They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

They eventually withdrew from their enterprise when faced with heavy losses.

They drove back repeated attacks by the Axis armour, who then withdrew before dusk.

They withdrew into the mountainous interior and were not subdued until 22 December and 3 January respectively.

They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapithae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.

They stood facing each other immobile for about an hour, before the English withdrew from the field and marched off to join other English units in Meung, Beaugency and Jargeau.

They withdrew from the banks of the Suzhou River, and headed for Nanking.

They withdrew to Orkney, where they spent the winter, and in the spring Olaf returned to Norway.

They then withdrew until a fuller assembly could be arranged.

They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Dorians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapidae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.

They frequently won the show of hands at the hustings, but then withdrew from the poll to expose the deeply undemocratic nature of the electoral system.

They withdrew from court to London, meeting in Dudley's residence.

They withdrew from the conflict in October 1918 but remained a presence ; their foreign adviser Maurice Janin regarded Kolchak as an instrument of the British and was pro-SR. Kolchak could not count on Japanese aid either ; the Japanese feared he would interfere with their occupation of Far Eastern Russia and refused him assistance, creating a buffer state to the east of Lake Baikal under Cossack control.

They had no broadband licence and no viable business plan without selling broadband, and due to lack of funding withdrew its application in Oct 2002.

They withdrew north-east to Marshfield, while their rearguard repulsed an attempt by Waller's cavalry to pursue.

They both contested the results, but his father died soon after, and Gage withdrew his protest in early 1755, as his regiment was being sent to America following the outbreak of the French and Indian War.

They finally withdrew from the league just before it was renamed as the NFL in 1922.

They managed to escape the fate of Napoleon's French soldiers after Yorck negotiated a battlefield truce with Russia when, during a rear-guard action, the French withdrew and left Yorck's troops isolated.

They withdrew into the mountainous interior and were not subdued until 22 December and 3 January respectively.

They subsequently withdrew in 2004 as the Socialist Workers Party prepared to drop the Socialist Alliance and launch the Respect Party coalition, which Workers Power argued was a reformist, populist and cross-class alliance which would be unstable politically.

They also perform the display towards moray eels, and in one instance towards a much larger great hammerhead ( which subsequently withdrew ).

They and the French therefore dispatched warships to Egypt to intimidate the nationalists, though the French later withdrew their contingent of the operation.

They then withdrew from the position just before the defenders called in an artillery barrage on the position and returned to the garrison holding Tobruk.

They fought with each other and the Egyptian army withdrew before him.

They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.

They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.

They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

They reached the guard house without alerting the men on the walls above, and Powers slipped through the door.

They squatted on their heels in the deep mud and Dill found a cigar in his breast pocket, passing it over silently.

They got tin cups of coffee from the big pot on the coosie's fire, rolled and lighted brown-paper cigarettes, lounged about.

They were sitting on their heels, rider-fashion, over by the still empty calf wagon.

They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.

They moved in on him, crowded him from all sides.

They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.

They tracked mud on the oaken floor, on the carpet.

They were headed straight for each other on a collision course.

`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.

They discussed the way people never tell each other the things on their minds.

They watched the tree until it twisted sharply on a bend.

They could come on him now without difficulty.

They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.

They inhabit a secret world centered on `` go codes '' and `` gold phones ''.

They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground.

They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.

They arise in situations in which one believes that what happens depends not only on the external world, but also on the precise pattern of behavior of the individual or group.