Fights

Examples

• The Pal?olithic Age was an age of fights and murder, no doubt, but not of the organized collective fighting of numbers of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I was there when Finito had a contract for three fights at the Feria. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In Siam these fish are kept in glass globes, as we keep goldfish, for the purpose of fighting, and an extravagant amount of gambling takes place about the result of the fights. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the French Admiralty refused to sustain him, one old admiral saying, Thank God, France still fights her battles on the surface, not beneath it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As he fights he wins approval and advancement; as he refrains, he is disliked, ridiculed, shut out from favorable recognition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Rawdon marvelled over his stories about school, and fights, and fagging. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Its tactics are like those of the Indian who fights under cover or lies in ambush for his enemy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Bull-fights are among the favorite diversions of the Spaniards. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, until Macmurdo came down and joined the boys and the conversation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They were much given to festivals and shows, and, in particular, they were addicted to bull-fights and gymnastic entertainments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The sea trade of India had previously been in the hands of the Red Sea Arabs, and the Portuguese won it from them in a series of sea fights. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A notion of intellectual honor fights against it: we think we must aim at final truth, and not allow autobiography to creep into speculation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• All of the technical, expert, and professional skill and knowledge that money could procure or experience devise were availed of in the bitter fights that raged in the courts for many years. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• During one of my recent visits to Mexico, bull fights were got up in my honor at Puebla and at Pachuca. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Egyptian monuments record great sea fights, and also a march of these people along the coast of Palestine towards Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When he fights me for his hat, he is fighting me for his liberty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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