storming-party

A female, bigad - leading a Ghazi storming-party on a neck-or-nothing venture like this!

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

That once popular expression, or proverb, “are you up to snuff?” arose out of the above circumstance; for the officers of my corps, none of whom, except myself, had ventured on the storming-party, used to twit me about this modest reward for my labors.

Burlesques 2006

Ninety-ninth (when was he away and a storming-party to the fore?), and the gallant Potztausend, with his Hanoverian veterans.

Burlesques 2006

Ninety-ninth (when was he away and a storming-party to the fore?), and the gallant Potztausend, with his Hanoverian veterans.

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

Ivanhoe knocked down, the western bartizan was taken by the storming-party which invested it, and every soul slain, except

Burlesques 2006

[Illustration: "_As leader of the storming-party he would direct the attack_"]

The Boy Life of Napoleon Afterwards Emperor of the French Eugenie Foa

Can't you hear the shouts of the enemy's storming-party?

The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War Anonymous

On the afternoon of the 30th, the English storming-party, headed by Lieutenant Forbes, of the Royals, mounted the breach, taking the defenders by surprise, and dispersing them.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

Two-thirds of the way the storming-party proceeded without the enemy being aware of their advance; and they might have reached the very foot of the hill without being discovered, had not Abong

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Indeed, Burnside resisted a night storming-party, and Longstreet was not "a lane that knew no turning," but turned and retreated!

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams