1
He was drawn by race-horses that were most competent to gain victories.
2
It is an odd way of showing patriotism, to gain victories for the conqueror.
3
The East seemed propitious to the rebels; Grant alone, of our side, could gain victories.
4
He who does not gain victories deserves the grave.
5
What avails it that we gain victories if we are not respected in our country.
6
But we can't expect always to gain victories.
7
His men had been accustomed to fight and gain victories under every disadvantage of situation and numbers.
8
No wonder, then, that as soon as he came into power the British began to gain victories.
9
Then the government began to see that if we would gain victories our armies must be commanded by soldiers, not politicians.
10
He never afterwards gained victories commensurate with his reputation.
11
It thus happened often that when he commanded the army he gained victories, while Gyrger could do nothing.
12
The rebels are represented as continually gaining victories, but singularly enough the northern armies are always drawing nearer!
13
How many generals have gained victories by their very errors, which have been afterwards attributed to their genius!
14
At the opposite extremity of his empire, Sargon soon after-wards gained victories which were of equal or greater importance.
15
He was a coward at heart, a man who could not even avail himself of such hardly gained victories.
16
Seleucus had some sparks of his great master's genius in promoting civilization and commerce, as well as in gaining victories.