But daughter, daughter, tell me in my ear, Have you no fleshly fightingsnow and then?
In the eloquent words of the old hymn, you are a prey to "fightings without and fears within.
The chaining of Hera, and the flinging forth of Hephaistos by his father, and all the fightings of gods which Homer has described, we shall not admit into our state, whether with allegories or without them.
These questions produced altercation and strife, and then anathematisms, and then fightings and murders.
From whence, says the apostle James, come wars and fightings among you; come they not hence, even of your lusts?
Verily it shall remind him in what fightings of wars he stood up with steadfast soul, when the people found grace of glory at the hands of gods, such as none of the Hellenes hath reaped, a proud crown of wealth.
A more melancholy lot never was man's as he is tossed about with many a conflict and many a doubt, fightings and fears within, without, dissatisfied, unhappy.
The apostle James, while reproving the twelve tribes, which were scattered abroad, for their wars and fightings and friendship to the world, styles them adulterers and adulteresses.
If so, would they not immediately renounce everything that leads to wars and fightings and embrace everything which would promote that glorious reign of righteousness and peace for which they earnestly hope, long, and pray?
These last battles, and those on the Chickahominy, that of Shiloh, in one word all the fightings protracted throughout several consecutive days, are almost unexampled in history.
Further, the above staff asserts that, when the truth will be known about the campaign, and the fightings in the Chickahominy, then justice will be done to McClellan.
The fightings at such times are savage affairs, both to the eye and ear.
I knew well how strong Chigwooltz is in his forearms, and that his fightings and wrestlings are desperate affairs; but I did not know till then how savage he can be.
Plato (Phaedo 66) says: "Wars and factions, and fightings have no other source than the body and its lusts.
Even in this life the wisdom that is from above is attainable, and where that has found a home factions and fightings cease.
Whence come wars, and whence come fightingsamong you?
Then how is to be explained the origin of the wars and fightings which prevail among the twelve tribes of the Dispersion?
It would be answered, that they not only justify themselves, but they even go so far as to call these fightings honourable.
I think the first question he would ask would be, And from whence do these fightings come?
And it would be observed farther, that there are other crimes, which these fightings generally include, which are equally specified and forbidden in the great book, but which they think it proper to sanction in the present case.
The wars and fightings of generation on generation went to create the heroism, the loftiness of spirit, expressed in the Teutonic epic verse.
It is in this way that the adventures of the Sagas are raised above the common form of mere reported "fightings and flockings," the common tedious story of raids and reprisals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fightings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
