It was conspicuous in all of the many combats in which it was engaged, and Hood soon came on for promotion to one of the divisions of Longstreet's corps.
No doubt, something of Shakspeare's punning must be attributed to his age, in which direct and formal combats of wit were a favourite pastime of the courtly and accomplished.
And yet, when in calm retirement we peruse the combats described by Homer or Tasso, we are insensibly seduced by the fiction, and feel a momentary glow of martial ardor.
The festival was protracted by theatrical representations, the games of the circus, the hunting of wild beasts, combats of gladiators, and naval engagements.
And still more distinctly was Christianity opposed to such outrages upon human dignity as the gladiatorial combats in the arena.
In a third the poet more seriously combats the belief in purgatory as unscriptural.
I assure you that I shall not be anxious to attend all the festivities and combats that are to take place during these next days.
But, as he scorned to take any further advantage of a sleeping foe, he patiently awaited the giant's awakening to engage in one of those combats which the mediaeval poets loved to describe.
The increasing sound is borne to either shore, And for their stakes the throwing nations fear; Their passions double with the cannons' roar, And with warm wishes each man combats there.
Frederick, in his letters to the kings of France and England, mentions and combats strongly this ridiculous prejudice, and the foolish pretensions of the popes.
Even the most timid during the season of love "engage in desperate combats with each other for the possession of the female, and she, although comparatively passive, nevertheless often exercises a choice, selecting one of the rivals.
He combatsthe view of ROSIN, Der Begriff der Schwertmagen, §5.
While waiting for the day of definite peace among nations, it combats the militarist spirit by doing its utmost to approximate the system of permanent armies to that of national militias.
Nubian and Cushite, as he proceeded, and from time to time distinguishing himself in personal combats with his enemies.
Already, in the lifetime of his father, he had distinguished himself in combatswith the Petti and the Sakti.
The grand sculptures wherewith a king strove to perpetuate the memory of his warlike exploits were travestied by satirists, who reproduced the scenes upon papyrus as combats between cats and rats.
Almost immediately there developed a series of fights that lasted during a whole year and were really among the bloodiest and most murderous combats of the war.
For days and nights it had lain under bombardment and repeatedly fierce, hand-to-hand combats had been fought in its streets.
About the middle of May matters quieted down in the eastern sector; the only fighting of importance consisted of severe artillery combatsaround Czernowitz and Kolomea.
He combats the common notion of relief, as belonging only to the infancy of the art, and shows the advance made by Coreggio and Rembrandt; though the first manner of Coreggio, as well as of Leonardo da Vinci and Georgione, was dry and hard.
Mr Burnet has added but two or three notes to this Discourse--they are unimportant, with the exception of the last, wherein he combats Sir Joshua's theory of the cold and warm colours.
This wholesome but less inspiring endeavor, which combats one of the greatest evils that under modern civilization threatens man's physical weal, is in some respects as easy and practical as it is useful.
In the local combats which make up the general battle the better endurance, use of ground, fire efficiency, discipline, and training will win.
Combats that do not promise success or some real advantage to the general issue should be avoided; they cause unnecessary losses, impair the morale of one's own troops, and raise that of the enemy.
Avoid combats that offer no chance of victory or other valuable results.
It can not combat the enemy's artillery, and it is at a disadvantage if it combats the defender's long-range rifle fire.
The morning spectacle," consecrated to the combats of animals, presented an appearance hitherto unknown.
St. Justin in his Apologies never combats the principle of empire.
Later on, neo-Hebraic poets again show acquaintance with the regulations governing song-combats and courts of love.
Two or more combats a day in the air came to be a common occurrence with Lufbery, and many times he returned to the base with his machine full of holes and his clothing cut by German bullets.
However, here is his record as piled up in five months at the front: One hundred and ten single combats with German fliers.
He did not particularly enjoy gladiatorial combats of men, although Titus during the youthful sports which were celebrated in his own land had once had a sham fight in heavy armor with Alienus.
Vitellius witnessed gladiatorial combats at Lugdunum and again at Cremona, as if the crowds of men who had perished in the battles and were even then exposed unburied to the elements did not suffice.
At first, the men who were compelled to maintain these combats were convicts, who were condemned to them as a punishment for their crimes.
The spectacles which were exhibited by the ancients in such buildings as these were real combats of beasts with one another, or of beasts with men, and sometimes of men with one another.
The place where thecombats took place was a level spot in the centre, called the arena.
In another part of the town were the remains of two theatres, and outside the walls an immense amphitheatre, where were exhibited the combats of wild beasts, and those of the gladiators.
The result of the combats at Chioggia, though fatal to it in the long-run, did not at once destroy the naval importance of Genoa.
Within thirty hours this force stormed an intrenched camp, fought a general action, and sustained two considerable combats with the enemy.
A lower ridge between these two was called the Fore Ridge, upon which at either end were the slight defences of the Barrier and Sandbag Battery, both destined ere long to become famous--“the scene of one of the bloodiest combats in history.
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