This Scotchman wascombative and stubborn enough for his race, and equally its representative in good sense and uprightness.
I immediately understood that he must be won over, and my combative instinct had recourse to all my powers of fascination in order to vanquish this delightful but bashful savant.
He possessed immense courage and was an excellent fighter; but, like many men of combative disposition, he was tactless and turbulent.
The wisdom and justice of resistance appealed immediately to the mind of Flaccus, whose combative instincts found their natural satisfaction in the prospect of an interchange of blows.
It is very common among gregarious animals that are at all combative in disposition, and still survives in our domestic cattle, although very rarely witnessed in England.
He goes his way, he acts, he takes aim, because a combative instinct makes him prefer the chase to the nostalgic siesta.
These traits are supplemented by an ardent love of others, a highly developed moral sensitiveness, a profound sentiment of justice, an alert logical faculty, and pronounced combative tendencies.
Many wear habitually a sullen scowl, hateful and suspicious, which in men of combative age, and often in the old women, is sinister and vindictive.
The average mountain woman is as combative in spirit as her menfolk.
The average highlander is fiery and combative by nature, but at the same time cunning and vindictive.
Even these occasional exhibitions of fury are not found among all breeds of dogs, and among many individuals even of the combative strains of blood the motive of battle appears to have quite passed away.
They have, moreover, lost the fierce combative spirit which characterizes their ancestors and which by selection has been preserved and intensified in our breeds of game-cocks.
The most remarkable alteration which has been brought about in the minds of these creatures consists in the very great diminution in the combative motive of the males.
Inheritance of Acquired Traits ΒΆ Thus the more combative jaw, having become permanent in the man's organism, can be passed on to his children.
The large jaw always goes with a combative nature, whether it is found on a man or a woman, a child, a pugilist or a minister.
I believed him,--one glance at his vivid face and combative eyes convinced me.
For long decades thecombative side in human affairs had been monstrously exaggerated by the accidents of political separation.
Small as he is, he disturbs me by that combative stare of his.
I shouldn't so much mind being actively and martially snubbed, for that would give me something definite and tangible to grow combative over.
There is the same jolly humour, the same combative self-assertiveness, the same retort Tu quoque, with a yet more earnest and pungent enforcement.
He must be both bold and cautious, combative and cool.
A clean combative strain in their blood, and a natural turn for adventure, made the ordinary anaemic routine of shop or warehouse or factory almost unbearable for them.
The taxi driver, who seemed to have combative instincts, slowed down as he was turning into the Mall, and pointed to the white pile of memorial statuary in front of the palace gates.
His temper was violent and passionate; he could bear no attack on the ideas which were dear to him, and became combative as soon as he thought them threatened.
Of another combativememory I can be more specific, for my recollection of it is positively photographic.
A red spot rose to his cheek as he reviewed the martial, combative days; the game of arms he had played so often with Francis--and won!
I mean the coarse, vulgar, combative sort of courage that makes men prizefighters and bargees; for as to the grander species of courage, I imagine it to be my distinguishing feature.
I am full certain that almost all of us enter upon what is called the world in too combative a spirit We are too fond of dragon slaying, and rather than be disappointed of our sport, we 'd fall foul of a pet lamb, for want of a tiger.
Captain Costigan has now combative rank in the 10th Battalion, and is acting as Brigade Bombing Officer.
With its first great refinement, in becoming the fight for mateship, the combative instinct was still more valuable to evolution.
Then she seemed in a flash to learn the whole lesson of our combative civilisation.
The combative instinct is recognised as a part of human nature, a necessary and valuable part.
The Pacific has seen the tragedy of one nation which, having won to a suave and graceful civilisation, came to utter ruin through the elimination of the combative instinct from its people.
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