intrench

Example Sentences

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Before knowing the true situation, he gave orders to retire and intrench with a view to a siege.

From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Fletcher, Samuel H.

Ah, word of no meaning, behind whose vast latitude of mere sound we intrench our ignorance of so much of the spiritual!

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

They were proceeding to intrench themselves, but were driven into their tents by a drenching rain.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington

It proceeded to intrench itself in political as well as in financial power.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers

He would need to do no more than shout for the waiter to fill up his mug again and intrench himself for the evening.

From Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams by Broun, Heywood