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  • The French contingent poured out of them only to find that again the Americans had beaten them and formed the vanguard of the parade.†   (source)
  • At any rate, through our very position in the vanguard we must do and say the things necessary to get the greatest number of the people to move toward what is for their own good.†   (source)
  • Those in greatest jeopardy, the troops in Mifflin's vanguard, were still holding the outer defenses.†   (source)
  • For almost 200 years they constituted the vanguard of the Fon against European colonizers.†   (source)
  • "What of the Vanguard or the Minstrels?" he inquired, referring to other elite cadres of Agents.†   (source)
  • Barbara Wallraff, a widely published writer on language issues, questions the frequent assumption that, because American culture furthers innovation and openness to new ideas, that culture is inseparable from the English language: Even if the vanguards in all scientific and technological fields, everywhere in the world, used English in their work, once the fruits of their labor became known to ordinaiy people and began to matter to them, people would coin words in their local languages…†   (source)
  • In the last red glow men in the vanguard saw a black speck, a horseman riding back towards them.†   (source)
  • It has always been my dream that the Institute and her sons would be at the vanguard of a moral revolution, a resurgence of the American dream itself.†   (source)
  • He himself had mentioned John Kwang as a part of that vanguard, though his implication was then cast only in terms of succession.†   (source)
  • The Viale della Mura was empty all the way to the Villa Sci-arra, where they passed housewives on their way to market, and the vanguard of the old men who came every day to occupy the domino tables.†   (source)
  • Not counting that time at the Vanguard when you were so tight.†   (source)
  • It was a fine sunny morning with enough breeze to keep the mosquito vanguard down.†   (source)
  • They were the elite, the vanguard of progress.†   (source)
  • I am originally from Cracow, where my family were passionate German partisans, for many years in the vanguard of those countless lovers of the Third Reich who admire National Socialism and the principles of the Fuhrer.†   (source)
  • What seems to have happened was that the people in charge had the opportunity to combine vanguard projects, stuff that was still under investigation and stuff that was extremely new.†   (source)
  • They are in the vanguard of the fight for Peace and Progress.†   (source)
  • "If my son's men will not obey his commands, perhaps the vanguard is not the place for him.†   (source)
  • I might have worried even more about Vanguard's failure if I hadn't had rocket problems of my own.†   (source)
  • As soon as we have the thread, we can lead the vanguard through.†   (source)
  • Hopefully you have slowed down the Titan lord, but his vanguard will still be coming through.†   (source)
  • We had a thought to put you and your wildlings in the vanguard when we come to battle.†   (source)
  • Vanguard managed three tentative feet off the pad, lost thrust, and then blew up.†   (source)
  • Vanguard, after all, had managed to fly a yard higher than I had.†   (source)
  • He was entirely unsuitable as director of the most important vanguard of Swedish national defence.†   (source)
  • He could not imagine that Washington meant his own vanguard.†   (source)
  • They are too many to be scouts and too few to make a vanguard.†   (source)
  • I heard the Vanguard offered you a place.†   (source)
  • Roran glimpsed Carn riding at the vanguard of Edric's men, his gray cloak flapping in the wind.†   (source)
  • They overtook the knights in the main column, then Ser Godry Farring and his vanguard.†   (source)
  • The first of these traded blows with the leaders of our vanguard, and two men fell.†   (source)
  • The Party was the vanguard of history, the spearpoint in the fight for Peace ….†   (source)
  • Six of the vanguard remained, Ten steps… Then five remained.†   (source)
  • They are to the Party what the Party is to socialism: they are the vanguard.†   (source)
  • It was near midday when their vanguard came in sight of the Twins, where the Lords of the Crossing had their seat.†   (source)
  • "The vanguard?" he repeated dubiously.†   (source)
  • IN December 1957, the United States made its first attempt to put a satellite into orbit with its Vanguard.†   (source)
