What is "counterthrust"

Usage examples of "counterthrust".

A sharp counterthrust now might break the assault completely and rout the Northland army.

If the counterthrust should falter, both commands were immediately to swing back into the covering smoke and return up the waiting rampways.

Borric, the two men evenly traded blows, answered every thrust with a counterthrust, every parry with a riposte.

Joesai had been a foil to bring out the most deadly counterthrust of the Mnankrei and now they had made it and Bendaein would know what he was up against and respond to that, Bendaein the Cautious.

The islander easily parried his awkward counterthrust, then raised his blade for another swipe.

Around him, the desert was vibrantly alive with secret movement--the nocturnal thrust and counterthrust of instinctive survival.

He stepped out on the old footbridge and when he came to the middle flexed his knees as he had done as a boy, in order to feel the gentle, elastic counterthrust of the wooden structure.

Surely Husathirn Mueri would be prepared for such a thrust, and would have a counterthrust ready.

It had learned the precise balance of thrust and counterthrust required to achieve equilibrium.

As she clung to me, she never moved in disruptive opposition, or murmured the wrong word, or in any way disturbed the deeply satisfying and astonishingly complex rhythms of our passion, but matched each flex and counterflex, each thrust and counterthrust, each shuddering pause, each throb and stroke, until we had achieved and then surpassed flawless harmony.

Jimmy tried for a counterthrust and misjudged his position, and suddenly fire erupted in his side.

They addressed a joint session of Congress, had ticker-tape parades, were sent to seven foreign countries as ambassadors and counterthrusts to Yuri Gagarin and his cosmonauts, and were offered free automobiles and enticing real estate deals.

So he now employed every trick he knew, thrusts, counterthrusts, feints, frontal stabs, and side swings, and none of them worked.

He kept the cavalry busy on the left and right flanks, making short rushes at the enemy to keep them off balance and to prevent an organized counterthrust.

This was Never-Death, and his arrival so inspirited his allies that they launched a counterthrust against the Cheyenne, gambling that if they could terrorize these warriors, Our People would flee automatically.