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Example sentences for "civil discord"

  • The eight years of his sole and peaceful reign were usefully employed in banishing the vices of civil discord, and restoring on a firmer basis the fabric of the Ottoman monarchy.

  • Yet these domestic misfortunes, which are seldom the lot of a vanquished people, had been felt and inflicted by the Romans themselves, not only in the insolence of foreign conquest, but in the madness of civil discord.

  • Alaric had left behind him an infant son, a bastard competitor, factious nobles, and a disloyal people; and the remaining forces of the Goths were oppressed by the general consternation, or opposed to each other in civil discord.

  • In the age of Roman virtue the provinces were subject to the arms, and the citizens to the laws, of the republic; till those laws were subverted by civil discord, and both the city and the province became the servile property of a tyrant.

  • Already the south of France, agitated by civil discord, and precipitated into a fearful war, was in a state of terrible conflict.

  • In the tumult of civil discord, the laws of society lose their force, and their place is seldom supplied by those of humanity.

  • Before the wounds of civil discord could be healed, the provinces of Gaul were overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.

  • His salutary influence restored the cities of Gaul, which had been so long exposed to the evils of civil discord, Barbarian war, and domestic tyranny; and the spirit of industry was revived with the hopes of enjoyment.

  • In the blind fury of civil discord, Constantius had abandoned to the Barbarians of Germany the countries of Gaul, which still acknowledged the authority of his rival.

  • In case of civil discord I have already told you it was seriously my opinion that you could not remain neuter; and that you would be obliged in self defence, to take part on one side or the other, or withdraw from the continent.

  • So inauspicious was the aspect of affairs, as to inspire serious fears that the torch of civil discord, about to be lighted up in Massachusetts, would communicate its flame to all New England, and perhaps to the union.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    civil and religious liberty; civil authority; civil causes; civil court; civil engineer; civil government; civil life; civil office; civil power; civil practice; civil servant; civil service; civil suits; civil war; civil wars; civilian rule; civilised nations; civilized community; civilized peoples; coarse pottery; fever bird; gold reserve; here the; other branches; shell thick; tailed deer