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Example sentences for "fight for"

  • Believing in our cause, and wanting to fight for it, is the whole matter with him.

  • I will say one thing in regard to the negroes being employed to fight for them.

  • But there is one--the recent attempt of our erring brethren, as they are sometimes called, to employ the negro to fight for them.

  • With my boy, my wife, to fight for it was worth all the agony.

  • Say, we'll fight for you as we've never fought before.

  • So I'm their slave to fight for them, and work for them, whatever their methods.

  • And you mean that you would fight for me--again?

  • If Joanne had come to him like this, making him forget his work, filling him more and more with the thrilling desire to fight for her, was it so very strange that a beast like Quade would fight--in another way?

  • I didn't get across to fight for it, but I shore was willin'.

  • I gave my soul and heart and body to the government--to fight for my country.

  • An' it seemed one of the things I was goin' to fight for.

  • I don't in the least mind your knowing that I wouldn't go a step to fight for Boer or Briton either if it wasn't for a little affair connected with some horses and a cheque.

  • It was clearly impossible to assert that he wanted to fight for liberty, to give his life to the cause of an oppressed nationality.

  • Just the same England that this boy is so keen to fight for to-day!

  • She made me a promise that she wouldn't, no matter how hard she had to fight for it.

  • Somehow or other those two views must be reconciled before a life of real comradeship between them was possible; before the really big thing she had promised Portia to fight for could be anything more than a tormenting dream.

  • If you give up and let the big thing slip out of your hands the way you were talking this morning, because you're too weak to hold it and haven't pluck enough to fight for it.

  • And therefore fight ye no more, for none of you shall have no part of her at this time; and if ye list to fight for her, fight with me, and I will defend her.

  • How the lady that was besieged had word from her sister how she had brought a knight to fight for her, and what battles he had achieved.

  • The one knight answered and said, We fight for a simple matter, for we two be two brethren born and begotten of one man and of one woman.

  • He killed the man I loved, and now the King he loved is slain,--and he was not there to fight for him.

  • If they have been successful, their blood will be up so that they will wish to fight for pleasure.

  • In the world I refused to struggle because nothing tempted me; in this infernal hole I have fought when there was nothing to fight for.

  • But we were nearly forced to fight for it.

  • But I eat under compulsion, and I fight for you.

  • But if England had nothing to fight for but a compromise, Prussia had nothing to fight for but a negation.

  • The people had no religion to fight for, as in Russia or La Vendée.

  • Some Free Traders have seemed to leave a man no country to fight for; some Free Lovers seem to leave a man no household to rule.

  • Of the prisoners in his castle, there were two whom the Captain believed to be honest men, and on their promising solemnly to keep faith, and to fight for him, Robinson released them.

  • Make the Trojans and the men of Greece sit down, while Menelaus and I fight for Helen.

  • Thus they were certain to make a fight for it.

  • No," said I; "though from what I have seen of them I should say they are tolerably able to fight for themselves.

  • I'll fight for it--will you fight against it?

  • I'll see you and your Pope in the pit of Eldon before I fight for either of you, so make the most of it.

  • But I was going to make a fight for it; curse it, I was going to give them trouble.

  • I was not angry any more; it wasn't any good being angry, but I made a fight for it.

  • It wasn't wrong, was it, to fight for a thing like that?

  • A victory was the remedy for their troubles, and he made up his mind to fight for it.

  • It means shelter and food, boy, even if we have to fight for it.

  • Lord, man, there's a clean million dollars waiting for us in this deal, and I'm ready to fight for it.

  • An' he done swore he'd fight for whatebber it was, papers or no papers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced towards; currant juice; enabled them; fight again; fight against; fight against the children; fight the; fight them; fight with; fighting chance; free course; getting along; girl reaches; good talk; heavenly bodies; here mentioned; highly polished; left open; night and; spiritual experience; sporting dogs; the third; thee shall; total weight; voltaic electricity; will hide