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sallying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sally \Sal"ly\ (s[a^]l"l[y^]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sallied (-l[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Sallying.] [F. saillir, fr. L. salire to leap, spring, akin to Gr. "a`llesqai; cf. Skr. s[.r] to go, to flow. Cf. Salient, Assail, Assault, Exult, Insult, Saltation, Saltire.] To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.
They break the truce, and sally out by night.
--Dryden.
The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host.
--Byron.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who sallies. vb. (present participle of sally English)
Usage examples of "sallying".
However, as two legions always kept guard before the camp by Caesar's orders, and several of them were at stated times at the work, measures were promptly taken, that some should oppose the sallying party, others draw back the towers and make a cut in the rampart.
In the mean time there were frequent skirmishes across the marsh, a few on both sides sallying out between the two camps.
With this, and the five pounds eighteen shillings which remain in my purse, I was sallying out to clear standing-room, and win the right to live from my fellow-men.
But many of them still had enough presence of mind to fire arrows at the Romans sallying from the villa.
There was nothing to stop the Roman warships from sallying up the river, firing at troops who had no way to shoot back except small arms and light cannon.
It would be asking much of any sallying force to cross two hundred yards of naked glacis in the teeth of such a fire and then storm ditch and parapet.
There was still heavy firing going on as the rear-guard covered the retreat of the sallying forces to the ramparts.
There have been other sallyings forth since then, but none such as that night’s.
There have been other sallyings forth since then, but none such as that night's.