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Definition of Skirmishing
1. skirmish [v] - See also: skirmish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skirmishing
Literary usage of Skirmishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"Alter advancing and skirmishing about three miles, the Indians gathered in ...
We continued to advance for about two miles further, constantly skirmishing ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1875)
"480 Two additional companies of the 55th understood to have been sent out
skirmishing to the line of the pickets from the same regiment,* . . . . . .108 One ..."
3. Twenty-five Years in the Secret Service: The Recollections of a Spy by Henri Le Caron (1893)
"I there proposed to receive into the trusteeship and Executive Council of the
skirmishing Fund one or two of their body, provided that the one or two ..."
4. Life with the Thirty-fourth Mass. Infantry in the War of the Rebellion by William Sever Lincoln (1879)
"LINCOLN'S ESCAPE — MORE skirmishing — OFF FOR HALLTOWN — ANOTHER SKIRMISH — A
BARRICADE — CHARLEY THURMAN — AGAIN skirmishing. ..."
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