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  • No question who had generalled that formidable reception.

    A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

  • Crime and the lost archangel generalled the ranks of Pharaoh, and which triumphed?

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • He lay that night before the city, at ten furlongs distance from the Colline gate, elated and full of hope, at having thus out-generalled so many eminent commanders.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Recent media reports had created an impression of a sickly, overweight, over-generalled defence force unable to fulfil its constitutional obligations.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • And when we recall that African armies at Omduraman in the Sudan and Isandhlwana in South Africa out-generalled, out-soldiered and defeated the mighty armies of the mighty and arrogant British Empire in the seventies of the last century, how can we be but confident that through our efforts, Africa will regain her place among the continents of our universe?

    THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WORLD 1998

  • Ting was out-generalled, and was paying the penalty of a bad formation.

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • Napier has described the terrific effect of Napoleon's pursuit; but in the operations before Corunna he was distanced, if not out-generalled, by Sir John Moore, and ere the first days of

    Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys Various

  • A campaign had taken place in Italy in 1701, when Prince Eugene, with thirty thousand troops, out-generalled Catinat, the able French commander, giving Louis XIV. the opportunity of placing the empty and presumptuous Villeroy in command.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • Rank on rank they stood in infinite perspective; and sometimes an aged beech tree generalled their march and sometimes a magnificent oak spread out his venerable arms with a gesture of command.

    The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp Katherine Stokes

  • The faction clamored for his renomination and pushed their spirited, if poorly generalled, fight to the floor of the convention.

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

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