Still, the Spaniards have probably been doing some good fightingin this neighborhood.
The situation in Egypt is further complicated by the report that General Kitchener's Soudanese troops, in whose fighting qualities he has had great confidence, have shown signs of dissatisfaction.
The excitement of the chase and the prospect of fighting before them was greatly increased as the dhow got higher up the river; the wind falling, and sometimes becoming baffling, the boat gained on her.
If there is we shall have more fighting than we bargained for, but it will never do to go back without attempting to secure the dhow.
Ned followed his friend's advice, and managed without quarrelling or fighting to obtain the respect of even the least well-disposed of his messmates.
More than a million Russians are prisoners in the Dual Monarchy, nearly a million of whose subjects are in Russia--and of these at least fifty thousand Czechs are fighting the Austrians and Germans in the ranks of the Roumanian army.
Prices will be cut to far below the cost of production in order that the new industry of America fightingsingle handed against the single head German trust may be driven from the field.
He said that he was fighting on the East front and that he had a temporary leave of absence.
A Slavish race differing somewhat from the others is in the mountains to the east of Hungary where much fighting has taken place in the last war known as Boukovina.
Bernhardi, who, during the war, was given a command behind the fighting front at Posen, was not considered a skilful general by the military or a great or even popular writer by the people.
Colonel Kuhn says all fightingon the West is with artillery and hand grenades.
Their school boys dream of fighting Indians in Pittsburg and hunting buffalo in the deserts of the Bronx.
Many members, who are not Socialists, favour peace, and the Chancellor will be forced to make some sort of a declaration on why they are fighting and for what.
Day and night the wells were crowded with cattle, lowing and fighting with each other to come at the troughs.
A gross calculation may be formed of the number of inhabitants in this delightful plain by considering that the king of Kasson can raise four thousand fighting men by the sound of his war- drum.
The Princes are wholly excluded, and systematically so, from all that is doing, and will scarce be allowed the honour of fighting should it come to blows.
There was in his face the firm fighting look of one who had done things and could tackle big affairs--and something more; there was in it quiet exultation.
If you look out on those who are singing it, you'd see they are resting from their labours; that they are fighting the ennui which most of us feel when we rest from our labours.
Still another group went and brought away ten thousand pounds, and lost it in fighting with Spanish buccaneers.
Because Calhoun is there fighting the Maroons in that district.
They were infighting humor, and only needed an organizer to become a dangerous force.
Banded officialismfighting to keep its place against the demands of a disorganized righteous mob of citizens.
It was not faith--it was a sort of desperation; and yet the Republicans as regularly had their joke about it, regardless of the pathos presented in the action of a body of men thusfighting a forlorn and hopeless battle.
People say that Ireland is fighting England--fighting the English people, but that is not the fact.
He was still fighting his battle, when a slow step came down the stairs ending in a sharp rap upon the door.
It's because these few generally live in towns that we seem to be fighting the towns.
Clear to her waist she went, fighting the sea from her.
He showed me where she was like and where she differed from the Lucy Foster, the Fred Withrow, the Nannie O, the Colleen Bawn, and the others which were then causing trouble in Gloucester with crews fighting over their good qualities.
That is the man who you know has at bottom a much more fundamental and terrible courage than the irritable, fighting man.
Bellicose by disposition, I nevertheless like to know what I am fighting for.
In these figures the booty taken by the allied troops fighting in the Carpathians and north of the Vistula is not included.
Behind the veil of mist the fighting went sternly on and the big guns boomed incessantly.
While Australians and New Zealanders werefighting so gallantly against heavy odds north of Gaba Tepe, British troops crowned themselves with equal laurels at the southern end of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
He has only defined part of what we are fighting for.
April 2--Heavy artillery fighting is on between the Meuse and the Moselle; night infantryfighting takes place in the Forest of Le Prêtre.
From daybreak onward on the 19th of August the Eighth Belgian Regiment of the Line were fightingwith the German troops on the left bank of the Meuse on the heights of Seilles.
I ought to have thanked God he was in South Africa and likely to get himself shot fighting for his country instead of going after women.
There was no fighting in Victoria Street; it was simply riding through life on rubber tyres.
She was a mother fighting for her offspring, and many a shrewd knock they had from her.
We're entitled to a little vengeance, I think imagine her--with her ostrich feathers and her greasy old blue dress, her sharp red nose and her fighting voice.
At four the Huron came into sight from the western pass, laboring heavily, fighting her way along inch by inch, but advancing.
At that very moment, on a little mill-stream near Washington, men were desperately fighting the first great battle of the war, the Sunday battle of Bull Run.
The trail was plain and it was impossible to lose it, and Jack plodded along fighting mosquitoes and watching the splendid mountains which rose on either side of the lake.
He struggled violently and then tried to kick, but Hugh stood firm, seeming to hold the man tighter and tighter to his chest, and in a moment Tony had forgotten all about fighting and was screaming with the pain of the pressure.
They were fighting all their enemies and now and then they killed a white man, when they got a good chance.
Other animals and birds and figures of men, all fighting one another, encircle, in orderly confusion, the beautiful inlaid central column.
It possesses hardly a street which is not arcaded; and the thought arises: "How admirably adapted for street fighting were these sheltered walks in the days when one half of the town was at strife with the other!
Nearly three years had passed in hard fighting before Godfrey and his army found themselves before the walls of Jerusalem.
Street fighting became at length such a nuisance to the peaceable inhabitants that the order went forth that all towers were to be demolished, with one exception, the tower that Guglielmo Embrianco attached to his house.
Fighting Mexicans was a less amusing occupation than he had supposed, and his pleasure trip was disagreeably interrupted by brain fever, which attacked him when about halfway to Bent's Fort.
Others were to gain renown by fighting the enemy; but greatness of a different kind was in store for him.
The man who was killed belonged to an association which, among other mystic functions, claimed the exclusive power and privilege of fighting the thunder.
Why Fritz Sahlmann got a box on the ears, and the watchmaker spent the night fighting with Mamsell Westphalen's four-post bed, and why the French Colonel paid a visit to the watchmaker in a red blanket.
The Sinclairs have been fighting and making money for centuries: it is a sign of grace to have a scholar and a poet at last among them.
Ronald had been in New Orleans and had the fever; he had been in Texas, and spent four years in fighting Indians and Mexicans and in herding cattle.
There were men on the jury whose fathers had died fighting it; beside, there was that unacknowledged but positive contempt which ever attaches itself to a race that has been subjugated.
I knew a young man must do a certain amount of fussing and fizzling before he settles down strong and clear; and fighting and opposing a crotchety fellow does no good.
Besides saying the stranger was dealing from the bottom did Dale use any other fighting words?
The poor girl was sitting up, clutching her stomach and rocking back and forth and fighting for her breath with gasps and crows.
He, Racey Dawson, would show them a fight that would stack up as well as any of which a hard-fighting territory could boast.
The rat that don't care nothing about fighting with anything but a law book.
There are just four conceivable answers to this question--answers illustrative of three great schools of philosophy, and of a fourth which is now fighting for existence.
The government of Spain was at the time fighting the ultra-clericals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fighting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
