Sentence examples for battle descriptions from inspiring English sources

Be warned: compared to these battle descriptions, Carrhae was a picnic.

This may be a book of piety like Disraeli's life of Lord George Bentinck or Churchill's life of his own father, or indeed of the first Duke of Marlborough - a work now neglected, though it contains the best battle descriptions I know.

Lists of injury types, for a more realistic post-battle description.

Titled "Super Ugly," the track was more vulgar than clever, landing the lowest blows in the battle, including a description of Jay-Z's affair with a woman who is the mother of Nas's daughter.

Roberts is also not a man to stay in his study – he has walked 53 of Napoleon's battlefields, experiences that have made descriptions of battle as lively, fresh and vivid as any you can find in the canon.

Massie does not slight the mechanics of battle; he includes enough descriptions of guns roaring, ships maneuvering and pennants flapping in the breeze to satisfy any fan of Patrick O'Brian.

If we buy that, then it will be all the more disturbing for us to allow the text's central claim, that these beautiful, frequently seen war photographs work, without us realizing it, to "glorify war through an unrelenting parade of beautiful images whose function is to sanctify the accompanying descriptions of battle, death, destruction, and displacement," as Shields writes in his introduction.

No less than half of The Iliad is taken up with descriptions of battles.

Imagery from everyday Old English life and from the Germanic epic tradition enlivens descriptions of battles and sea voyages.

But "War Letters" goes beyond descriptions of battles and the emergence of specific acts of bravery and cruelty.

Tales of shipwreck and wonder, first-hand descriptions of battles and natural disasters, songs and satires make up the anthology, titled Writings from Ancient Egypt.