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sortie
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Definition:The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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So then, suddenly, his daughter would leap out, as though from a beleaguered city, would make a sortie, turn the street corner, and, having risked her life a hundred times over, reappear and bring us, with a jug of liquorice-water, the news that there were still at least a thousand of them, pouring along without a break from the direction of Thiberzy and Méséglise.
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