice a twinkle of light from the big house through the woods but as I had left a light on in my own house because of the fog I assumed Mrs. Salter had done the same before she left for town.

He positioned his troops in a strongly defensive position, in a plain surrounded by natural obstacles, such as a stream on the left and woods to his back.

At the vital moment, the 200 spearmen Edward had earlier posted in the woods far out on the left attacked Somerset from his own right flank and rear, as Gloucester's battle also joined in the fighting.

Some time ago I left all for Sequoia and have been and am at his feet, fasting and praying for light, for is he not the greatest light in the woods, in the world?

Free-ranging cattle were left to roam the woods, foraging on acorns and sprouts.

Dragging her into the woods and bashing her head on a rock, Knox raped the young woman and left her hidden in the woods.

Still alive, Crow was raped again and left in the woods.

This was regulated by a statute of Henry VIII, which required woods to be enclosed after cutting ( to prevent browsing by animals ) and 12 standels ( standards or mature uncut trees ) to be left in each acre, to be grown into timber.

To the west of Flesquières, the 62nd ( 2nd West Riding ) Division swept all the way through Havrincourt and Graincourt to within reach of the woods on Bourlon Ridge and on the British left, the 36th ( Ulster ) Division reached the Bapaume-Cambrai road.

Thick woods interspersed along the Russian left and center ( on the French side of the Kolocha ) made the deployment and control of French forces difficult, aiding the defenders.

Porter, who had been warned in advance by a friend in the tribe, hid in the woods until they had left.

Nevertheless oak and beech woods succeeded time and again in establishing themselves wherever man left areas of heath untended.

Hitler liked to be left alone during this walk, leaving him unprotected near some woods, where he was out of sight of sentry posts.

In 1864, Muir left school to go to Canada to avoid the military draft, spending the spring, summer, and fall wandering the woods and swamps around Lake Huron collecting plants.

Some time ago I left all for Sequoia: have been and am at his feet fasting and praying for light, for is he not the greatest light in the woods ; in the world.

The French position was marked from right to left by Morsbronn, the Niederwald, the heights west of Wörth and the woods northeast of Fröschweiler.

Meanwhile von Kirchbach, seeing the progress of the XI corps, had ordered the whole of his command forward to assault the French centre ; away to the right the two Bavarian corps moved against the French left, which still maintained its original position in the woods northeast of Fröschweiler.

Burgoyne was left with no protection in the woods against the American rangers.

* Lining a ravine close to the American positions and in the woods on the left was the skirmish line under Major Frederick Heriot of the Canadian Voltigeurs, consisting of three companies of the Voltigeurs and around two dozen Mohawks from Tyendinaga under Interpreter-Lieutenant Charles Anderson.

Ripley and Coles resumed their advance along the edge of the woods, but were startled to see a line of redcoats ( the 2nd / 89th, on Morrison's left flank ) rise up out of concealment and open fire.

Poor held the American left flank, extending into the woods and even wrapping around the British position.

D ' Avalos, left in command of the Spanish forces after Lannoy had followed the retreating cavalry, formed his men up at the edge of the woods and sent messengers to Bourbon, Frundsberg, and De Vasto requesting assistance.

Malmaison was a run-down estate, seven miles ( 12 km ) west of central Paris that encompassed nearly of woods and meadows.

It also has several large green parks such as Grovelands Park which covers ninety-two arces and contains a beautiful boating-lake of seven acres adjoining dense woods and bracken.

In 1872 timber in the remaining woods consisted of “ seven species of Oaks, Sugar maple, Slippery Elm, Beech Black Walnut, Shagbark Hickory, Buckeye, Trembling Aspen ( Populus temmuloides ), Mulberries, Flowering Dogwood, Crabapple, Honey Locust and Pawpaw .”

Carl's biggest endorsee is Les Claypool of the band Primus who plays and owns seven Carl Thompson basses, his most famous being " The rainbow bass ", a 6 string fretless bass made of several different woods.

Wandering through the woods by herself, So White runs into the Sebben Dwarfs, seven diminutive army men in uniform who sing " We're in the Army Now ," with two dwarfs singing " it takes us cats ... to catch them rats " at the end, and So White declares in a 1940s swing-style singing voice, " I'm wacky over khaki now!

Of the estimated 600 to 700 Pequot resident at Mystic that day, only seven survived to be taken prisoner, while another seven escaped to the woods.

After the funeral of a seven year old boy, Lucius Hunt ( Joaquin Phoenix ) asks the village elders for permission to pass through the woods to get medical supplies from " the towns ".

The play is about a group of seven year-old children ( played by adults ) who spend a summer's day in 1943 playing in the woods.

After seven peaceful years, Perceval goes off to live as a hermit in the woods, where he dies shortly after.

Combat was hard, but the Black Prince still had a mobile reserve hidden in the woods, which was able to circle around and attack the French in the flank and rear.

At the same time, the troops are spotted emerging onto the battlefield from the woods on the east-it is unclear at first whether they are French ( Grouchy's force ) or Prussians ( Blücher's army ).

One of the grandest pieces of 19th century furniture is the highly elaborate French Cabinet dated 1861 – 1867 made by M. Fourdinois, made from ebony inlaid with box, lime, holly, pear, walnut and mahogany woods as well as marble with gilded carvings.

Saxe had picked the battleground on which to confront the British, and filled the nearby woods with French marksmen.

Cumberland ignored the threat of the woods when drawing up his battle plans, and instead concentrated on seizing the town of Fontenoy and attacking the main French army nearby.

Despite a concerted Anglo-Hanoverian attack on the French centre, which led many to believe the Allies had won, the failure to clear the woods and of the Dutch forces to capture Fontenoy forced Cumberland's force onto the retreat.

They also cut a road through the woods and built Fort Le Boeuf on French Creek, from which it was possible at high water to float to the Allegheny.

These, with a bureau and a chiffonier in the French national Garde Meuble, in which bouquets of flowers are delicately inlaid in choice woods, are his best-known and most admirable achievements.

When Compans exited the woods on the far bank of the Kolocha, he was hit by massed Russian cannon fire ; both Compans and Dessaix were wounded, but the French continued their assault.

The allied bombardment was to little effect however, as most of the French were in the woods, or in redoubts, or behind the swell of ground leading to their position, or fortified in Fontenoy.

The main body of the French army was farther back and forming up after the passage of some woods.

These men, known as coureurs des bois ( runners of the woods ) ( such as Étienne Brûlé ), extended French influence south and west to the Great Lakes and among the Huron tribes who lived there.

As the Prussians emerged from the woods, a long-range gunnery duel ensued and the French batteries proved superior.

In this manner, step by step, in confusion which almost defies analysis, the Prussians conquered the whole of the ground to the south of the Fröschweiler-Wörth road, but the French still held on in the village of Fröschweiler itself and in the woods to the north of the road, where throughout the day they had held the two Bavarian corps in check with little difficulty.

French troops, dressed brightly, were notably conspicuous in the woods, no concession to camouflage having been considered.

The French, acting with ' offensive spirit ', charged at German positions in the woods, only to be cut down by efficient machine gun fire, backed by heavy artillery.

Lacking room to maneuver by the surrounding woods, the French gendarmes were surrounded and systematically killed.

The French rear was protected by the Fortress of Sedan, and offered a defensive position at Calvaire d ' Illy, which had both hills and woods to provide cover for any defense.

He survived the crash and after hiding in the woods, he was protected by locals who put him in touch with members of the French Underground.