How To Use Intrench In A Sentence
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Take care that the time designed and allotted does neither too much intrench upon the occasions of the outward man, nor upon the weakness of the inward man.
Sacramental Discourses
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The military forces were distributed along what was known as the intrenched camp
The end of an era,
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Here, therefore, is great danger, lest one of these jurisdictions intrench upon the other, and discord arise between the keeper of the public peace and the overseers of souls.
A Letter Concerning Toleration
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The parapet of the intrenchment was too high for my horse to jump, so, riding a short distance to the left, I entered through a low place in the line.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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She was too firmly intrenched in the established to have any sympathy with revolutionary ideas.
Chapter 24
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I think we need to put a major funding program in place, it is the only way to beat this statist intrenched thug.
Meet Matthew Berry (R CAND, VA-08). | RedState
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Where these duties of observing sacrifices do sensibly intrench upon duties of mercy, God doth not require it; which hath a great regard even unto our outward occasions.
Sacramental Discourses
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The intrenchment was a formidable one, being provided with parapets armed with chevaux de frise, and flanked by strong exterior works, while several batteries had been placed to sweep the ground across which an enemy must advance.
A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
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And then turning to Father Dominick, whose contemptuous rejection of the coarse favour so accidentally conferred, had not escaped our Irishman’s notice, he frankly assured him, that “however a greasy jasey might disgrace a friar’s head, it could do no injury to his heart, since that was too black to receive any damage from trifles, and too deeply intrenched by cunning and cruelty to be injured by common assaults.”
The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity
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Page 9 and Illustration, "intrenched" changed to "entrenched" to conform to text.
The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story
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Monotheletism, furthermore, was too strongly intrenched in the East to be removed by a single conciliar action.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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In front of the stockade, but some considerable distance from it, and on the sloping land that was nigh to the beach, we had thrown up a kind of intrenchment, behind which we could kneel and fire, and under whose cover we hoped to be able to make a good account of assailants.
Marjorie
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Bragg's intrenchments in front of Stone River were very strong, and there seems no reason why he should not have used his plain advantage as explained, but instead he allowed us to gain time, intrench, and recover a confidence that at first was badly shaken.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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I believe it stems from brainwashing from far right religious beliefs and intrenched racial beliefs learned in childhood and carried on into adulthood.
Video: AC360° panel: Racism fueled anger?
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V. viii.9 (529,3) the intrenchant air] That is, air which cannot be cut.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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The old system of intrenched camps and lines of contravallation is unsuited to the spirit of modern warfare.
Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition
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Once, in action, he was leading a detachment of infantry through an intrenchment.
Off on a Comet
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The conventionary doubted not that he had successively conquered all the inmost intrenchments of the Bishop.
Les Miserables
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But, if you are deeply intrenched in a topic to the degree of an ‘expert’ would you stop reading non-fiction of that topic because they probably do not have new insights for you to learn?
Does All Writing Teach? » Blog Archive » Writer's Round-About - The Craft and Business of Fiction and Freelance Writing
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The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and the
Les Miserables
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M. Carnot was of opinion, that it was necessary, to declare the country in danger, call the federates and national guards to arms, place Paris in a state of siege, defend it, at the last extremity retire behind the Loire, form intrenchments there, recall the army of
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
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Shortly afterward General Wheeler sent us orders to intrench.
The Rough Riders
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I retired this night not knowing but that I would have to intrench my position, and bring up tents for the men or build huts under the cover of the hills.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Ulysses S. Grant invents American prose
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It was the intrenchment of his contempt that Lord Newhaven missed.
Red Pottage
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He had improvised an intrenchment out of the table; and the man, who but an instant previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had suddenly become a sort of athlete, and placed his robust fist on the back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture.
Les Miserables
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In short, this was the safest, politest, and, at the same time, the most thorough house of accommodation in town: every thing being conducted so that decency made no intrenchment upon the most libertine pleasures, in the practice of which too, the choice familiars of the house had found the secret so rare and difficult, of reconciling even all the refinements of taste and delicacy with the most gross and determinate gratifications of senuality.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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In biology, the animosity to such thinking is much more intrenched.
Antony Flew dies at 87
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Nor in tbeit liquid texture mortal "Mound Receive f no more than can thejhtid air;] The same comparif son in Sliakespear, Macbeth, adt v. As easy may'sc thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed.
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson ...
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The word “ridotto” is properly what we once signified by the word “reduit,” intrenchment; but “reduit” having sunk into a term of contempt among us, our editors translated
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The word “ridotto” is properly what we once signified by the word “reduit,” intrenchment; but “reduit” having sunk into a term of contempt among us, our editors translated
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The path which led up to the intrenchment, lay across fields of “phormium” and a grove of beautiful trees, the “kai-kateas” with persistent leaves and red berries; “dracaenas australis,” the “ti-trees” of the natives, whose crown is a graceful counterpart of the cabbage-palm, and
In Search of the Castaways
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(Institutional racism remains a serious issue, and one worthy of skewering, but, like with sexism, it is typically subtler and more intrenched than Hollywood makes it out to be.)
Catie Lazarus: A Review of The Cleveland Show : Hancock's Previous Episodes
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As Jacob told Esau, if the cattle were driven beyond their pace they would die; so we find by experience, that though with strong resolutions we may engage unto duties in such a manner as may intrench upon these outward occasions or those weaknesses, they will return, and be too hard for us, and instead of getting ground, they will drive us off from ours: so that there is prudence to be required therein.
Sacramental Discourses
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When taxes go so far as to intrench on the Subsistence of the People, they become burdensome and oppressive.
Robert Morris
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Feinstein is another intrenched, corrupt politician who helped us run up the deficit and damage our economy.
Feinstein suggests full Senate could consider Kagan by Aug. 1
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He had no better implement with which to intrench himself in the land than a clam - shell.
Walking
