Word Finder - allies

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A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots or buildings.

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The parking lot to my friend's apartment building is in the alley.

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• alleyway

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The area between the outfielders.

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He hit one deep into the alley.

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• gap

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An establishment where bowling is played.

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• bowling alley

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An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.

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• lane

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The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.

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A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.

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A passageway between rows of pews in a church.

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(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.

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The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.

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A glass marble or taw.

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A person, group, or state (etc) which is associated with another for a common cause; one united to another by treaty or common purpose; a confederate.

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the two countries were allies in WWI

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A person, group, concept (etc) which is associated with another as a helper; a supporter; an auxiliary.

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Anything akin to something else by structure, etc.

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A closely related species, usually within the same family.

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Gruiformes — cranes and allies

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A relative; a kinsman.

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To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy.

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To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.

You.re going to need some allies to face what.s coming your way.

In 457 the Athenians and their allies ventured to intercept a Spartan force which was returning home from central Greece.

His army found itself a little to the north of the town near the village of Legnano, when the troops of the city, assisted only by a few allies from Piacenza, Verona, Brescia, Novara and Vercelli, met and overwhelmed it.

We have allies here and here who will support us.

Another stock, with no close allies nearer than the south of France, is found in the plain of Racconigi and Carmagnola; the mouse-colored Swiss breed occurs in the neighborhood of Milan; the Tirolese breed stretches south to Padua and Modena; and a red-coated breed named of Reggio or Friuli is familiar both in what were the duchies of Parma and Modena, and in the provinces of lJdine and Treviso.

These are true allies, unlike the others?

He turned one of my allies, Oceanan, against me, and I do not know the strengths of his followers within my own walls.

Gaston de Foix bought a doubtful victory dearly with his death; and the allies, though beaten on the banks of the Ronco, immediately afterwards expelled the French from Lombardy.

Forces, inexperienced but devoted, were soon on foot; and he informed his German allies that he would allow the Russians to advance into Central Germany so as to ensure their destruction.

The Black God and White God are becoming allies.

Their other conquests at the expense of these allies of France were restored to them, including the Cape of Good Hope to the Dutch.

The victory of Agnadello (1510) gave the allies the complete command of Venetian territory down to the shores of the lagoon.

But the mutual jealousy of the allies saved her.

But her allies failed to support her.

Close allies of the gobies are the walking (Periophthalmus), of which various species FIG.

Paphos was believed to have been founded either by the Arcadian Agapenor, returning from the Trojan War (c. 1180 B.C.), or by his reputed contemporary Cinyras, whose clan retained royal privileges down to the Ptolemaic conquest of Cyprus in 295 B.C., and held the Paphian priesthood till the Roman occupation in 58 B.C. The town certainly dates back to the close of the Mycenaean Bronze age, and had a king Eteandros among the allies of Assur-bani-pal of Assyria in 668 B.C.'

In 1792 he joined the allies against France, but in 1799 he was compelled to sign a treaty of neutrality.

In 1803, having formally surrendered the part of Hesse on the left bank of the Rhine which had been taken from him in the early days of the Revolution, Louis received in return a much larger district which had formerly belonged to the duchy of Westphalia, the electorate of Mainz and the bishopric of Worms. In 1806, being a member of the confederation of the Rhine, he took the title of Louis I., grandduke of Hesse; he supported Napoleon with troops from 1805 to 1813, but after the battle of Leipzig he joined the allies.

Barely eight months after the restoration of the Bourbons in the autumn of 1875, Sagasta accepted the new state of things, and organized the Liberal dynastic party that confronted Canovas and the Conservatives for five years in the Cortes, until the Liberal leader used the influence of his military allies, Jovellar, Campos and others, to induce the king to ask him to form a Cabinet in 1881.

He might, in the first place, have frankly admitted that the crusaders were independent allies, and treating them as equals, he might have waged war in concert with them, and divided the conquests achieved in the war.

Thus it came about that Alexius and Raymund became allies; and by the aid of Alexius Raymund established, from 1102 onwards, the principality which, with the capture of Tripoli in 1109, became the principality of Tripoli, and barred the advance of Antioch to the south.

