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Example sentences for "internecine"

Lexicographically close words:
internationalists; internationalization; internationally; internazionale; interne; interned; internes; interning; internment; internode
  1. An interregnum of ten years occurred, during which there was internecine war between these claimants to his throne.

  2. In two other passages of the Aeneid this great internecine contest for the empire of the world, which left so deep an impression on the Roman memory, is seen foreshadowing itself, viz.

  3. Let us therefore here set forth the radical opposition between the Catholic principle and the Protestant principle in order that we may thoroughly understand the internecine war that was henceforth to be waged between them.

  4. The two ladies were quite friendly in London; though down in their own neighbourhood they waged a war so internecine in its nature.

  5. A scene occurred on this field which exhibits one of the saddest phases of this internecine strife.

  6. We are now threatened with internecine war.

  7. Such episodes are common enough in the history of that internecine struggle for existence between the Italian municipalities, which preceded the more famous strife of Guelfs and Ghibellines.

  8. These public palaces belong to the age of the Communes, when Gubbio was a free town, with a policy of its own, and an important part to play in the internecine struggles of Pope and Empire, Guelf and Ghibelline.

  9. His kinsmen seem to have been of little repute, for part of his mission was to destroy his own clan and after presiding over its annihilation in internecine strife, he was slain himself.

  10. Internecine conflict broke out among the Yâdavas and annihilated the race.

  11. We had, at the cost of much blood and treasure, restored peace, and the effect of our now reversing our policy would be to leave the province in a state of anarchy, and possibly to cause an internecine war.

  12. To renew his chairmanship and to continue an internecine quarrel up to the very verge of the General Election; to withdraw for a time from public life; or to make a peace with Lord Salisbury.

  13. In those internecine struggles whole cities disappeared, and fertile districts were periodically abandoned to wolves.

  14. Sidenote: Economic progress] By adopting Cecil's ecclesiastical policy of the via media, Elizabeth saved England from the internecine religious strife which almost throughout her reign made the political action of France so inefficient.

  15. But against her internecine enemies live out your life in continual warfare.

  16. And this was the beginning of the series of internecine wars, from which many chroniclers date the origin of the Guelph and Ghibelline factions in Florence.

  17. Having now destroyed so large a part of their forces by internecine slaughter, they thought that their strength was not equal to storming the palace, and consulted a sorceress named Gudrun.

  18. In high spirits, they marched along, crossing the Douro, fearing no opposition, for the Moorish population was at the time divided by many internecine feuds, and were hence precluded from assembling against him in any large numbers.

  19. The religious world called unto the heavens in earnest prayer for peace; but the rushing torrent of events swept on toward war, to dreadful internecine war.

  20. Italy throughout the middle ages was torn by internecine strife which was reflected throughout every class of society, and the subject of this chapter was no exception.

  21. The empire of this Universe is divided between these two; they dwell apart, in perennial internecine feud.

  22. I believe that there must be internecine war between the people's church--i.

  23. And, as for internecine warfare, that forms no obstacle to the identification of the historical Pechts, in their later stages, with the Sidhfir of popular legend.

  24. They have no traditions of internecine strife, and the art of war seems to have been lost long ago.

  25. Many bore scars received in the internecine warfare which has raged in the unhappy country with but brief intervals of peace since the days of Spanish occupation.


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