With a pair of six-shooters, Mosby had a five-shot advantage over any opponenthe was likely to encounter.
Mosby's estimate of hisopponent was uncannily accurate.
This last would entail something of a sacrifice, for he had come to esteem Sir Percy highly as an opponent whose mind was an open book and whose every move could be predicted in advance.
He took up the challenge, and was re-elected against a radical opponent by a substantial majority.
Peel had already intimated privately that a transfer of the premiership from an opponent to a champion of emancipation would make it impossible for him to retain office.
But the catholics had a still more doughty opponent in the Duke of York, who delivered on this occasion the first of his famous declarations, binding himself to life-long hostility.
His most powerful opponent was about to disappear from the political scenes for the present, and in the future to be converted into an ally.
Canning was now able to obtain his dismissal, which was followed by the recall of the French ambassador, De Neuville, who had been the principal opponent of British influence at Lisbon.
A similar method of mystifying his opponent is adopted by the base-ball pitcher in his demonstrations with the ball before letting it drive at the batsman.
Not knowing or caring who my opponent was to be, I left all arrangements to the enthusiasts, and in due time was introduced to Mr. Mickey Davis, who had the great honor of being the champion rough and tumble fighter of New York.
To do justice to Piccini, a mild and timid man, he never took part in the controversy, and always spoke of his opponent with profound respect and admiration.
Il caro Sassone," the dear Saxon, found a formidable opponent as well as dear friend in the person of Scarlatti.
Another Italian opponent was Hasse, a man of true genius, who in his old age instructed some of the most splendid singers in the history of the lyric stage.
I know you were in a blackguardly prize-fight, sir, in a ring where your opponent was a sort of champion of the Bilston colliers.
The knights rode at full speed towards each other, and the aim of each was to strike his opponent in the centre of the shield, 'The four nails,' Book III.
He lifted each piece slowly, like a sleeper with his eyes half shut; and yet his opponent could not hold her own against his wary tactics and was defeated by him now for the third time, though her uncle himself called her a good player.
He was an ascetic, and was a keen opponent of the emotional mysticism which was known as the new Hassidism.
Most authorities believe that he was a Gnostic; but while it is certain that he was not a Christian, it is possible that he was simply a Sadducee, and thus an opponent not of Judaism but of Pharisaism.
My speech, however sarcastically treated by Mr. Fairfield, must at least have disposed the Yellow party to vote rather for me than for a determined opponentlike Egerton.
Four years ago, our worthy opponentgot into office because our administration was embarrassed by the Madagascar Crisis.
This may win us the election," he said angrily, "but it will do us more harm in the long run than if our worthyopponent stayed in the White House.
When all was finished, the Moderator made a complimentary remark to the Respondent and one to the first Opponent (I forget whether to the second and third).
Murk went after his opponent with determination if not with skill.
Murk fought as these thugs fought, disregarding the finer rules of combat, seeking only to put his opponent out, no matter by what means.
His little opponent ran, struck, sprang, gnashed his teeth; redoubling vigour by quickness, from knowledge of the science.
We imagine that in it we catch a glimpse of the sneer of the opponent who is beyond our reach.
He was hated in his day as the arch-opponent of reform, yet the triumph of the reform movement would have been impossible but for the peace his policy secured.
A long experience of his character and actions convinced barons and commons alike that he was a just and sincere man, a friend of good governance, and an honest opponent of arbitrary and unconstitutional rule.
It was a sporting rule of the Colonel’s not only to give as good a blow as he could, but also to take without squirming the hardest blow his opponent could deliver.
Roosevelt was made chairman of the state delegation to the Republican convention at Chicago which nominated Blaine, “The Plumed Knight,” as opponent to Cleveland in the Presidential campaign.
He was a strong opponent of that class of impractical men typified by a Senator who, in answer to a question as to what we would do if we were suddenly attacked by a foreign power, replied: “We would build a battleship in every creek.
Cleveland grew to rely on his young opponent even more than he did on some of the leaders of his own party.
This gingerly attitude of his opponentexasperated Roosevelt.
Anybody facing more than oneopponent will try to protect his back by a wall, which is also strategy--strategy being the veritable instinct of self-preservation which aims at an advantage in the disposition of forces.
His opponent was seen without illusion, as soldier sees soldier.
He refused to bribe, and his opponent therefore won hands down, as he paid the usual sum of five pounds for each vote.
Who had stained the unwritten code by facing an opponent maddened with liquor!
That weapon had been in his father's hand when he had faced his opponent in that fatal duel!
In opposing the Phocians, the antagonists of the Thebans in the Sacred War, Philip was also helping the Thebans themselves, and gaining credit as the opponent of the plunderers of the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
Following Mr. Hare, he is a declared opponent of party government, and "would like to see it pushed further into the background.
So Mr. Spencer is a most uncompromising opponent of State action, even education and public sanitation coming in for his condemnation.
He measured with his eye the distance between himself and Joe, and wondered if he could cover it in a rush, carry his opponent off his feet, and batter and pummel him as they rolled down the fort wall together.
He confessed to have treated his opponent with a want of proper respect, though he retracted none of his criticisms.
But whatever Southey's errors of fact, they show at least a deeper insight than hisopponent into some social evils.
His remedy, in all cases, was a 'paternal government' vigorously regulating society; and Malthus appears to him to be simply an opponent of all such action.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opponent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
