Contended

Examples

• If two dissimilar metals could be decomposed and power at the same time produced they contended that practical work might be done with the force. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The day waned into a gloomy evening, overcast and sad, and I still contended with the same distress. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The cruiser is the result of the triumph of those who contended for high speed at the sacrifice of heavy armor protection and excessive battery strength. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I contended with my inward dimness of vision, before which clouds yet rolled. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Having nothing, so it is thought, to do with mental activity, it becomes a distraction, an evil to be contended with. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For a time hunger and sleep contended, till the constellations reeled before my eyes and then were lost. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She withdrew her veil, and looked on them with a countenance in which bashfulness contended with dignity. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince their loyal homage and the kiss of peace. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Edison narrates two incidents that may be taken as characteristic of a good deal that had to be contended with, coming in the shape of nefarious attack. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There was a hurry, too, in all his thoughts, a turbulent and heated working of his heart, that contended against resignation. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Physicians, after having for ages contended that the sick should not be indulged with fresh air, have at length discovered that it may do them good. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• His confidence in her, sat more easily upon him than the indecision with which he had twice contended. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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