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Example sentences for "war and"

  • The Italian war led him to write a new work, which he published in 1861, entitled "War and Peace.

  • Therefore let them strip, clothed in their chastity, and share in the toils of war and in the defence of their country; he who laughs at them is a fool for his pains.

  • A very different ideal of womanhood is held up by Plato to the world; she is to be the companion of the man, and to share with him in the toils of war and in the cares of government.

  • In times of war and anarchy, when every one is shifting for himself, only the strongest and shrewdest can stand.

  • Logothetes, who forced them by blows to pay up the money which they had already paid to their Gothic rulers; and revenue exacted alike in war and in peace.

  • Their own plunderers found that they could not do without them; and repented, and humbled themselves, and built them up again, to be centres of justice and mercy and peace, amid the wild weltering sea of war and misery.

  • It must not be forgotten that at all periods of history it seems as if some blind instinct had driven the inhabitants of the inhospitable plains of North Germany to war and to conquest.

  • While my headquarters were at Culpeper, from the 26th of March to the 4th of May, I generally visited Washington once a week to confer with the Secretary of War and President.

  • In the latter part of November General Hancock was relieved from the command of the 2d corps by the Secretary of War and ordered to Washington, to organize and command a corps of veteran troops to be designated the 1st corps.

  • Rury in their going out and their coming in, in war and in peace.

  • For my tutor Fergus paid a good heed to my education in the whole art of war and especially as to swimming.

  • Each leader, whose worth and authority has been tested in war and recognized by armies, has done something of the sort.

  • It comes from the romance that clothes war and battle, and that has with us ten times more than elsewhere, the power of exciting enthusiasm in the people.

  • His friends the ephors granted him in return for these promises three ships of war and funds to support a thousand mercenaries, and so they despatched him on his mission.

  • William the Conqueror, as a conqueror, held this power of war and peace in himself, and his descendants have ever since claimed it under him as a right.

  • The French Constitution says that the right of war and peace is in the nation.

  • From such beginning of governments, what could be expected but a continued system of war and extortion?

  • From war and blood we went to submission; and from submission plunged back again to war and blood; to desolate and be desolated, without measure, hope, or end.

  • Mere spectacles, mere names, will become sufficient causes to stimulate the people to war and tumult.

  • The reports of the Secretaries of War and of the Navy are herewith transmitted.

  • DEAR SIR:--Yours of the 15th has been received, and considered by the Secretary of War and myself.

  • A copy of this order, certified by the Secretary of War and delivered to such judge, shall be deemed and held to be a sufficient commission.

  • From this primitive country they were driven to the West by the tide of war and emigration, by the weight of the more distant tribes, who at the same time were fugitives and conquerors.

  • When the successors of Mahomet unsheathed the sword of war and religion, he was astonished at the boundless prospect of toil and danger; his nature was indolent, nor could the infirm and frigid age of the emperor be kindled to a second effort.

  • Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land.

  • This passage was open in war and closed in peace.

  • A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.

  • But make thou beginning of war and battle.

  • A glad man was my brother Folk-might when he heard that for years past we had been lifting the gear of men, and chiefly of the Aliens in Silver-dale: and he himself was become learned in war and a deft leader of men.

  • The Athenians no longer now acted through others--they recognised all the advantage of securing to their friends and wresting from their foes the management of an oracle, on whose voice depended fortune in war and prosperity in peace.

  • An immense population of serfs, or penestae, contributed to render the chiefs of Thessaly powerful in war and magnificent in peace.

  • Placed between two rivers, the Crathis and the Sybaris--possessing extraordinary advantages of site and climate, this celebrated colony rose with unparalleled rapidity to eminence in war and luxury in peace.

  • At this happy and brilliant period few were in need of it--war and disaster, while they increased the number of the destitute, widened the charity of the state.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    butyric acid; exercise exclusive; having faith; judicial authority; jury trial; means easy; pass through thy land; single sentence; symbolic eagle; this occasion; war against; war was; warm climate; warm countries; warm myself; warm oven; warm room; warm them; warm through; warm weather; warn thee; warn them; warning finger; warrant officer; warrant thee; warrant you