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Example sentences for "fair fight"

  • The citizens and Modocs on the east side could not stand the pressure,--looking on and seeing a fair fight, within a couple of hundred yards, without taking a part.

  • It was a fair fight, and he's the best man in the state in a fair fight.

  • I had Banks follow me abroad at night with a brace of pistols under his coat, albeit I feared nothing save that I should not have an opportunity to meet the duke in a fair fight.

  • And, what's more, he's never been licked in a fair fight in his life.

  • Dad says my father was killed in fair fight.

  • If there's any killing to be done, it will be in fair fight.

  • The position of the wound and the revolver clenched in the dead man's hand would show he had come to his end in fair fight.

  • He knew that if he should come to any serious physical injury at the skipper's hands it would be in a fair fight.

  • Kill a man he will, in fair fight; but it bain't in his nature to let any man go cold nor hungry in Chance Along.

  • But it was in fair fight that I did it; and I call my two friends, the lords of Jura and Colonsay, to bear me out in the truth of what I say.

  • In fair fight or by stealth Roderic shall surely die.

  • But it shall be in fair fight that I will overcome him, and by no mean subterfuge.

  • Let any man of you stand forth and meet me in fair fight, and I will fight him to the death.

  • Fair fight is refused him, nor is he granted single combat, nor comes any one to succour or aid him.

  • Fair fight is not granted me nor single combat, and no [LL.

  • Bill was not killed in fair fight, nor could McCall have hurt him had Bill suspected his intent.

  • It was a fair fight in the town square by appointment.

  • The man who would kill a woman in the West could never meet his fellow in fair fight again.

  • This was a fair fight also, and the only wonder is he was not killed; but he seemed never to consider odds, and literally he knew nothing but fight.

  • If I have killed men, or had them killed, I have done it in fair fight.

  • Whereon, according to the simple fashion of those primitive times, they sought about for some one who would pick a quarrel with Hereward, and slay him in fair fight.

  • And how I have slain I know not how many men in battle, though that, I trust, need not lay heavily on my soul, seeing that I killed them all in fair fight.

  • Dhananjaya, although he thus got the opportunity of slaying that huge elephant with its rider from the back, wished not yet to avail himself of it, remembering the rules of fair fight.

  • Having studied the Vedas, he subjugated his foes in fair fight.

  • And Gaya also, acquiring all he had asked for, subjugated his foes in fair fight.

  • Why, we can always lick them at sea in a fair fight.

  • It was a fair fight, just as if it had been a hostile galley in mid-sea; and I don't see why the thought of having rid Venice of one of her worst citizens need trouble you in any way.

  • As his sword was still wet with blood, he could not deny that he was the author of the deed, but, as I said, he declared it was in fair fight.

  • If one's hit in fair fight it's the fortune of war.

  • Bar any man betraying the secret of the Hollow we might be safe for years to come, as long as we were not shot or taken in fair fight.

  • Of the others, it was hard to say whether they died in fair fight or had been taken prisoners and shot afterwards.

  • I'll make a fair fight of it if my legs hold out, and that's all any man could do.

  • I ain't goin' to see him done up any ways but in a fair fight.

  • That axe of his has drunk deep, I think, though always in fair fight, and I say that it shall drink deeper yet.

  • This ended in a row and the truth is that I killed him--in fair fight, mind you.

  • Now I--I met my enemy in fair fight; I did not lie in ambush for him.

  • He had punished a man for a base and craven act; he had challenged him and met him in fair fight.

  • Well, I whipped that hoss in a fair fight, an' then I went in to see how Jabez was gettin' along.

  • I said a fair fight an' I meant a fair fight.

  • Still, to a lad of little over fifteen the thought that he had killed a man, even if in fair fight, was very painful.

  • I killed him in fair fight, and after warning; still, what with Sir William and my lady mother, there will be no stopping here.

  • You are a witness that I killed him in fair fight," Rupert said, turning to the young man, who gazed stupefied at the body of his comrade, and then sheathing his sword bounded away to the stables.

  • Your grandson ran one through in fair fight, and disarmed another; I disabled a third, and they ran.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    boys were; fair and; fair breeze; fair chance; fair daughter; fair hair; fair idea; fair ladies; fair lady; fair land; fair number; fair play; fair price; fair princess; fair show; fair water; fair youth; faire water; fairly good; fairly long; fairy godmother; fairy prince; named from; ping rebellion; powdered sugar; pressure steam