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If it is said that he expected to end the campaign by occupying Moscow as he had ended a previous campaign by occupying Vienna, there is much evidence to the contrary. [2]

More example sentences with the word occupying in them

The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
He found him without much trouble in his usual attitude, occupying one of the chairs in the corridor. [9]
In his long walks it was not on the law that Philip was ruminating, nor was the fame of success in it occupying his mind. [4]
But the next time I succeeded, and got clumsily under way in a weaving, tottering, uncertain fashion, and occupying pretty much all of the street. [5]
His bedding, on the shelf, at once changed places with the bedding--a stranger's--that was occupying the sofa that was opposite to mine. [5]
And passengers in the cabin occupying chairs and sofas, surrounded by their baggage, always look bored and melancholy. [4]
The company felt that they were occupying an unusually responsible position--they were representing the people of America, not the Government--and therefore they were careful to do their best to perform their high mission with credit. [5]
Lastly, Westring states that in Omaloplia brunnea the rasp is placed on the pro-sternum, and the scraper on the meta-sternum, the parts thus occupying the under surface of the body, instead of the upper surface as in the Longicorns. [1]
It is true that hypocrisy and vulgar self-seeking often succeed in life, occupying high places, and make their exit in the pageantry of honored obsequies. [4]
Of course the telegraph, and the telegraph only, will be employed; consequently friends occupying state-rooms 20,000,000 and even 30,000,000 miles apart will be able to send a message and receive a reply inside of eleven days. [5]
Then, baked and subdued still more by the unexpected presence of Mrs. Grosvenor Green herself, who was occupying it so as to be able to show it effectively, he took it. [8]
He found a stately dignitary occupying a very official chair behind a long green morocco-covered table, in a room with sumptuously carpeted and furnished, and well garnished with pictures. [5]
If such a one will place himself upon the right ground, I am for his occupying one place upon the next Republican or opposition ticket. [7]
The sun rose once more, and exhibited thirty-two dogs, sixteen of them with broken legs, occupying the sidewalk and half of the street; the human spectators took up the rest of the room. [5]
Hence the ocelli on the several feathers, though occupying very different positions with respect to the light, all appear as if illuminated from above, just as an artist would have shaded them. [1]
Moscow was set on fire by the soldiers' pipes, kitchens, and campfires, and by the carelessness of enemy soldiers occupying houses they did not own. [2]
Two of these old graveyards--the one that I resided in and one further along have been deliberately neglected by our descendants of to-day until there is no occupying them any longer. [5]
The houses are of wood and plaster, each story overhanging the other, terminating in sharp pediments; the roofs projecting on cantilevers, and the windows occupying the whole front of each of the lower stories. [4]
The farmer was occupying the middle of the road with his wagon, leaving barely fourteen or fifteen yards of space on either side. [5]
The gem-cutter Heron, occupying one of the foremost cushioned seats, radiant with pride and delight in the red-bordered toga of his new dignity, clapped his big hands with such vehemence that his immediate neighbors were almost deafened. [10]
I have been occupying a position, since the Presidential election, of silence--of avoiding public speaking, of avoiding public writing. [7]
Many who are now occupying influential positions owe their first start or have had the path smoothed for them by her kindness. [10]
The family were now also occupying the front cell,--a cheerful room commanding a view of the village street and of the bay. [4]
The princess gave no reply and did not even smile, but left the room as Anna Mikhaylovna took off her gloves and, occupying the position she had conquered, settled down in an armchair, inviting Prince Vasili to take a seat beside her. [2]
He is occupying Napoleon's old stand--St. Helena. [5]
He is very much in the habit, when he argues me up into a position I never thought of occupying, of very cosily saying he has no doubt Lincoln is "conscientious" in saying so. [7]
My ticket entitles me to a seat, but you are occupying half of it. [5]
Well, I found it was no use, I couldn't get along, for Wayne MacVeagh was occupying the whole place, and I said to Mr. Dana, "What is the matter with that man? [5]
The body of it was a condensation of what he had repeatedly written about New England, and the advantage to England of occupying the fisheries. [4]
To the town--that is, to a thousand or two persons occupying in their own eyes an exclusive position it was one of the events of the season, and, indeed, it was the sensation for a couple of days. [4]
One other feature is clear--Willie Winter (for these past thousand years dramatic editor of the New York Tribune, and still occupying that high post in his old age) was there. [5]
By this time I was occupying Mr. Watling's room. [9]
Mr. Twichell's tuition, I was in his pastorate, occupying a pew in his church, and held him in due reverence. [5]
The chair at his side, occupying that corner, is empty. [6]
He even told her that his Majesty was occupying himself with his last will, the payment of his debts, the arrangement of the succession, and the choice of his burial place. [10]
He felt ashamed; he felt that he was occupying someone else's place here beside Helene. [2]
To operate on exterior lines against an enemy occupying a central position will fail, as it always has failed, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. [7]
The most conspicuous building in it as we approach is the Roman Catholic church; advanced to the edge of the town and occupying the highest ground, it appears large, and its gilt cross is a beacon miles away. [4]
I have not broken it, except to write "Eve's Diary" and "A Horse's Tale"--short things occupying the mill 12 days. [5]
If there had been a conspicuous dead tree standing upon the very point of the cape, I would find that tree inconspicuously merged into the general forest, and occupying the middle of a straight shore, when I got abreast of it! [5]
Indeed, those mighty bars of alternate light and shadow streaming up from behind that dark and prodigious form and occupying the half of the dull and opaque heavens, was the most imposing and impressive marvel I had ever looked upon. [5]
Count Nostitz, the Austrian general occupying the advanced posts, believed Murat's emissary and retired, leaving Bagration's division exposed. [2]
Children occupying seats at the first table will be charged full fare. [5]
I will speak at Ottawa one hour, you can reply, occupying an hour and a half, and I will then follow for half an hour. [7]
Near St. Paul and Minneapolis are several points of interest--Fort Snelling, a fortress occupying a river-bluff a hundred feet high; the falls of Minnehaha, White-bear Lake, and so forth. [5]
Near by Lieutenant Abbott was an unhappy gentleman, occupying a small chamber, and filling it with his troubles. [6]
Privately and in a very still way, she was occupying herself with the problem of the young stranger, the subject of some delusion, or disease, or obliquity of unknown nature, to which the vague name of antipathy had been attached. [6]
You must secure a table hours beforehand, and often when you arrive you will find somebody occupying it. [5]
Kutuzov was occupying a nobleman's castle of modest dimensions near Ostralitz. [2]

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