come to close quarters

At last he would come to close quarters with Life.

With these men they never came to close quarters, so that no lives were lost.

He was struck long before the troops came to close quarters.

I had not the slightest desire, therefore, to come to close quarters with him again.

When the fight came to close quarters, he would make them howl on a different note.

Till it came to close quarters, the defenders were sitting game.

I long to come to close quarters with him.

Stay at long range and scattereddon't come to close quarters with them.

He was a fine, dashing, handsome fellow; I had often seen him, but we never came to close quarters.

Hence the indisposition on either side to take the initiative in coming to close quarters.

Can we but come to close quarters with the enemy, I think we shall break through somewhere along the line.

Pique at first tried to avoid an action, but eventually the two ships came to close quarters in the early hours of 5 January.

Much sparring, Conscience not quite so confident, and apparently afraid to come to close quarters with this man.

Parker, however, was employing the practices taught by Hoyt when play came to close quarters.

As the vessels came to close quarters, a package was thrown overboard from the latter.

It gave The Shadow the few vital moments he needed to come to close quarters with his enemy.

I should not wish to come to close quarters with an article such as that until far starboard of breakfast time.'

Do not come to close quarters with the capitalist beast, advised these wary hunters, until you are sure that it has died a natural death.

They would not need to come to close quarters; they could stand off fifty or sixty yards and shoot them down with arrows.

Rambehisht had cannily saved his arrows till the fighting came to close quarters.

He was still too badly scared to come to close quarters with the dazzling and resplendent creatures his own millions made accessible.

He briefly wondered why the gun crews did not come to closer quarters and blast the Rivington men from their holes with case shot.

He had a decent number of archers with him today, too; he wouldn't have to come to close quarters to hurt the Khamorth.

They came to closer quarters.

They are poor archers, but when it comes to close quarters, they are the best axe men on the face of the earth.