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Example sentences for "open force"

  • One was, to interrupt his communications with the royal family of Spain, in order to avoid being pressed to explain the precise nature of his pretensions, until he was prepared to support them by open force.

  • Assaults were effected either by open force, or by force and stratagem combined.

  • They then began to apply the vineae and to spring mines: nor was any measure, whether of open force or stratagem, unemployed against the various attempts of the enemy.

  • If he cannot do it by open force, he has numerous secret means to bring about his ends.

  • No, if we cannot oppose them by open force, we can summon to our aid our wit and stratagem.

  • Why did not the Romans attack the Carthaginians by open force?

  • Caesar, therefore, and his party, fearing they should not carry it by fair dealing, fell to open force.

  • I only wished to show that had I been assailed by open force, I should not have been easily made a prisoner.

  • Had I been attacked in my father's house by open force, I do not think that I should have been captured; I had arms at hand, and should have resisted to the death.

  • The open affront which the Count of Paris put upon the Emperor, was one which he was likely to avenge, either by secret guile or by open force.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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