That it was not regard either for the Carthaginian peace party or for existing treaties which withheld the Romans from action, is self-evident; moreover, if they desired war, the Spanish feuds furnished at any moment a ready pretext.
The new-comers in every instance and in every crisis found their opportunity and their immunity in the feuds existing among tribes already in conflict with each other.
They visited some of even the remoter tribes, with appeals conciliatory of all minor feuds and quarrels.
Vanneschi's difference with Mingotti occasioned as many private quarrels and public feuds as the disputed abilities of Handel and Bononcini, or the talents of Faustina and Cuzzoni, had done thirty years before.
Duke of Devonshire resigned, because be was disgusted with the feuds in the cabinet, and perplexed with the jealous disposition of Newcastle and the desponding spirit of Pelham.
Ever since his ill-starred marriage the court had been distracted by the feudsof the queen's kindred and the old nobility of England.
The reader will note that the first paragraph sweeps away all plunder and blood feudsamong the followers of Islam.
These conflicts will seem then as reasonless and insane as those dead, now incomprehensible feuds of the 'greens' and 'blues' that once filled the streets of Byzantium with shouting and bloodshed.
From the History of Herodotus the student will be able to gather a sense of the intensity and persistence of the feuds that kept the Greek world in a state of chronic warfare.
There were differences of dialect, of course, which interfered somewhat with freedom of intercourse, but there were also lifelong memories of bloody feuds which kept them apart.
Feuds were of rarer occurrence, and had even been brought to Kapaa'a for adjustment.
She can't help being my cousin, and she doesn't know she is; she's too little to know about family feuds anyway.
Your party's all right, Margery, my dear, but your reuniting families and healingfeuds isn't going to work.
People believe or disbelieve, repeat or suppress, according to their own inclinations; and death, which ends the feuds of unimportant persons, lets loose the tongues over the characters of the great.
The feuds that arose were settled by the parties involved in the ancient manner of Cain.
It is like dressing our skeleton with another man's skin, giving rise to eternal feuds between the skin and the bones at every movement.
This state of things inevitably gives rise to eternal feuds among the elements freed from the wholeness and wholesomeness of human ideals, and interminable economic war is waged between capital and labour.
The affairs of State in Samoa were conducted under the rule of native kings (two) and chiefs, but constant feuds and bickerings disturbed the tranquillity of the islands.
The deadly feuds and the liberty of private revenge, which had been avowed by the Saxon laws, were still continued, and were not yet wholly illegal.
King Edmond, in the preamble to his laws, mentions the general misery occasioned by the multiplicity of private feuds and battles; and he establishes several expedients for remedying this grievance.
That great party, of which the President was the official head, was convulsed with such internal feuds and contentions, consequent on these very Kansas troubles, as threatened its existence.
Scotland had herfeuds between her Highlands and Lowlands.
Our sympathies go with that earnest group of men to which he belonged, men who struggled honestly to reconcile freedom and order in a State torn with antipathies of the past, with jealousies and ambitions and feuds of the present.
For the most part they were torn with savage internal feuds between factions which, as Guelf or Ghibelline, hoisted the banner of pope or kaiser as an excuse for tearing each other to pieces.
Here law was administered and the visiting Scottish judges sat, before the embittered Border feuds began to make any law other than that of the sword almost a farce.
For till the Scottish wars of Edward the First and the days of Bruce and Wallace, Border feuds in the full meaning of the term had little significance.
In very many instances these marriages have united families whose ancient feuds are traditions of the country.
They saw the feuds fomented between the numerous tribes along the coast of the Mississippi by the French, and the destruction of these by bloody wars.
Many persons, too, had immigrated into the new-settled parts of the State, who were strangers to the feuds which had once divided her people, and which now began to do so anew.
The parties of Republicans and Federalists were bitter toward each other, and feuds were leading to fights, and some of these of most deadly character.
Toyatte had been an inveterate enemy and fighter of the Chilcats, but now, having joined the church, he wished to forget the past and bury all the hard feuds and be universally friendly and peaceful.
View Asia ravaged, Europe drench'd with blood, In feudswhose cause no nation understood.
To you, my customers, I bring the news Of feuds domestic and of foreign woes; Of Liberty extending her domain, And Truth triumphant in her glorious reign.
No matter how bitter the feuds that divided the tenants in the alley, the appearance of a rent collector in the later days healed the breach, bridged the widest chasm.
The greatestfeuds in the Ward have grown out of the selection of the fair lady to present these trophies.
I shall not enter into a history of the feuds of these two parties.
Like his father he had constantly his mind on Vaud, and the daily feuds amongst its leaderless swarm of nobles facilitated the conquest.
And though desultory feuds still showed themselves, peace was at last concluded, in 1450, by which Zurich was forced to give up her Austrian alliance.
Yet this time of peace was every now and again interrupted in the west by feuds with the Burgundian nobles.
Feuds and encounters followed, and John was slain in battle in 1337.
No matter where she may be, or how transient her appearance on a scene, she will instal her feminine feuds as assuredly as a Frenchman would concoct soup in the waste of the Arctic regions.
I introduced her into the house-party for the express purpose of concentrating the feuds and quarrelling that would otherwise have broken out in all directions among the womenkind.
Sir Richard has his literary work to think of; you can't expect a man to concentrate on the tribal disputes of Central Asian clansmen when he's got social feuds blazing under his own roof.
Why should there be feuds at all within the compass of a house party?
The feuds against him were many, and his friends few; for he found that most were ill inclined towards him; those even whom his father held dear he found haughty and evil disposed.
Old feuds were restrained by the strong arm of the law, if indeed the spirit of the clans had not been completely broken by the severe repressive measures which followed the rebellion of Forty-five.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feuds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
