countermarches love

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  • noun Plural form of countermarch.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of countermarch.

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Examples

  • DC; two "countermarches" in defense of industry and technology on Earth Day in front of the

    The Rule of Reason 2010

  • This little stream fed the Porcupine, which in turn joined the Yukon where that mighty highway of the North countermarches on the Arctic Circle.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • This little stream fed the Porcupine, which in turn joined the Yukon where that mighty highway of the North countermarches on the Arctic Circle.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • His plantation lay within a mile of the marches and countermarches of the British, and had been subject to every kind of waste and depredation.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

  • Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the sword, he went to see

    Les Miserables 2008

  • But there have been no countermarches to this march, and this march has been very, very peaceful.

    CNN Transcript May 1, 2007 2007

  • It was in fact an excessively amusing little warfare, with its marches and countermarches and stratagems, — all of which were keenly enjoyed by the Dumays, the Latournelles, Gobenheim, and

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • It was one of those obscure but terrible conflicts on which are expended in marches and countermarches, in strategy, skill, hatred, and vexation, the powers that might make a fine fortune.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • * If thou givest due weight to this consideration, thou wilt not wonder that I should make many marches and countermarches, some of which may appear, to a slight observer, unnecessary.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • She was vexed at her foolishness, since the ground she had covered, if in a straight line, must inevitably have taken her out of the wood to some remote village or other; but she had wasted her forces in countermarches; and now, in much alarm, wondered if she would have to pass the night here.

    The Woodlanders 2006

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