All 6 Uses
impromptu
in
Killing Lincoln
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- As Long-street directs his men to strengthen their impromptu defenses in Rice's Station, Lee can only wonder how long it will take the rest of his army and its wagon train to catch up.†
p. 56.6
- The rebel infantry topple the wagons that have made it across the double bridges, using them as an impromptu breastworks, hiding behind a spoked wheel or a tilted axle.†
p. 68.8 *
- After years of battle, hardship, strategizing, and sleeping in one impromptu lodging after another, the two great warriors and the thousands of men in their armies can now go home.†
p. 83.2
- They rub shoulders in taverns, restaurants, cathouses, and the impromptu glow of blazing streetside bonfires.†
p. 87.6
- Grant has slept so many nights in impromptu battlefield lodgings procured on the fly by his staff that it never crossed his mind to send a telegram asking for a room.†
p. 130.4
- Along the way, another impromptu victory parade on Pennsylvania Avenue slows their progress and makes them even later for the show.†
p. 186.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(impromptu) without advance preparation
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)