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- verb Present participle of
sally .
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Examples
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They repassed not with impunity: their thronging multitudes, oppressed in a narrow passage, were driven headlong into the Tyber, by their own fears and the pursuit of the enemy; and the Roman general, sallying from the Pincian gate, inflicted a severe and disgraceful wound on their retreat.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Rule the fourth: After we have finished sallying back and forth, I will happily personalize a copy of my own modest literary effort, although someone recently informed me that "eBay" is not a person.
Melanie Benjamin: Ms. Benjamin's Guide to Etiquette for the Polite Reader (and Author) Melanie Benjamin 2011
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This was the most judicious of knocks, as he played himself in with diplomatic references to spreading cricket's values of honesty and fair play before sallying forth with a host of guarantees that he would personally bring Sri Lanka's facilities up to scratch.
The speech that set free Sri Lanka cricket and glued a troubled nation | David Hopps 2011
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His Enterprise was about sallying forth conquering specieism and spacey females up “north”
The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean? 2010
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Rule the fourth: After we have finished sallying back and forth, I will happily personalize a copy of my own modest literary effort, although someone recently informed me that "eBay" is not a person.
Melanie Benjamin: Ms. Benjamin's Guide to Etiquette for the Polite Reader (and Author) Melanie Benjamin 2011
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At the same time he'd ordered a diversionary attack on Jhansi to keep the defenders from sallying out to help Tantia; that had been the noise I'd heard. 45
Fiancée 2010
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We simplify and mislabel while sallying forth with a “cartoonish” view of the people and countries we intend to set straight.
Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010
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His Enterprise was about sallying forth conquering specieism and spacey females up “north”
The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean? 2010
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And those dots, well, some days, I swear, especially when the sky's fiery red, those dots look just like a secret armada of ships, sallying forth to battle.
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'One would have to be dead, very stupid Fuchida thought,' the book says about the fighter pilot Mitsuo Fuchida, 'not to realize they were sallying forth to war.'
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