What is "forays"

Usage examples of "forays".

At one point, when Lambert went out to get a new bottle, Alphonsine played me some Spanish-sounding tune on her guitar and I could hardly control my tears.

They traveled steadily, making no exploratory side trips or hunting forays, no early stops to relax or enjoy Pleasures.

By then his studies had begun to intrigue him into making voluntary forays into the various aspects of spatial engineering.

As long as it was only a question of forays and raids, the Fabii were quite strong enough not only to protect their own fortified post, but, by patrolling both sides of the border-line between the Roman and Tuscan territories, to make the whole district safe for themselves and dangerous for the enemy.

There were not only forays into each other's territories and surprise attacks upon the forayers, but sometimes they fought regular engagements, and this single Roman house often won the victory over what was at that time the most powerful city in Etruria.

They censured their generals because they staked all on one pitched battle, a mode of fighting in which the Romans excelled, whereas the Aequi, they said, were better at destructive forays and raids.

Drizzt secured a cave to serve as an outer camp for his many forays onto the open tundra, and Catti-brie spent quite a bit of time there as well, beside her friend, silently comforting him.

The old Grayhand, Jarl Orel, hadn't always kept his mighty people deep within the mountains over the decades, though thankfully, the frost giant forays hadn't been numerous.

I dislike the thought of their being killed in forays, or sent to Voluntary Farms in Orgoreyn.

If you've thought that Gethen might be involved in forays and harassments from such neighbors, consider the distance at which they live.

The feud had been fought in forays and ambushes for three generations, and there was no settling it, for it was a dispute over land.

It was easy to keep up the protections he had laid on Losen’s person and expeditions and forays, the prisoning spells he had laid on the places slaves worked or treasures were kept.

Wizards trained at the school went to other islands of the Archipelago to work against warlords, pirates, and feuding nobles, preventing raids and forays, imposing penalties and settlements, enforcing boundaries, and protecting individuals, farms, towns, cities, and shipping, until social order was re-established.

Quarrels, murders, feuds, forays, vendettas, assassinations, tortures and abominations, all these were in their repertory of human accomplishments.

If you’ve thought that Gethen might be involved in forays and harassments from such neighbors, consider the distance at which they live.