  • This wing too was all cavalry, but where the right was a mailed fist of knights and heavy lancers, the vanguard was made up of the sweepings of the west: mounted archers in leather jerkins, a swarming mass of undisciplined freeriders and sellswords, field-hands on plow horses armed with scythes and their fathers' rusted swords, half-trained boys from the stews of Lannisport …. and Tyrion and his mountain clansmen.†   (source)
  • On February 5, 1958, the hapless Vanguard team tried again for orbit and failed, although this time their rocket managed to at least clear the gantry before it blew up.†   (source)
  • Vanguard was the United States's International Geophysical Year satellite program, and von Braun, since he worked for the Army, was somehow too tainted by that association to make the first American try for orbit.†   (source)
  • This was the first time she had been so close to him since he had returned to King's Landing, leading the vanguard of his father's host.†   (source)
  • Reek picked his way between them carefully, following the remnants of the log-and-plank road that Robb Stark's vanguard had laid down across the soft ground to speed the passage of his host.†   (source)
  • They hoisted the sail, aligned it to catch the light wind, and, at the vanguard of the trio of barges, set forth for Teirm upon the uncertain expanse of the bounding main.†   (source)
  • A vanguard of six-armed Earthborn threw a volley of stones that shattered the bone-and-jewel floor like ice.†   (source)
  • Jarman Buckwell's scouts rode out first, with the vanguard under Thoren Smallwood heading the column proper.†   (source)
  • Snapping about, Jarsha departed and the congregation he had announced entered, with Orrin at the vanguard.†   (source)
  • At the north end of the reservoir, the enemy vanguard broke through the woods—a warrior in golden armor leading a battalion of Laistrygonian giants with huge bronze axes.†   (source)
  • When the clouds were so high and near that the older people began to stir because, unlike their grandchildren, they would not be able to dash quickly through the dunes to the hotel, Alessandro folded the Corriere delta Sera and put it under his thigh to protect it from the large drops of rain that had begun to arrive in the vanguard of the storm.†   (source)
  • I do not care how seasoned a warrior you think you are, Stannis, that host of yours won't survive the first charge of my vanguard."†   (source)
  • Ser Kevan was his brother's vanguard in council, Tyrion knew from long experience; he never had a thought that Lord Tywin had not had first.†   (source)
  • Kronos's vanguard was in the lead: Ethan Nakamura, the dracaena queen in her green armor, and two Hyperboreans.†   (source)
  • In an instant, King Orrin forgot his argument and joined Nasuada as she hurried toward the vanguard of the army, followed by at least a hundred people.†   (source)
  • We ran through smogged-out hollows past houses stilted over raw defiles and we ran into wooded areas that had the look of tinder, a dry white dusty stillness, a sense of combustible edge, but maybe not—I might have been devising my own newsreel. everything quality that creeps into innocuous remarks and becomes the vanguard of estranged feeling.†   (source)
  • I'm not here for the Vanguard.†   (source)
  • A wall of force shimmered along the fissure line, separating Kronos's vanguard, my friends, and me from the bulk of the two armies.†   (source)
  • And do you know who led the vanguard?†   (source)
  • Having lapsed into silence once again, they listened to the click of Alessandro's cane and watched the brightening planets arise as vanguards for the more timid stars that would eventually blaze up from behind and smile upon the whole world.†   (source)
  • The battle broke out at sunrise, Friday, January 3, when Greene's vanguard and British forces ran into each other by chance two miles out from Princeton.†   (source)
  • The second day the host made twenty-four, as their vanguard passed beyond the Glover lands into the thick of the wolfswood.†   (source)
  • Lord Stannis himself was still on the march, but his vanguard had appeared two nights ago during the black of the moon.†   (source)
  • Some were old and storied companies—the Vanguard, the Wildwood Knights, the Bloodstone Circle—but others were new and the names they chose for themselves sounded more like street gangs or goblin tribes than military units.†   (source)
  • One of these belonged to the Red Branch and housed their greatest treasures, but some belonged to different orders, including the Vanguard, the Minstrels, the Promethean Scholars, the Bloodstone Circle, and many other esoteric groups from Rowan's early days.†   (source)
