Where the immediate superior has prescribed particular methods to other forces for cooperation and security, these may also be set forth as a matter of information. — from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)
of forty French cannon and sabring the
On its right, the 2nd Life Guards cut up the cuirassiers while disordered by the sudden dip of the hollow cross-road; and further to the west, the 1st Dragoon Guards and 1st Life Guards met them at the edge of the plateau, clashed furiously, burst through them, and joined in the wild charge of Ponsonby's brigade up the opposite slope, cutting the traces of forty French cannon and sabring the gunners. — from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
old free from caterpillars are spread through
So he searched out one or two of these peculiar plants, transplanted them to a field by themselves; as they propagated, he plucked up those with the old leaf, cultivated those with the new,—and now these new cotton plants, finer than the old, free from caterpillars, are spread through many regions. — from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various
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