1 The old tactics had been not only struck as by lightning, but disgraced.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? 2 Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific military tactics.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 3 These old sailors, accustomed to correct manoeuvres and having as resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public wrath.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV—THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS 4 The necessary tactics of insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply every combatant by the possibilities which that obscurity contains.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II—AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS 5 However, this is according to the tactics of barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE 6 It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize some one whom one does not know.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 7 Lord de Winter adopted the same tactics as Milady, thinking that as his sister-in-law employed them they must be the best.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 50 CHAT BETWEEN BROTHER AND SISTER 8 Seeing the obdurate look on Scarlett's face, Mammy picked up the tray and, with the bland guile of her race, changed her tactics.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER V 9 If she had used the wrong tactics with Ashley in the past--well, that was the past and done with.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER V 10 Not for Hood the cautious tactics of General Johnston.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XVIII 11 Miss Ophelia was old, and skilled in the tactics of nursing.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XXII 12 And all these proposals, based on strategics and tactics, contradict each other.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II 13 To study the skillful tactics and aims of Napoleon and his army from the time it entered Moscow till it was destroyed is like studying the dying leaps and shudders of a mortally wounded animal.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X 14 But such a war does not fit in under any rule and is directly opposed to a well-known rule of tactics which is accepted as infallible.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 14: CHAPTER II 15 Men can only be taken prisoners if they surrender according to the rules of strategy and tactics, as the Germans did.
War and Peace(V5) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIX