And as I moved to take my place in the dance, I was presently confronted by my school adversary and the partner she had immediately found.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
As the two armies occupied heights fronting each other, neither could attack without giving to its adversary some advantage in the ground; and this was an advantage which neither seemed willing to relinquish.
This circumstance enabled Arnold to keep up the engagement until night, when Captain Pringle discontinued it, and anchored his whole fleet in a line, as near the vessels of his adversary as was practicable.
To guard against that spirit of enterprise which his adversary had displayed to such advantage, General Howe determined to strengthen his posts by contracting them.
Before six cities, resisting as Saragossa hath resisted during her two sieges, the whole of the military power of the adversary would melt away.
I have shewn in what manner it was their wish that the struggle with the adversary of all that is good should be maintained--by pure passions and high actions.
He had already tricked the Devil when the compact was signed, for instead of signing it with his own blood, he had signed it with cock's blood, and his short-sighted adversary had not noticed the difference.
Yet I meet my adversaryin the flesh, and find that he treats me not only with courtesy, but with no inconsiderable amount of sympathy.
In an old controversy which I was reading the other day, one of the disputants observed that his adversary held that the world was going from bad to worse.
That adversary was soon to realize, however, how gravely he had misjudged both his Prisoner and those on whom he had lavished his favors.
It is undoubtedly absurd to perish here, like some unreasonable adversary of the Borgias.
Alessandro was languidly amused, and had begun to regard his adversarywith real curiosity.
He had secretly given orders that Louis d'Orleans should be released, and went to meet and be reconciled with this dangerous adversary of his sister.
The pride of her Breton adversary was broken, and he did not long survive the treaty; some have declared that he died of chagrin at being no longer able to betroth his daughters first to one suitor and then to another.
He who fears not to call his adversary a criminal," says he in his usual forcible language, "must be ready to follow the word with a blow.
Many parishes throughout the canton had done the same; and the avoyer d'Erlach, the great adversaryof the Reformation, could no longer keep the torrent within bounds.
A determined adversary of the Roman policy, he thought that the Protestants might render important services to Christendom.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour; whom resist steadfast in the faith.
He freed his weapon, made a lunge, and touched his adversary on the shoulder.
He went therefore to his appointment with Athos without a second, determined to be satisfied with those his adversary should choose.
The conditions required that at every hit the man touched should quit the game, yielding his turn for the benefit of the adversary who had hit him.
All three remounted their horses, and set out at a good pace, while Porthos was promising his adversary to perforate him with all the thrusts known in the fencing schools.
Treville's surgeon, was seated on a post and waiting for his adversary with hat in hand, his feather even touching the ground.
I do not understand, my Lord," said she, in order to gain time and make her adversary speak out.
As to d'Artagnan, he fought purely and simply on the defensive; and when he saw his adversary pretty well fatigued, with a vigorous side thrust sent his sword flying.
This is what the gentleman's admission proved; but I do not come here to argue upon admissions, whether candid or unguarded, of the adversary speakers.
We have been urged to this from no desire to enter into the lists with an adversary sustained by all the resources which boundless wealth affords.
Again, if a man goes to law with his parent or patron, or if one partner brings an action of partnership against another, he cannot get judgement for more than his adversary is able to pay.
Winnie had risen by this time, and was confronting her adversary with a look almost capable of annihilating a less daring foe than Ada Irvine.
When but a small boy, I used to think that I cast the most odious reproach upon an adversarywhen I termed him a coward, and this morning I felt that the same stigma might be justly affixed to myself.
For though he has sent me a gallant adversaryfor the first, the thought in Mr. Simon's mind is merely murder.
There is, moreover, an ever-present danger that the sophistry or eloquence of an adversary may give him the appearance of victory to the discredit of the faith, for even a foolish person can raise difficulties which only a wise man can answer.
La Valette, who made no secret of his desire to take his department from him; it cost him still more, probably, to allow such an open adversary as M.
Oftentimes, upon an Arrest, if the Creditor stand not by, they will let the partie escape for a Brace of Angels, or so; and tell his adversary that he cannot set eye on him.
I expected now that my imaginary adversary would be upon me, and cut my throat before I could recover my legs, wherefore I started up, and found my mortal foe up before me, and upon the run.
For to grin and not bite, doth but perswade an Adversary to knock out those teeth that may prove some time or other injurious.
My adversary visiting me, I treated with him about my releasment, offering him what I had, which was neer upon half; but his resolution was to have all, or there I must lie.
He saw that his victorious adversarywas indeed a pig, but such a pig!
He gained no glimpse of the quarry even at this pace; but at least he had the satisfaction of knowing, from the increased heaviness of the footprints and the lengthening of the stride, that he was forcing his adversaryto make haste.
The killing of so redoubtable an adversary as the weasel must have become known, in some mysterious fashion, for thenceforward no more of the small marauders of the forest ventured to challenge the new lordship of the clearing.
