Sentence examples for sally out from inspiring English sources

Their small, heavily manned, fast-sailing vessels could sally out, attack unprotected merchant ships and retreat to safety behind their shore guns.

Rather than sally out to meet the enemy in the usual way the mistake made at Uḥud he had a ditch dug around Medina, according to tradition, at the suggestion of a Persian convert, Salmān.

General Philippon, the garrison's commander, took this opportunity to sally out and destroy the surrounding Allied trenchworks and batteries.

The pikemen standing firm, we will give them such a volley of musketry as they will be little prepared for; and when they are thrown into confusion, we will sally out, chase them into the water, and ten to one but we secure their vessels.

The French returned to Newport, but the effort, and further urging by Washington, prompted Destouches to sally out of Newport on 8 March with his entire fleet, seven ships of the line and a recently captured frigate, with 1,200 French troops aboard.

Writer drives past his old house and thinks he sees Sally out walking, looking sad and lonely and lovely the way she used to.

At night, they sallied out to capture and kill their former rebel comrades.

In the opening newsreel shots, Long appeared a full-faced, portly, peppery, white-haired man, as full of hubris as a dog is of ticks in spring, sallying out on the floor of the legislature to wrest the microphone from the hands of opposition speakers.

Despite the poor numerical odds, Nauendorf sallied out to engage Wunsch's men.

As the Egyptians arrived at the walls, the Maniots sallied out and caught the Egyptians by surprise.

The governor of Stirling Castle, Colonel Kidd, sallied out to suppress this force, but was defeated at Aberfoyle.