  • Lord Tywin himself had their right wing on the north side of the river, with Randyll Tarly commanding the center and Mace Tyrell the left, but the vanguard won the fight.†   (source)
  • Three days later, the vanguard of Roose Bolton's host threaded its way through the ruins and past the row of grisly sentinels—four hundred mounted Freys clad in blue and grey, their spearpoints glittering whenever the sun broke through the clouds.†   (source)
  • Weak points and strong points, how to best employ their small company of archers, whether the elephants should be used to break the Yunkish lines or held in reserve, who should have the honor of leading the first advance, whether their horse cavalry was best deployed on the flanks or in the vanguard.†   (source)
  • The vanguard passed through the trenches of fire by many devious paths that had been left between them.†   (source)
  • In those days it was almost unheard of to order wine in a bar—especially a tacky place like the Maple Court—but Nathan, in the vanguard about so many things, always managed to have served up a bottle of Chablis, which he kept cold in a bucket by the table and which would last him and Sophie the hour and a half we usually spent there.†   (source)
  • But Gandalf and Aragorn rode with the vanguard to the entrance of Morgul Vale and looked on the evil city.†   (source)
  • The vanguard passed on through the ruins of Old Gondor, and over the wide River, and on up the long straight road that in the high days had been made to run from the fair Tower of the Sun to the tall Tower of the Moon, which now was Minas Morgul in its accursed vale.†   (source)
  • Perhaps flrty of our vanguard remained.†   (source)
  • 'Surely,' he cried, 'this is the greatest jest in all the history of Gondor: that we should ride with seven thousands, scarce as many as the vanguard of its army in the days of its power, to assail the mountains and the impenetrable gate of the Black Land!†   (source)
  • It was easy when there were a dozen or so together at a Branch meeting to rebuild the world, march at the vanguard of socialism and talk of the inevitability of history.†   (source)
  • She was the standard-bearer of a vanguard of intellect and revolt.†   (source)
  • Ere long the vanguard swirled round the spur's end and came rushing into Dale.†   (source)
  • Nettles were everywhere, the vanguard of the army.†   (source)
  • Eve Layton believed that her mission in life was to be the vanguard—it did not matter of what.†   (source)
  • Yes, there should, there must, be love and faith: these left with us by fathers, husbands, sweethearts, brothers, who carried the pride and the hope of peace in honor's vanguard as they did the flags; there must be these, else what do men fight fir? what else worth dying fir?†   (source)
  • As Gandalf had hoped, the goblin army had gathered behind the resisted vanguard, and poured now in rage into the valley, driving wildly up between the arms of the Mountain, seeking for the foe.†   (source)
  • New Frontiers had a white cover with a black emblem that combined a palette, a lyre, a hammer, a screw driver and a rising sun; it had a circulation of thirty thousand and a following that described itself as the intellectual vanguard of the country; no one had ever risen to challenge the description.†   (source)
  • The ladies, with Frau Stohr in the vanguard—though Mmes.†   (source)
  • It was mid-day before Bulow's vanguard had been able to reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert.†   (source)
  • It was of this detachment, sent as a vanguard, that our friend d'Artagnan formed a part.†   (source)
  • All that Grimaud gained by this momentary pantomime was to pass from the rear guard to the vanguard.†   (source)
  • —Hence, at certain hours, a profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race.†   (source)
  • And here as in a game of blindman's buff the French ran into our vanguard.†   (source)
  • His vanguard was very feeble, and could accomplish nothing.†   (source)
  • The night he received the news, Kutuzov sent Bagration's vanguard, four thousand strong, to the right across the hills from the Krems-Znaim to the Vienna-Znaim road.†   (source)
