The desert is a hard road, but in our case it keepsenemies away.
He raised himself just a little more, careful to make no noise, and watched the jaguar stealing through the tall grass, so intent on the horse that it failed to notice the most dangerous of allenemies who lay near.
The townsfolk raise a cheer; and begin to exchange exultant looks, with a presentiment of triumph as they see their Pastor speaking with their enemies in the gate.
If all my enemies were like Mrs. Anderson I should be the best Christian in America.
More accursed even than our enemies are ye; for they are ignorant and wander in darkness; but the light of truth shone before you, and ye have not followed it.
And if the enemies be more than we, shall we, instead of hewing them down, suffer them to take us in their snares?
No one drove our enemies save their evil consciences, for their unbelief made them afraid, and they fled to escape from the sight of the true believers.
Accordingly, the independence of most of these mountain tribes has been maintained from the earliest times to the present against all the attempts of their enemies of the plains.
Of this united church Schamyl is the head, he is acknowledged as the second great prophet and Allah's vicegerent, appointed to defeat his enemies and to maintain the liberty originally granted by him to the sons of the mountains.
The ramifications of the secret service of ourenemies are indeed amazing.
You offered me in exchange for my love a secret which would enable me to defeat the enemies of my country, and probably cause my advancement in the diplomatic service.
I cannot imagine how it is possible that our enemies could have obtained sight of the despatch, even for an instant," I said.
Anxious as I am to save England from the net which her unscrupulous enemies have spread for her, I refuse to do so at the cost of your happiness.
Our enemies must not obtain any inkling that we know the truth, if we are to effect a successful counter-plot.
It is our duty to know all who are theenemies of England.
The betrayal of their secret made it plain that after all she was really mine; for she had now defied her enemies and had placed her life in deadly jeopardy for my sake.
Of all the men in the whole world who were my enemies the man Wolf was the bitterest; and next to him was this dark-faced Italian, with whom he had been walking so confidentially arm-in-arm.
They are spies and enemiesof our country and our Queen, Edith," I urged.
Every savage, well aware that his own totem is the hiding-place of his soul, knows that the totems of his enemies are the hiding-places of their souls.
His enemies will then die, when he is lucky enough to destroy their 'soul-boxes.
You injured me and mine beyond the reach of recovery; and now you put yourself into my hands--with your enemies outside!
He knows his enemiesare so hungry, so afraid he will get away or that somebody else will catch him, that they jump for him the moment he shows a whisker.
They live much now in the trees, which they dislike; but with a score of hungry enemies prowling for them day and night, what can a poor grouse do?
Most of his enemies can dig, to be sure, but his tunnel winds about in such a way that they never can tell from the looks of his doorway where it leads to; and there are no snakes in the wilderness to follow and find out.
Now he only turned his head and lifted it wearily, as if to get away from the intolerable smell of his dog enemies that lay dying under his very nose.
That he lives and thrives in the wilderness, spite of enemies and hunger and winter cold, is a tribute to his wits.
From all these enemies Tookhees has one refuge, the little arched nest beyond the pretty doorway under the mossy stone.
So, with all these enemies waiting to catch him the moment he ventures out, Tookhees must needs make one or two false starts in order to find out where the coast is clear.
The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the entire world.
Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know.
This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M.
But there are those who will do much for theirenemies out of fear, though they will do nothing for their friends out of love.
Thus was it that among hisenemies the happiness of Robinson's life was destroyed.
Instantly, the armies that now confront you must run home to protect their estates, and must stay there, and your enemies will disappear.
But so simple a labor as a house being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay.
This done, he would start on foot in the direction of Clyde Station to get assistance and return before hisenemies discovered it.
Read about enemies sending a man exploding bombs, and blowing him to pieces.
And, with all this, I have made more enemies than I ever before had in my life, and estranged half of my friends and acquaintances.
Were his enemiesstill so implacable, and what could they do?
Great anger and rage possessed him at their sight, because of the multitude of his foes, because of the number of his enemies [2]and opponents, and because of the few that were to avenge his sores and his wounds upon them.
And he went into the midst of the ranks and mowed down huge walls of the corpses of his foes [1]and enemies and opponents[1] in a great circle round about the host.
Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb.
Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning.
He whips the water with his tail and his front fins with tremendous force, snorts powerful streams out of the nostrils of his colossal head; dives under and shoots up in an endeavor to shake off his enemies and to dispatch them with his fins.
It sometimes attaches itself to a Shark by means of this strange disk, and makes long voyages on this monstrous locomotive Fish, without fatigue or danger; for its enemies are kept a distance by fear of the fierce monster which carries it.
