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Example sentences for "hand fight"

  • Half-dressed, the other troopers followed in quick succession, and soon the camp was the scene of a hand-to-hand fight.

  • It was a hand-to-hand fight beneath a show of formality.

  • At the gate, it is a hand to hand fight, as officers give orders, and the Indians yell like demons, and press with might to force the entrance.

  • After a hard hand to hand fight we drove out the Russians, and turned round the gabions and commenced to fortify ourselves in our newly acquired position.

  • They forced into our trench in large numbers, when we had a desperate hand-to-hand fight; we were completely jammed together, so that as we pulled the bayonet out of one we knocked another over with the butt end of our musket.

  • A hand-to-hand fight, of the most desperate character, was kept up between them and the Guards for a few minutes; but at last the British bayonets prevailed.

  • Major Yoshinaga ordered his men not to retreat a step, and a terrible hand-to-hand fight ensued.

  • I embraced him with my left arm and, gnashing my teeth with regret and sorrow, I could only watch the hand-to-hand fight going on about me.

  • They wavered and yet continued for some time longer to resist us in close hand-to-hand fight, while we increased in courage and strength in proportion to their diminution of power.

  • A hand to hand fight ensued of the utmost ferocity.

  • A hand to hand fight ensued of almost unparalleled ferocity; but the English, with their long swords, hewed down the foe with immense slaughter, and soon got possession of the breastwork which commanded the entrance.

  • All engaged in a hand to hand fight, with any weapons which could be grasped.

  • Their chief had, no doubt, impressed upon them the uselessness of firing against men lying in shelter, and had urged them to hurry at the top of their speed to the island and crush the whites in a hand-to-hand fight.

  • For a moment there was a hand-to-hand fight.

  • For a few minutes there was a hand-to-hand fight, the Americans using the butt-ends of their muskets, the English their bayonets.

  • Every day the pickets swept through these barracks to dislodge the enemy, who scarcely ever remained for a hand-to-hand fight.

  • There is blood on your cloak; have you been having a hand-to-hand fight?

  • Have you ever been in a hand to hand fight?

  • I don't know; but it has come to a hand-to-hand fight, for the firing has ceased.

  • Of a squad of twenty-one men that leaped inside and waged a hand-to-hand fight, nineteen were killed.

  • It was a genuine bayonet charge, a hand-to-hand fight, that has never occurred to any extent during this prolonged conflict.

  • There was a sharp hand to hand fight, in which many were killed on both sides; but at last the islanders gave way before the invaders and Olaf got the victory.

  • On the mid deck he encountered her captain, Thorkel the Wheedler, and the two engaged in a sharp hand to hand fight.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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