Sentence examples for before a battle from inspiring English sources

I've seen my own men — hic — give way to it before a battle.

The odds of survival are 608 to 1," he says, before a battle with Stormtroopers breaks out in the corridor.

It marked the position of an important individual before a battle, during a siege, throughout a ceremony, or at a tournament.

It is the period before a battle that may or may not happen but will probably be their death if it does.

He said the move had been inspired by the classic film "Lion of the Desert," about the anticolonial Libyan insurgent Omar Mukhtar in which fighters tie their own feet before a battle to head off the temptation to flee.

When the king and war hero Pedro II of Aragon spent the night before a battle not in prayer or council but in bed with a woman, he was labeled effeminate.

Legend has it that a famous samurai gulped one down before winning a battle.

Andrew, by contrast, is associated with Scotland only by shadowy traditions, such as the story that in 832, Scotland's King Angus saw a vision of the diagonal cross before winning a battle against the Angles and Saxons.

Always ask before joining a battle.

Start by looking at the missions before starting a battle.

One man washed his pliers in a pool of dirty sewage before charging into a battle.