coups de main
- plural of coup de main.
Example Sentences
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Central Africa is a country where determined coups de main can sometimes yield surprising results.
From A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle by Wood, Stanley L.
To arrive at that end, he was capable of anything—tortuous intrigues, anonymous pamphlets, hypocritical sermons from the pulpit, studied orations in parliament, popular insurrections and desperate coups de main.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
On this confused and disorderly multitude, as well as on most of the marauders on our flanks, the cossacks might have made successful coups de main.
From History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de
Skill, stratagems, boldness, on the part of the assailant, and fear excited among the assailed, are some of the things which have an influence upon the successful issue of coups de main.
From The Art of War by Mendell, George Henry
Never were opportunities better chosen, coups de main better supported, errors of the besieged taken better advantage of.
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre
