On July 3, Lee selected Pettigrew's division to march at the left of Maj. Gen. George Pickett's in the famous infantry assault now known as Pickett's Charge ( although some recent historians have used the name " Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble Assault " to describe it because Pickett led only one third of men in the attack ).

In the afternoon attacks, his men advanced on a line with J. Johnston Pettigrew's North Carolina brigade, and although the latter brigade fought fiercely, suffering over a thousand casualties, Brockenbrough's brigade was hesitant and fought ineffectively against the Pennsylvanians of Col. Roy Stone and a portion of the Iron Brigade, as may be inferred from their casualty rate of 100.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

Two men were on duty inside, playing pinochle, relaxed.

A company of cavalry couldn't come in there if two men were guarding that trail ''.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

They were all good men.

All through Albany and Laramie counties, other men were doing the same.

The small half-heartedly tended fields of men who'd spent more time rustling cattle than farming were lying fallow.

Jury, judge and executioner were riding the range in the form of a single unknown figure that could materialize anywhere, at any time, to dispense an ancient brand of justice the men of the new West had believed long outdated.

Within a decade or less, few men were left and a feminist society had sprung up.

`` Karipo was great goddess, told our mothers that men were not necessary except to father children '', the crone told me.

The men behind them were Bill Doolin and five of his gang -- every man a killer.

Even today range riders will come upon mummified bodies of men who attempted nothing more difficult than a twenty-mile hike and slowly lost direction, were tortured by the heat, driven mad by the constant and unfulfilled promise of the landscape, and who finally died.

Strong men with strong opinions, frank to the point of being refreshingly indiscreet, the Founding Seven were essentially congenial minds, and their agreements with each other were more consequential than their differences.

others were of men doffing their hats to each other, carrying umbrellas with pomp, reading newspapers, or simply showing loaves of bread spread out.

In much the same way, we recognize the importance of Shakespeare's familarity with Plutarch and Montaigne, of Shelley's study of Plato's dialogues, and of Coleridge's enthusiastic plundering of the writings of many philosophers and theologians from Plato to Schelling and William Godwin, through which so many abstract ideas were brought to the attention of English men of letters.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

The men were tired too.

Rather than attempt an ambush on those troops, which significantly outnumbered his tired company, Allen withdrew to the other side of the river, where the men collapsed with exhaustion and slept without sentries through the night.

Heffron was 72 at the time of the election and his age and the longevity of the government were made issues by the Askin's opposition which described it as being composed of " tired old men ".

The French had no time to rest, a disadvantage in that the men were tired and the crossbowmen equipment was still wet.

However, tired from the battle and retreat from Isandlwana and short of carbine ammunition, Henderson's men departed for Helpmekaar.

The tired Jameson raiders initially exchanged fire with the Boers losing around thirty men before Jameson realized the position was hopeless and surrendered to Commander Piet Cronjé.

French strength consisted of 30, 000 hungry and tired men, including many raw conscripts, and 120 cannons.

With his men exhausted and knowing Hédouville's column had also crossed the river at Oost-Capel Houchard wished to halt for the night, but Representative Hentz overruled him, announcing " Free men were never too tired to fight the slaves of tyrants ; therefore the army should continue it's movement ".

Not only were they witnesses to his hesitations, he refused to throw his tired and disorganised men at Yorks orderly rearguard, telling the Representative bluntly he was ' not a military '.

Just like Bernadotte's, this action began later than expected, towards 21: 00, with Davout's men tired after a day of marching and fighting.

The Austrians hit the now diminished and tired French cavalry in flank, wounding Defrance and sending his men reeling back to their own lines with heavy casualties.

Charlemagne and his men are tired of fighting and decide to accept this peace offer.

James Irvine remarked in 1867 that he and his men " rode about Irvine Ranch a good deal, sometimes coming home in the evening after a thirty-or forty-mile ride pretty thoroughly tired out, but we had to do it in order to see much of the ranch and the flock.

As the story progresses, more people come to join the outlaw band, among whom include army generals and civil servants who grew tired of serving the corrupt government, as well as men with special skills and talents.

But beliefs persist about the need to dress fashionably and an old saying is " women don't become bluestockings until men have tired of looking at their legs.

The same tired old men — old in ideas, old in hopes — will still keep a death grip on southern Republicanism.

On the seventh day she began creating men from yellow clay, sculpting each one individually, yet after she had created hundreds of figures in this way she still had more to make but had grown tired of the laborious process.

Too tired to fight back, Yukimura allowed the men to kill him, reportedly saying, " I am Sanada Nobushige, no doubt an adversary quite worthy of you, but I am exhausted and can fight no longer.

By 1914 the Supreme Council was largely purged of its older, tired leadership, and was dominated by enthusiastic men such as Hobson, McCullough, Patrick McCartan, John MacBride, Sean MacDermott, and Tom Clarke.

When it did, the men and horses were too tired and could not summon the required energy.

She is popular at school and has had many boyfriends, but admits she's tired of dating men who only want her for sex.

Kutuzov's troops were only about 46, 000 men who were tired after five consecutive years of war.

Many of the wounded and tired men could not keep themselves afloat and drowned, including King Magnus.