Combatants

Examples

• He at once threw himself on the astonished combatants, with his accustomed energy, and loudly called upon the bystanders to interpose. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The women and non-combatants were carried to Salamis and various adjacent islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The splendid armour of the combatants was now defaced with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They lay where they had fallen between the combatants. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The slaves, the non-combatants, one-third of the whole, were required to work in the field without regard to sex, and almost without regard to age. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Our place is with the non-combatants. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The combatants, who make bull-fighting their profession, march into the arena in procession. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He looked ready for anything in the way of an obstructive proceeding--capable even of keeping the peace with Rachel for one of the combatants! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Both combatants were suffering from the want and disorganization that follow naturally and necessarily upon all great wars. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter; and the combatants were driven from the court-yard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Is it thus that Greece Rewards her combatants? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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