Enemies

Examples

• Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• However, I determined to cut all public amusements as soon as I knew Worcester to be in contact with the enemies of old England. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It is inconceivable that this fellow could have made two such vindictive enemies as these appear to be without knowing of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Our enemies were a good half-hour behind us with no conception of our direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• These were not enemies; they were born among us, and yet we have killed them all. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Emma, why is it that they are your enemies? Jane Austen. Emma.
• His case will be still worse, if you suppose him to be everywhere surrounded and watched by enemies. Plato. The Republic.
• I have no enemies, replied Carriston, with great dignity; but even if I had, I would forgive them freely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Classicalism and invention are irreconcilable enemies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• They were made to pronounce the word Shibboleth and were easily detected as enemies when they pronounced it Sibboleth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Lord, help us to follow his steps, and love our enemies. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He will be in the midst of his enemies. Plato. The Republic.
• He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• If the general of our enemies be successful, it is with difficulty we allow him the figure and character of a man. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Here again was given a most convincing demonstration of the truth that such an addition to the resources of mankind always carries with it unsuspected benefits even for its enemies. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They will use friendly correction, but will not enslave or destroy their opponents; they will be correctors, not enemies? Plato. The Republic.
• He makes enemies; that's all I hear of his making. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Under a series of wise men and heroes they wage a generally unsuccessful and never very united warfare against their enemies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You have enemies enough already. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• One can preserve the decencies, even to one's enemies: for one's own sake. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We cannot, even against our enemies, take advantage of an act of God. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Or perhaps he may tell a lie because he is afraid of enemies? Plato. The Republic.
• He praises your hard spirit, your determined cast of mind, your scorn of low enemies, your resolution not 'to truckle to the mob,' as he says. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And to this day the stone remains, an illegible monument of Mr. Pickwick's greatness, and a lasting trophy to the littleness of his enemies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But there are nations so cowardly that they dare not merely conquer their enemies; they must _mak siccar_ and destroy them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now I am so pressed by the Guises and my own people that _I am constrained_ to deliver you up into the hands of your enemies, and to-morrow you will be burned unless you are converted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• And are our friends to be only the good, and our enemies to be the evil? Plato. The Republic.
• It is then the interest of the enemies of this potentate to secure and publish this letter, so as to make a breach between his country and ours? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You say, Hector, you have no enemies. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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