They consented to ally themselves with the ruler of Damascus against the sultan of Egypt; but in the battle of Gaza they were deserted by their allies and heavily defeated by Bibars, the Egyptian general and future Mameluke sultan of Egypt.

On both sides was civil war, urged as fiercely as that against the common enemy, in which the parties sought allies indiscriminately among Christians and Mahommedans.

Led by Aristides and Cimon they rendered such prominent service as to receive in return the formal leadership of the Greek allies and the presidency of the newly formed Delian League.

Here a remnant of the Borinquenos, assisted by the Caribs, maintained a severe struggle with the conquerors, but in the end their Indian allies were subdued by English and French corsairs, and the unfortunate natives of Porto Rico were left alone to experience the full effect of forced labour, disastrous hurricanes, natural plagues and new diseases introduced by the conquerors.

In 1803 Raghoji joined Sindhia against the British; the result was the defeat of the allies at Assaye and Argaon, and the treaty of Deogaon, by which Raghoji had to cede Cuttack, Sambalpur and part of Berar.

Carbocyclic rings will next be treated, benzene and its allies in some detail; and finally the heterocyclic nuclei.

In the years following the peace she applied herself to finding allies in France and Russia who would help her to recover Silesia.

He encountered the allies at Fornovo, and after a drawn battle cut his way through them and was back in France by November; Ferdinand II.

A new cause of trouble arose when the duchy of Burgundy was left without a ruler in November 1361, and was claimed by Charles; but, lacking both allies and money, he was unable to prevent the French king from seizing Burgundy, while he himself returned to Navarre.

He had gone to Wesley's help at West Street after his ordination at Whitehall in 1757 and had been one of his chief allies ever since.

He is the exact opposite of the miraculous personage of later legend - a mere man, standing always on the solid ground of reality, whose only arms are trust in his God and the protection of his powerful allies.

Rhinoceros Group. - The last section of the Perissodactyla is that of the Rhinocerotoidea, represented by the modern rhinoceroses and their extinct allies.

The emperor was, moreover, imperfectly acquainted with the degree of preparation of his adversaries' designs, and when he dictated his preliminary orders he was still unaware of the direction that the allies' advance would assume.

It was also hoped that the Bavarians with their army of 25,000 men would join the allies.

The allies now confronted him with upwards of 86,000 men, including 16,000 cavalry.

The battle of Austerlitz began early next morning and closed in the evening with the thorough and decisive defeat of the allies.

Hohenlohe pointed out that the Prussians were equally badly off, but promised to do his best to help his allies.

Aware of the growing feeling against war in France, Napoleon had determined to make his allies not only bear the expenses of the coming campaign, but find the men as well, and he was so far master of Europe that of the 363,000 who on the 24th of June crossed the Niemen no Iess than two-thirds were Germans, Austrians, Poles or Italians.

Thanks to his having compelled his allies to fight his battles for him, he had not as yet drawn very heavily on the fighting resources of France, the actual percentage of men taken by the conscriptions during the years since 1806 being actually lower than that in force in continental armies of to-day.

The allies, aware of the gradual strengthening of their enemy's forces but themselves as yet unable to put more than 200,000 in the field, had left a small corps of observation opposite Magdeburg and along the Elbe to give timely notice of an advance towards Berlin; and with the bulk of their forces had taken up a position about Dresden, whence they had determined to march down the course of the Elbe and roll up the French from right to left.

The Prussians are our faithful allies who have only betrayed us three times in three years.

Will a messenger make it to our allies?

Not enough to defeat my father and his allies.

Battle erupted to the north, and the hidden Dierdirien warriors erupted from the forest to challenge Memon's allies.

On his release he had promised he would maintain the treaty of Arras and withdraw from the Netherlands; but he delayed his departure for nearly a year and took part in a punitive campaign against his captors and their allies.

He used the Lombards in his struggle with the Greeks, leaving to his successors the duty of checking these unnatural allies.

Can Grande della Scalas death in the next year inflicted on, the Lombard Ghibellines a loss hardly inferior to that of Castruccios on their Tuscan allies.

After Solferino the allies prepared to besiege the Quadrilateral.

C. Farini was chosen dictator, and 4000 Modenese joined the allies.