Foremost position

Usage examples of vanguard.

Halting for refreshment and rest wherever suitable places could be found, and the Adelantado always with the vanguard, in four days they reached the vicinity of the fort, and came up within a quarter of a league of it, concealed by a grove of pine trees.

The remaining 117 men were probably becalmed, in their barques and canoas, some miles from the vanguard.

I will be in the vanguard of the interspecieists, demanding full equality for coleopteroid and man alike.

Nom Anor and the Shaper Lord made to follow, along with the priests and the vanguard band, but as soon as Ganner was clear of the doorway, Jacen turned and made a small gesture that Ganner felt as another swift, incredibly powerful rush in the Force.

As far as I can tell, the only practitioners in all of Vanguard are the young intelligencer Deveron and myself.

As she started up them, Frey ran ahead of her and Assh lingered behind, vanguard and rearguard.

Charles, however, was forced to give way in the face of facts, when he heard at San Teranza that his vanguard, commanded by Marechal de Gie, and composed of six hundred lances and fifteen hundred Swiss, when it arrived at Fornova had come face to face with the confederates, who had encamped at Guiarole.

The French wanted to pursue, but the Marechal de Gie, fearing that this flight might be only a trick to draw off the vanguard from the centre, ordered every man to stay in his place.

Vampires could form the vanguard of a comfortable new myth, a myth of sharing, mutualistic cooperation.

The birth of the modern trade union and the construction of the party as vanguard both date from this period of worker struggles and effectively overdetermine it.

Still clutching his sword, Kluge staggered out of the great hall, hacking and slashing at the mailed men in red surcoats, who had made short work of his punker vanguard and now were slowly gaining the edge on his black knights as well.

Surrey, taking advantage of the smoke, which was blown towards him, and which concealed his movements, passed the Till with his artillery and vanguard at the bridge of Twisel, and sent the rest of his army to seek a ford higher up the river.

The first politically pure vanguard that will sweep the earth clear of all unprogressive elements.

John Macdougall of Lorn and Sir Alexander Abernethy, together with their followings, were in the vanguard.

Carbonell did not notice he was under attack until a vanguard of anoles swarmed onto his leg.