Antagonists

Examples

• My reply was a quick thrust which left me but three antagonists and I can assure you that they were worthy of my metal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Thereafter Heraclius slowly relinquished all Syria, which he had so lately won back from the Persians, to his new antagonists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I say that, on that day, each knight ran three courses, and cast to the ground three antagonists. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We had just finished the last of our immediate antagonists as he spoke, and I turned in surprised wonderment at the sound of my name. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• These two men had formerly been bitter antagonists; but with a generosity rare in those days, they forgot their differences before the common danger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• World power or downfall was their formula; it gave their antagonists no alternative but a fight to a conclusive end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That is why they are such terrible antagonists in combat. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I put the thought of death out of my mind, and fell upon my antagonists with fury that those who escaped will remember to their dying day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Edited by Barton