That evening we went to the Court Theater with Mrs. Florence Fenwick Miller, another member of the London school board.
The effort to secure a special committee on woman suffrage which had failed in the Forty-sixth Congress was successful in the Forty-seventh, through the championship of Senators Hoar and John A.
For a minute or two they foughtdesperately with the guns; but it was no use, and it was soon over, and we stood the masters of the hut, with eleven dead men round us.
It was there they fought their duel, à l'outrance, and I knew it not until too late!
We struggled instinctively to breathe, to live; we grappled desperately with circumstances; we fought against our doom.
Because he had not the hundred men, at last the bridge gave way, and a legion of the king's army were carried to the whirlpool, where they fought in vain.
At last sleep left him, and he fought a demon night and day; and always he remembered Dalice's arm about his neck, and her kisses that last night they were together.
A duel was fought indeed; the hazard of arms favored du Croisier, the young Count was dangerously wounded, and his antagonist maintained his words.
They fling miserable pensions to the men who foughtmost bravely, and give them a royal lieutenancy in a fortress somewhere on the outskirts of the kingdom.
My uncle the Archbishop suffered a cruel martyrdom; I have fought for the cause without deserting the camp with those who thought it their duty to follow the Princes.
Also Bosambo knows, for he is a cunning man, and when we found he had put his warriors to the seeking we fought him, lord, for though the treasure may be Isisi or Akasava, of this I am sure it is not of the Ochori.
July, 1863, the great battle was fought between the Union forces of the Americans under General Meade, and the Confederate army under General Lee, when the latter was defeated with a loss of many thousands of men.
This place was strongly reinforced by the Turks, but after an obstinate battle, which was fought partly on the frozen waters of the Danube, the allies were victorious, and retired across the river with an immense booty.
Their ferocity, he says, was untamed; they fought with cavalry and light armour, trusting to their showers of arrows, against which the swords and lances of the European armies could not avail.
Roumania was free; and this time she had fought for and won her complete independence.
A battle was fought near the capital Suczava, which decided the fate of the principality.
The Wallachs are first distinctly mentioned in the time of Basilius, in whose armies they fought as allies or mercenaries.
They fought on horseback as well as on foot, and it is said that they sent showers of poisoned arrows into the ranks of their enemies.
Before the end of the century another Bulgarian king, Simeon, hadfought the Greeks with varying success, but ultimately the Emperor Basilius II.
Aurelian treated with the barbarians after a battle had been fought which was by no means adverse to the Roman arms, and he stipulated with the Goths that they should contribute an auxiliary force of 2,000 men to the Roman army.
In fact they fought so successfully that a portion of the Wallachian army, where Michael himself was in command, took to flight, and for a time dragged its leader along with it.
If they loved each other, they lived together and were happy, and if they hated each other, they fought it out The feud has been usually overdrawn.
Every battle I have fought has seemed to hold your happiness in its balance.
The mark was supposed to have been left by the horse of one of the great twins "who fought so well for Rome," as Macaulay says in his spirited ballad.
Psuttalia, a small island near Salamis; Marathon: the plain of Marathon was twenty-two miles from Athens, and the famous battle there was fought 490 B.
Love letters and verses were produced, and husband and wife fought out their case before the lawyers.
I fought her to the utterance": the last or utmost extremity--the same as Fr.
Bonifazio, the sovereign of Mantua; that he had married the daughter or sister of Ezzelino; and that he had fought this monster, with glory to himself.
Always in some trouble or other with his companions, he one day fought the duel which forms the subject of Mr. Browning's poem.
The whole Turkish army was defeated, and fled in the utmost disorder after the great battle fought under the walls of Vienna on Sept.
The imperial religion had been the necessary and deadly foe of the religion of Jesus Christ; it had fought and had been conquered.
The monasteries were the refuge and the rallying-ground of those who fought against the secularisation of the Church at the hands of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy.
But a defeat it was not; and had the battle been fought at Chattanooga instead of Chickamauga, Chattanooga would have been lost to us, and disaster overwhelming and crushing would have been the fate of the Army of the Cumberland.
From hastily constructed breastworks we fought now on this side, now on that.
How men fought singly from behind trees, in groops of from two to a dozen, desperately fighting, hoping against hope.
One ship of Croton, however, fought at Salamis, though it is not recorded that Greece asked the Italiotes for help when it sent ambassadors to Gelon of Syracuse.
On the 6th of August MacMahon fought the battle of Worth (q.
From it we learn what the men who fought the bloodless battles of the commonwealths, and who aspired to principality, were like.
If we are to trust his narrative, he fought his way out of one most dangerous trial by simple vociferation.
All day I sang; of love and fame, Of fights our fathers fought of yore, Until the thing almost became A bore.
Throwing aside, therefore, their javelins, they fought with swords hand to hand.
My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me that I have foughthis battles who now will be my rewarder.
The lizard, which was of large form, fought with the snake.
They have fought Tarleton's Legion once or twice in skirmishes, and they say the red-coats are rather shy of them.
How little I could dream that one of the decisive battles of the world was so soon to be fought in my own State, Pennsylvania!
Truly, Lord, you fought well," exclaimed Umu admiringly, as he glanced about him at the dead and wounded.
Eire instantly and magnanimously granted to her new north all the points that had been fought over so bitterly for so many years.
In a shaven second, he had achieved the thing for which long and gallant generations of earlier O'Reillys had fought bloodily and in vain.
After he had greeted many by name, and many others had been presented to him, he saw one noble who had fought with him against the Danes.
The Orsini, though taken by surprise, fought stoutly, and the noise of the conflict brought many people running to the scene.
It seems to me that some time, somewhere--I forget just where--I fought a dragon and wrested the Ring from him.
About the middle of the fourteenth century, Rome had fallen into the hands of several nobles, or barons, who fought among themselves and cared no whit for the rights of the common people.
Across her mind swept the thought of how easy Gene's way was being made for him in the East, and how the way of the West for her had to be fought over inch by inch.
He said a poor devil of a fellow had fought for years against the sand that dad sowed (I don't know how he did the sowing), till it ate up about all this poor wretch had ever had.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
