line of retreat
retreat line

I think you should have left him an out, a line of retreat.

Now the city was on the main line of retreat.

The first thing was to stop the northern line of retreat.

Someone who might have been afraid to close off his line of retreat!

"This is the line of retreat you were talking about?"

She soon had its line of retreat clearly defined in her mind.

They had already cut off every line of retreat from the inevitable.

But his line of retreat was closed by the guards!

But at least he'd managed to offer a line of retreat from an impossible position.

You'd have no line of retreat at all, said Aide.

He was safe, for the moment, and there were lines of retreat laid.

And if things go wrong, we'll have a real line of retreat open."

You have said guides - certainly: other lines of retreat, yes.

The bird was moving swiftly now, but in an almost straight line of retreat.

The only line of retreat possible was through the narrow valley at their rear.

Their main line of retreat lay through a pass controlled by the village.

His men fell back, glancing over their shoulders for a line of retreat.

"The enemy has cut us off from our line of retreat.

In a few words Travis had blocked her line of retreat.

Soon the line of retreat would be cut off.

He had always left himself a line of retreat.

He ordered a second barrier to be built, a decision that cut off his own line of retreat.

But at this moment the prince was called back to clear his line of retreat on Oxford.

It is always a good idea to have a line of retreat laid out."

Don't worry, she's just marking out a line of retreat.

Something was venturing out on the still-wet sand, following the retreating line of the sea.

He was forced to abandon his wounded, though some bleeding and broken men still tried to crawl or limp back with the retreating line.

Heinrici kept a map on which he had drawn five north-to-south retreat lines, running from the Oder back to the west.

She shouted to them to dismount and led them forward to stiffen the retreating line of archers.

As the formations began to close now, a hail of arrows from the Imperial fleet fell upon the retreating line of barges.

Both land and water were mined, and the Germans defended their retreating line with artillery and snipers.

Retreat Line, Mindeno Variation: 1.

A heartbeat later, to his surprise and horror, the man in front of him stepped back, pushed almost off his feet by a surge from his own retreating line.

A 2-4-2T version, Class S, was designed for the narrow gauge Ballymena and Larne and the Retreat lines.

He dropped out of the retreating line and pulled his pack off his back, offering no explanation to Danica, Rufo, and the dwarven brothers as they moved beside him.

A vajra attack force was a small elite squad of mounted and wheeled warriors supported by a retreat line of elephants, divided into sections of one elephant, eight horsemen, and one chariot each.

However, the situation changed on 19 October, with the untimely explosion of a bridge over the Elster, the main retreat line for the French rearguard, which was now blocked in the city of Leipzig.