1786 A. Hughes Zoriada III. xxx. 18 Lord Drew was so much dissatisfied with himself for his conduct, or rather, perhaps, for the catastrophe of it, Martha having published all his manœuverings.

1787 I. Landmann tr. F. C. von Saldern Elements Tacticks iii. 170 The advancing and manœuvring with a line, will never be well performed, if the battalions are not so perfectly well exercised.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. v. 93 Speaking from my own observation, it [sc. marriage] is a manœuvring business. View more context for this quotation

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. x. 520 The Campaign passed into a series of advancings, retreatings [etc.], painful manœuvrings, on both sides of the Rhine.

1883 R. B. Smith Life Ld. Lawrence I. 178 The reputation which John Lawrence acquired..by the masterly manœuvring of a small body of police.

1915 J. Turner Let. July in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 16 A week of..long marches and much manoeuvring and attacks by night.

1939 Archit. Rev. 85 52/3 The parade ground manoeuvrings of redcoated guards.

1988 Seahorse Sept.–Oct. 71/1 Apparently the mainstream newspapers find the combination of greed, avarice and legalistic manoeuvring either distasteful or uninteresting.

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xvi. 122 This manœuvring lady represented this report as being universally known and believed, in hopes of frightening her niece into an immediate match with the baronet.

1822 J. Jekyll Let. 9 Feb. (1971) 346 Mrs. Lock was one of the manoeuvring mothers who wanted to draw him in for her daughter.

1885 E. Fawcett Buntling Ball 25 Chorus of Maneuvering Mammas. With subtle scheming Our brains are teeming.

1944 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 48 488 The ‘flight envelope’ covers all probable conditions of symmetrical manœuvring flight instead of the few isolated points specified in the previous system.

1965 P. O'Donnell Modesty Blaise iii. 32 She looked towards the manœuvring scrum at the bar.

1991 T. Dupuy How to defeat Saddam Hussein xii. 119 This scenario..is intended..to put more emphasis on maneuver by carrying out a double-envelopment, using armor as the maneuvering force on the left.