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Example sentences for "our enemies"

  • We find ourselves driven by our enemies by steady progress toward a practice which we abhor, and which we are vainly struggling to avoid.

  • There never passed a day but what I killed one or another of our enemies in the besieging army.

  • I often told them not to show themselves, since their nasty red caps gave a fair mark to our enemies.

  • As we are men and Scots, let the burden of our prayers be, the preservation of our country, not the slaughter of our enemies!

  • I would neither have my chieftains set examples of cruelty, nor degrade themselves by imitating the barbarities of our enemies.

  • Though brave in his deeds, this unknown way prove only the more subtle spy and agent of our enemies.

  • Let everyone do what I do, and with Divine help we will have vengeance on our enemies.

  • So I beg you to give me holy baptism, and to be my brother in arms for as long as we live, being friends of our friends and enemies of our enemies.

  • The princess said: "Give me that hand that has not had mercy on the deaths of the Moorish Kings, our enemies.

  • But now that we are at war, the moment you have left us we are sure to be attacked, ourselves and all our wealth, and methinks we shall have a sorry life of it, our enemies at our elbow and far stronger than ourselves.

  • The stoutest of our enemies, those whom we must seize or slay, are mounted on steeds that could sweep past us like the wind.

  • If any of you are troubled by the thought of volleys from the roofs when the army enters the city, I bid you lay these fears aside: if our enemies do climb their roofs we have a god to help us, the god of Fire.

  • When we see (as here we must see) in their true colors the character and policy of our enemies, our gratitude will become an active principle.

  • We must, as the very first and preliminary step, be guilty of that perfidy towards our friends and associates with which they reproach us in our transactions with them, our enemies.

  • And we were as dead men then, as we sneered at our enemies, and there was little fight left in us we were so weak.

  • So Jed and I, two youngsters of nine, went out under the white flag to talk with the leader of our enemies.

  • Father, with several of our company, had gone there to try to buy flour, and I, disobeying my mother in my curiosity to see more of our enemies, had tagged along unperceived.

  • At the which ships passing nigh the town, were shot many strokes with bombards, which made some slaughter of our enemies: and when the most part of them was past, they began to set ordinance on the land with great diligence.

  • And this was the first victory that our lord gaue vs, and there abode of our enemies a thousand and more.

  • At the Arsenall they were beaten backe with greater dammage of our enemies, and small hurt to vs.

  • Let us humbly wait for his consolation, and the Lord our God will require our blood of the afflictions of our enemies, and he will humble all the nations that shall rise up against us, and bring them to disgrace.

  • And Ozias the prince of Juda said to her: Go in peace, and the Lord be with thee to take revenge of our enemies.

  • Blessed be the Lord who made heaven and earth, who hath directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies.

  • Absence having abated the force of her charms, his eyes were opened; he discovered the plots and machinations of our enemies, and clearly perceived that a rupture could not but tend to the ruin of us both.

  • It is therefore probable that we ourselves have delivered the weapons into our enemies' hands.

  • We cannot wrest the poisonous weapon--the lie--out of the hands of our enemies.

  • He then suggested that we might have been instigated to the measures in question by some of our enemies; probably meaning some of our unprincipled white neighbors.

  • I am glad that it has done even this good; though it be to our enemies; for I am not of a spirit to envy the prosperity of others; I rejoice in it.

  • We are to be accused by our enemies, tried by them, and condemned by them.

  • Our enemies endeavored to hinder them even of this, though without success; and thankful are we that they did not succeed.

  • Those who did act were either our enemies or persons who had no minds of their own, and were led by them in all they did.

  • If, in the formation of our future policy, we were guided by the same cynical contempt, then we should be surrendering to the philosophy of our enemies, and our victory would turn to defeat.

  • If we do not keep constantly ahead of our enemies in the development of new weapons, we pay for our backwardness with the life's blood of our sons.

  • The tremendous effort of the first years of this war was directed toward the concentration of men and supplies in the various theaters of action at the points where they could hurt our enemies most.

  • And it is for that final effort--for the total defeat of our enemies--that we must mobilize our total resources.

  • We most certainly committed ourselves to very large and very specific military plans which require the use of all Allied forces to bring about the defeat of our enemies at the earliest possible time.

  • Thou knowest all the iniquitous procedure of our enemies towards us.

  • In such dire need and necessity it is better to die an honorable death than to bear disgrace, to live like beggars by the grace of our enemies.

  • We will dash right through the circle of our enemies.

  • We cannot go backward, we must advance, and pass right through the midst of our enemies in order to reach the border.

  • We will now go to our rehearsal, and we must perform our tragedy with such care and in such a manner that the thunders of applause which we receive will reach the ears of our enemies.


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