"Studied as curiosities," I told them. "But anyhow, we want food. So now for a sortie!"
A sortie was not so easy. The bathroom only opened into our chamber, and that had but one outlet, a big heavy door, which was fastened. We listened. "There's someone outside," Jeff suggested. "Let's knock."
So we knocked, whereupon the door opened. Outside was another large room, furnished with a great table at one end, long benches or couches against the wall, some smaller tables and chairs.英文原著 · 《Herland》
Another sortie and another. Bit by bit the porch is ripped and torn to rubbish. You smile. It seems so futile. What are these kindlings saved when the whole house is burning? Is this what you call heroism? Yet the charge at Balaklava was not more futile. It had even less of commonsense, less of hope of benefit to mankind to back it and inspire it.英文原著 · 《Back Home》
The rabble-rout, being unprepared for such a sortie, fled in all directions, over hedge and ditch.英文原著 · 《Crotchet Castle》
A few hours afterwards, the enemy having made a sortie, Anselme went out against them sword in hand, and was struck on the forehead by a stone from a Turkish sling, which sent him to heaven, to the beautiful palace that was prepared for him."英文原著 · 《Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions-2》