Sentence examples for engine of war from inspiring English sources
Adm. John Dahlgren, commander of the Union's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, claimed outrage, proposing to send the two captured Confederates to New York for trial and execution for "using an engine of war not recognized by civilized nations".
While the horse may have become "archaic" as a method of transportation or as an engine of war, two other area stables show that the interest in recreational riding remains extremely high in this part of Westchester County.
They go 1-0 up after six minutes and then in the 63rd, Danny Murphy whips a free kick into the box and there is Emile Heskey, rising like a great engine of war hoisted on the shoulders of willing warriors to thunder a header past goalkeeper Francesco Antonioli.
An outspoken enemy of technology, Tolkien longed for an England before the invention of engines, especially engines of war.
Jerusalem's walls were reconstructed, towers were added, and engines of war were mounted at strategic points.
Thus the engines of war were devices such as catapults, floating bridges, and assault towers; their designer was the "engine-er," or military engineer.
(See the animation.) The Belopoeica ("Engines of War") purports to be based on a work by Ctesibius of Alexandria (fl. c. 270 bc).
However, Perry's cartoon of multi-breasted goddesses and phallic engines of war addresses the fact that She Said is far from being a traditional evening.
And the young people said, Jeremy shall bring peace unto all nations, for he hateth the engines of war that take wing across the heavens.
That's the premise of "Engines of War," a carefully shaped group show, primarily photographic, about American militarism that comes across less as an outright polemic than as a gathering of data for an argument, with viewpoints that constantly shift.
