Combats
[kɒmbæts]
Examples
- Then came the tale of hair-breadth escapes, combats with dogs, ambush and flight, as gipsey-like we encompassed our pot. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These early Greeks of the _Iliad_ are sturdy fighters, but without discipline--their battles are a confusion of single combats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The taste for these combats grew rapidly, and the wars supplied an abundance of captives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His first act was to make me a full-fledged chieftain with the rank I had won by my combats the first few weeks of my captivity among them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- This part of the Course was usually lightened by several single combats between Biddy and refractory students. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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