The rivals met at the river Tigris, which the Babylonians held with a naval force, while their army was posted on the right bank, ready to dispute the passage.
His proud rivals will not dare suffer his return; and their cowardice will, of itself, pronounce his triumph.
In the midst of the universal discontent excited by the agents of his numerous rivals and enemies, the main mine was sprung, and Ripperda's fortunes received their final blow.
With a strong body-guard, and a dozen or more burning tapers, we wander for hours and hours in this underground world, which in many respects rivals Mammoth Cave.
Heavenly breezes sweep across the strings of that golden lyre, and wake for me a song which, for pathos and sweetness, rivals the minstrelsy of angels.
In Italy, France and Spain fans had special conventional uses, and various actions in handling them grew into a code of signals, by which ladies were supposed to convey hints or signals to admirers or to rivals in society.
The Boys of Columbia High; Or The All Around Rivals of the School.
Uncle," Rostov, and Ilagin kept stealthily glancing at one another's dogs, trying not to be observed by their companions and searching uneasily for rivals to their own borzois.
Nicholas, seeing in Erza and "Uncle's" red Rugay two rivals he had never yet had a chance of pitting against his own borzois.
They say that the rivals are reconciled, thanks to the angina.
The story was very pretty and interesting, especially at the point where the rivals suddenly recognized one another; and the ladies looked agitated.
Its shores are thickly wooded and the fishing rivalsthat of Minnetonka.
There were just five in the bunch, dusty, tired fellows, all on the way home from a most exciting game with a rival team, and the most bitter rivals for supremacy in the little river town along the upper Mississippi.
Three suitors, wealthy lords, whose alliance gave strength to my kindred in the day when their very lives depended on their swords, were rivals for Earl Salisbury's daughter.
Near the place where the rivals for the silver arrow were collected, a lordly party had reined in their palfreys, and conversed with each other, as the judges of the field were marshalling the competitors.
But at length the Dominicans, the rivals of the Franciscans, sounded an alarm.
The Abasside dynasty in Asia, the Fatimite in Egypt, and the Ommiade in Spain, became rivals not merely in politics, but also in letters and science.
He had readily recognised that without ancestry, establishment, or support in France, and surrounded by rivals and enemies, all his strength centred in the Queen.
The rivals started, and the Hare, of course, soon left the Tortoise far behind.
An important part of their scheme was to preserve its secrecy, for rivals might prove troublesome.
Their rivals for the rich prize at stake try in every way that they can to circumvent the lads and gain the valuable trophy and monetary award.
For extinction adds a charm to a specimen when once your own museum has obtained it: the rarer it becomes after that, the more the curators chuckle, and with its ceasing for ever rivals are left out in the cold.
Why should she never exercise her critical faculty except as between such males as are rivals for her favour?
The men could see the crew from Alexander Bryan & Company's Lucky Star at work; and that excited them the more: they were mad to reach the ice before their rivals could molest the pack for which they were bound.
Hamon, writing in later years about his youthful days, says: "Companions and rivals at the same time, we were all working together for the Grand Prix de Rome.
Titian has had somerivals in Venice, but not of any great ability, wherefore he has easily overcome them by the superiority of his art; while he has also rendered himself acceptable to the gentlemen of the city.
The king's power was repeatedly challenged byrivals and pretenders.
These two, once school companions of the King, became bitter rivals and the Constable persuaded the King to try the Admiral on a charge of embezzlement.
The very basest aims inspired the criminals to seek the King's favor; disappointed beauties would have poisoned their rivals and replaced them in the King's affections.
Die, then, rivals of a jealous god, whose wrath you have deserved, since your heart was sensible to the same charms.
It is certainly something quite new, and rather odd, to see two rivalsso well agreed.
I cannot bear its unequalled severity; the pleasure of my rivals is too great an addition to my poignant grief.
He had, however, none of the temptations of jealousy to betray his secret, for his rivals were neither numerous nor formidable.
As for the children, the daughters as soon as they grow up are added to his wives, while the sons are driven out from the home at the time they reach an age to be dangerous as sexual rivals to their father.
If he had bought legislatures, it was because his rivals were trying to buy them.
You find there are too many soap manufacturers and too much soap, and so you propose to combine, and put your rivalsout of business, and monopolise the soap market.
There were rivals with whom he fought; and the overcoming of theserivals had occupied all his time and his thought.
But if Jack and Pepper made many friends, they also made many rivals and not a few enemies.
THE ROVER BOYS IN CAMP Or, The Rivals of Pine Island At the annual school encampment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rivals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