This Fish is the common prey of the more voracious Fishes, such as the Shark, and also of the Sea-birds; its enemies abound in the air and water.
This is doubtless a measure of security against small Mammals, especially the rodents, the natural enemies of their family.
Being unable to buffet both with the sea and the enemies which surrounded him, the poor sailor perished before the very eyes of his comrades.
Among the most formidable enemies of the Humming-bird may be reckoned the Monster Spider, which spins its web round their nests, and devours eggs or young; even the old Birds are sometimes its victims.
Yet it will make the farmers enemies to the cause.
Little I dreamed I'd ever break faith, or make friends of the enemies of my king, but the times are disloyal, and I suppose one must go with them.
And at the same time it was voted to take precautionary proceedings against all the other enemies of the country.
Shame upon thee, Janice Meredith, for liking the enemiesof thy country!
Instructing those that oppose themselves," --the purport of his argument being the duty of the whole community to join hands in resisting the enemies of the land.
And yet, methinks Heaven might feel under obligation to do something for the man who has made it his life-task to hold its enemies in check.
Spare me the mention of my reasons; but the circumstance that you always opened your house to the Spanish party must fill the King's enemies with distrust of you.
At the sight of this treasure Hartog readily consented to assist the king of the islands against his enemies by every means in his power, and an agreement was come to accordingly.
He had heard of the buccaneers, who were known to be the most inveterate enemies of Spain, and, in order to join them, he fitted out a frigate which he placed at their disposal, together with his own services.
The strangers that were coming were supposed, from their numbers, and from the manner in which they were mounted, to be enemies or robbers.
At first the voyagers doubted whether these were the friends whom they had come to meet or whether they were enemies lying in wait to entrap them.
If Burke had been the Irish adventurer that his enemies described, he might well have seized with impatience the opening to office that the recent exhibition of his powers in the House of Commons had now made accessible to him.
For this is the peculiarity of the king's first victory over the enemieswho had done obstinate battle with him for nearly a quarter of a century.
But these mortal enemies of its very constitution were at this time the majority of the House.
Over and over his little ship went in chase of the Spaniards, who were England's greatest enemies at this time.
Men who were the enemies of Ang did not dare come near his cave for fear of the red knives which guarded it.
When the men of the forest heard that theirenemies were marching upon them, they gathered to defend their rights as freemen.
Somerset's enemies came after him, and presented to Edward all their charges against the cruel, ambitious Protector.
A shield ought to have on it some frightful thing, so that the very sight of it may make the enemies of its wearer tremble.
But Seymour's enemies were too strong for him; he was shut up in the tower, and Somerset so influenced the child king that he consented to have his kind uncle condemned to death.
In this latter case numerous chickens and two or three pigs are sacrificed, and ceremonies like those against enemies are performed.
Should a village fail to cast a spear in these circumstances at such a party, the people of it would be held as enemies and accomplices of the members of the war party.
One of the enemies then gives the other an areca nut, and his courtesy is returned by his enemy giving him a betel leaf.
Let not them who were enemies be afflicted with coughings, shortness of breath, quick-coming fatigue, bleeding from the nose, nor labored breathing.
The chewing of betels together by the reconciled enemies is the essential part of the peace-making ceremony.
The hot sun blazed down on him as the American patiently crept from the shelter of one rock to another, but neither sign nor sound of his enemies could he detect.
The fight was finished, he had no enemies left, and he lay there weak and unstrung, his head resting on his blood-stained hands.
The wild Indians were enemies of the house-people then, same as now.
Again he paused and listened for the sound of possible enemies approaching; but he could hear nothing whatever.
This was a different thing; now there was a fire burning in his veins that would not be satisfied till the last one of his enemies lay dead at his feet.
Don Sylva and the peons resisted courageously; but what could they do against the swarm of enemies that assailed them on every side?
The French received them boldly, however, although deafened by the horrible yells their enemies uttered, and blinded by the long barbed arrows which rained around them like hail.
Yes, as it is carried on in concert with theenemies of our nation.
In the gloom their pupils expand like those of tigers, and they distinguish their enemies as easily in the deepest shadow as in the most dazzling sunshine.
Why, then, has my son allied himself with the enemies of his nation to fight the friends of his father, the sachem?
At length light dawned on his mind; he raised his head haughtily, cast a glance of defiance toward the enemies who appeared so sure of seizing his companions, and digging the spurs into his horse, started at full speed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enemies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
