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Example sentences for "foreign enemy"

  • During a period of six hundred and nineteen years, the seat of empire had never been violated by the presence of a foreign enemy.

  • After he was delivered from the fear and danger of a foreign enemy, his infant church was disgraced and distracted by intestine faction.

  • Douglas was treated by Henry with the courtesy due to his rank and reputation, and as a foreign enemy, not as a rebel; but Worcester, Kinderton, and Vernon were immediately beheaded.

  • Richard was now, for the first time, at the head of an army against a foreign enemy.

  • The dominant feeling of the House of Commons was no longer the desire to support the crown against a foreign enemy, but to make government as cheap as possible, leaving future dangers to the chances of the future.

  • When Simon turned the native Welsh prince Llewelyn against the marcher barons, he gave great offence; he was accused of sacrificing Englishmen to a foreign enemy.

  • The three leaders were slain in the battle of Muta, the first military action, which tried the valor of the Moslems against a foreign enemy.

  • Its first and most glorious exploit was the deliverance of the city from the arms of Chosroes Nushirvan; and it was soon revered as a pledge of the divine promise, that Edessa should never be taken by a foreign enemy.

  • The hostile tribes were united in faith and obedience, and the valor which had been idly spent in domestic quarrels was vigorously directed against a foreign enemy.

  • The three leaders were slain in the battle of Muta, [146] the first military action, which tried the valor of the Moslems against a foreign enemy.

  • For say they, we can as well live under a foreign enemy, working for day wages, as under our own bretheren, with whom we ought to have equal freedom by the Law of Righteousness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    common interest; foreign affairs; foreign authors; foreign birth; foreign body; foreign born; foreign capital; foreign commerce; foreign corn; foreign courts; foreign devil; foreign investment; foreign language; foreign merchants; foreign ministers; foreign missionary; foreign parts; foreign soil; foreign trade; foreign travel; foreign troops; foreign wars; good house; nobody could; rich enough; salmon trout