counter-marching

The world is fighting, armies marching and counter-marching, and countries rapidly changing hands.

Castle Rackrent 2006

With all this there is a good deal of display of military power on a small scale, and of such over-aweing implements as bayonets and revolvers, together with marching and counter-marching, body-guards and guards of honor.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Men of a different way of thinking, however, can suit themselves perfectly at Gibraltar; where there is marching and counter-marching, challenging and relieving guard all the night through.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

He had a growing belief that Lake, and perhaps he only — except Wylder himself — knew the meaning of all this mysterious marching and counter-marching.

Wylder's Hand 2003

The entrance was heavily guarded, and there was much activity around it, the marching and counter-marching of the sentries, the scurrying of servants and orderlies, and the coming and going of chariots driven by officers of the Red.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

Perhaps the Emperor, marching and counter-marching his men along the frost hardened roads of the north, could win a great victory and break the alliance that ringed France, yet the Emperor's desperation was witnessed by the fort's emptiness.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

It told of fruitless marching and counter-marching across the plains, of the army's discontent because the French seemed to be outmanoeuvring the British, beating them without a battle being fought, and Hogan hinted that soon the army might be retreating on Salamanca.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

It told of fruitless marching and counter-marching across the plains, of the army's discontent because the French seemed to be outmanoeuvring the British, beating them without a battle being fought, and Hogan hinted that soon the army might be retreating on Salamanca.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

Hoth had fought a clever and flexible battle, with forces which had been in almost continuous action for two months, many of them for far longer, and his tanks were completely worn out by their constant marching and counter-marching.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

The war carried on in Syria after the decisive battle of Boharsef, seems to have been on the model of those recorded by Major Sturgeon, and to have consisted of marching and counter-marching, without any definite object, except, perhaps, the somewhat Universal-Peace-Society one of getting out of the enemy's way.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various