intrench
Example Sentences
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They intrench and raise batteries; they have engineers.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
Did he at all intrench upon your Sovereignty in Verse, because he had now and then written a Comedy that succeeded?
From A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Colley Cibber
Heth, General, at Wilderness, 556, 558, 560; on failure to intrench, 565; at Petersburg, 605, 609; at Farmville, 617.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
Both the division commanders claim that they were to be relieved, and that they were ordered not to intrench or replenish supplies.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
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 Washington Irving
