As you wish it, Mr Nott, we'll fight the brig to the last, and maybe we shall knock away some of her spars and get off.
Shall we fight the Frenchman, or up stick and run?
I intend to fight the Frenchman, and beat him off, too.
Captain Bouchier addressed his people, urging them to stand boldly to their guns, and promising them to fight the ship to the last.
Mr. Holbourn was greatly inferior in strength, and it is obvious that his design was not to fight the enemy, as he immediately made the best of his way to Halifax.
Later the Comanches and Apaches and Kiowas fought among themselves, and came north tofight the Cheyennes.
When I heard that Custer had been killed I said: “He is a man to fight the enemy.
Our object was not to fight the Crows or any other tribe, but we learned that the soldiers were getting after us to try to compel us to go back on the reservation, and we were trying to get away from them.
Greene, with the boldness and quickness which showed him to be a soldier of a high order, now dropped the pursuit and turned back to fight the British in detachments and free the southern States.
At times, he took lessons from a fencing master, and talked of going to England to fight the murderer of his father.
And since, contrary to the most solemn compact, he was compelled to fight, he very naturally determined to fight the British, rather than his own countrymen.
And now you are hurrying along here, with all your men, only to fight the British.
At that time they were getting together an expedition to go fight the Moors, and my father went with them.
And pardoners were--often unscrupulously--selling indulgences that granted the forgiveness of sins in return for money to fight the infidel in North Africa and the Mediterranean.
Lazaro then enlists to go on an expedition to fight the Turks, his ship sinks, and he is miraculously changed into a fish.
A deserter revealed the intelligence to Themistocles, and it was resolved to fight the Persians, thus weakened, at once, but at the close of the day, so that the battle would not be decisive.
Cæsar, after arranging the affairs of Italy, marched through Gaul into Spain tofight the generals of Pompey.
We are going over the mountains to fight the Spaniards, and we want them to show us the way.
Fight the ship," were his last words: "fight the ship as long as she can swim.
I do not like this job;" one of them muttered, "I should be glad to fight the Macdonalds.
Can the human stomach satisfy itself with lectures on Free-trade; and are we to fight the Austrians in a moderate manner, or in an immoderate?
Lysander was not able to fight the Athenians on equal terms, but yet he could not remain quiet with so large a number of ships.
He embraced Lysander, begged him not to fight the Athenians by sea until he returned from court, promised that he would return with many ships from Phœnicia and Cilicia, and so departed.
We did not come hither to quarrel with our allies, but to fight the enemy; not to boast about our ancestors, but to fight bravely for Greece.
Are we to fight the English, or are we to sit still?
If Sompseu had suffered me to fight the Boers as I wished to do, it would never have come about.
Goza," I said at last, "do the Zulus really mean to fight the English?
I wish you to counsel Cetewayo to throw back his word into the teeth of the Queen's man and to fight the English.
It is one thing to fight the Egyptians as they did at El-Obeid, but another when it is your soldiers.
He wanted to go back to fight the farmer, but as the fellow would have reloaded by the time he got there, and there was the dog into the bargain, we lugged him off.
I am not a fool; I am not going to fight the Mahdi's army.
That Edward was enabled to fight the Battle of Barnet with any hope of success was also owing to the weather.
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