1 Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.
2 When the Yankees, swarming out of the hills, came upon them, the Southern troops were waiting for them, entrenched behind breastworks, batteries planted, bayonets gleaming, even as they had been at Dalton.
3 They reached the little town of Calhoun, six miles below Resaca, ahead of the Yankees, entrenched and were again ready for the attack when the Yankees came up.
4 As wet June days passed into a wetter July and the Confederates, fighting desperately around the entrenched heights, still held Sherman at bay, a wild gaiety took hold of Atlanta.
5 Thanks to the negro vote, the Republicans and their allies were firmly entrenched and they were riding rough-shod over the powerless but still protesting minority.
6 The governor was too strongly entrenched for any legislature to do anything to him, much less put him in jail.
7 The Thenardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT... 8 Invisible combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the sepulchre concealed in the density of night.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS 9 The Europe they had come from lay out there beyond the Irish Sea, Europe of strange tongues and valleyed and woodbegirt and citadelled and of entrenched and marshalled races.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 10 That part of the line was not entrenched and in front of it the ground was more open and level than elsewhere.
11 They say no when they mean yes, and drive a man out of his wits just for the fun of it, returned Laurie, entrenching himself behind an undeniable fact.
12 Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up red.
13 But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon confronted one another as before.
14 I can tell you quite clearly, because I constructed nearly all our entrenchments.
15 General Sorbier must be ready at the first order to advance with all the howitzers of the Guard's artillery against either one or other of the entrenchments.