  • First, a vanguard of the light-armed—mostly slingers and bowmen—marching with wide intervals between their ranks and files; next a body of heavy-armed infantry, bearing large shields, and hastoe longoe, or spears identical with those used in the duels before Ilium; then the musicians; and then an officer riding alone, but followed closely by a guard of cavalry; after them again, a column of infantry also heavy-armed, which, moving in close order, crowded the streets from wall to wall,…†   (source)
  • As to Athos, he went out without any mystery, took his horse, which was tied with those of his friends to the fastenings of the shutters, in four words convinced the attendant of the necessity of a vanguard for their return, carefully examined the priming of his pistols, drew his sword, and took, like a forlorn hope, the road to the camp.†   (source)
  • The Emperor's gratitude was announced to the vanguard, rewards were promised, and the men received a double ration of vodka.†   (source)
  • The officer snatched a little food at a comrade's, and rode again to the vanguard to find Miloradovich.†   (source)
  • They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards the four cardinal points of progress.†   (source)
  • The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau, within sight of the enemy's lines, which all day long had yielded ground to us at the least firing.†   (source)
  • The prisoner said that the troops that had entered Forminsk that day were the vanguard of the whole army, that Napoleon was there and the whole army had left Moscow four days previously.†   (source)
  • The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and his vanguard, driving off the Cossacks, crossed the Russian frontier, Alexander spent the evening at the entertainment given by his aides-de-camp at Bennigsen's country house.†   (source)
  • But the baggage trains stretched out so that the last of Beauharnais' train had not yet got out of Moscow and reached the Kaluga road when the vanguard of Ney's army was already emerging from the Great Ordynka Street.†   (source)
  • The younger Emperor could not restrain his wish to be present at the battle and, in spite of the remonstrances of his courtiers, at twelve o'clock left the third column with which he had been and galloped toward the vanguard.†   (source)
  • But instead of that, at the next village the sentinels of Davout's infantry corps detained him as the pickets of the vanguard had done, and an adjutant of the corps commander, who was fetched, conducted him into the village to Marshal Davout.†   (source)
  • For the last three days Bogucharovo had lain between the two hostile armies, so that it was as easy for the Russian rearguard to get to it as for the French vanguard; Rostov, as a careful squadron commander, wished to take such provisions as remained at Bogucharovo before the French could get them.†   (source)
  • Then Nero had the vanguard with the most part of his people, and Merlin came to King Lot of the Isle of Orkney, and held him with a tale of prophecy, till Nero and his people were destroyed.†   (source)
  • …advantage, Fordo, destroy,; fordid, Forecast, preconcerted plot, For-fared, worsted, Forfend, forbid, Forfoughten, weary with fighting, Forhewn, hewn to pieces, Forjousted, tired with jousting, Forthinketh, repents, Fortuned, happened, Forward, vanguard, Forwowmded, sorely wounded, Free, noble, Freshed, Froward, away from, Gad, wedge or spike of iron, Gainest, readiest, Gar, cause, Gart, compelled, Gentily, like a gentleman, Gerfalcon, a fine hawk, Germane, closely allied, Gest, deed,…†   (source)
  • In the meanwhile brake the ambushment of King Ban and King Bors, and Lionses and Phariance had the vanguard, and they two knights met with King Idres and his fellowship, and there began a great medley of breaking of spears, and smiting of swords, with slaying of men and horses, and King Idres was near at discomforture.†   (source)
  • Then Nero had the vanguard with the most part of his people, and Merlin came to King Lot of the Isle of Orkney, and held him with a tale of prophecy, till Nero and his people were destroyed.†   (source)
  • Vanguard, to right and left the front unfold; That all may see who hate us, how we seek Peace and composure, and with open breast Stand ready to receive them, if they like Our overture; and turn not back perverse: But that I doubt; however witness, Heaven!†   (source)
  • In the meanwhile brake the ambushment of King Ban and King Bors, and Lionses and Phariance had the vanguard, and they two knights met with King Idres and his fellowship, and there began a great medley of breaking of spears, and smiting of swords, with slaying of men and horses, and King Idres was near at discomforture.†   (source)
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