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Definition of Sortied
1. sortie [v] - See also: sortie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sortied
Literary usage of Sortied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women (1914)
"And afterwards we sortied—sortied till we drove them into hiding, like rabbits.
The Lady of Lathom welcomed us home each night, her eyes on fire. ..."
2. The Campaign in Bulgaria, 1877-1878 by Francis Vinton Greene (1908)
"... a force of one or two battalions sortied from the redoubt (No. 13) on the left
of the Russians, and advanced to the attack of the left flank. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1823)
"... with Blake was expected, the breaching batteries again opened their fire: but
on the 15th the besieged sortied, and nailed up the guns of one work. ..."
4. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1827)
"... and they were no sooner observed than the garrison sortied in considerable
force, infantry and cavalry, with seventeen war elephants, fully caparisoned, ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1845)
"Scarcely was the bulk of the besieging force out of sight of the besieged, than
they sortied and directed their course towards Djema ..."
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