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Example sentences for "warred"

Lexicographically close words:
warranting; warranto; warrants; warranty; warre; warrelike; warres; warreth; warring; warrior
  1. The Tuïti warred neither with the Maker nor his children; they fed on fruit, and shed no blood: the eagle had banished himself.

  2. On hearing this, the youth cast himself upon his face on the sand, trembling; where he lay for hours torn by the conflict between the good spirit of obedience, and the evil one of ambition, as they warred within him for the mastery.

  3. The little knowledge that his mind, impulsive and ardent, had picked up out of books that warred with the great foundations of existing society, had originated in ill advices.

  4. Heeding not the stir of the world without, Graham was compelling into one resolve the doubts and scruples which had so long warred against the heart which they ravaged, but could not wholly subdue.

  5. But she saw that his mind was set, and that forces warred inside him with which she must not interfere.

  6. His face was a study of inner conflict, as rage and compassion warred inside him.

  7. Asshur-izir-pal, who may probably have been trained to arms under his father, seems to have inherited to the full his military spirit, and to have warred with at least as much success against his neighbors.

  8. The fact of his having warred in Lower Mesopotamia is almost the whole that is known of Tiglath-Pileser's son and successor, Asshur-bil-kala.

  9. He warred in regions to which no earlier Assyrian monarch had ever penetrated; and he adopted modes of warfare on which none of them had previously ventured.

  10. He then appears to have crossed the Tigris and warred on the flanks of Niphates, where his chief enemy was the people of Kasiyara.

  11. To which I answered, that you warred against the Saracens, because they had violated the house of God at Jerusalem.

  12. For seven long years King Karl and his Franks warred in the peninsula.

  13. And the troubled knight mused:-- "The cause of my emperor was just when he warred against Rodolphe of Rhenfield; and the many slain in that quarrel trouble me not.

  14. For full seven years we have warred in Spain, and he hath been ever a traitor.

  15. Then Sir Galahad beat back all who warred against the castle, yet would he not wait for thanks, but rode away that no man might know him.

  16. They warred with feet and arms and knees, With nails and stones and boughs and trees, And blows descending fast as rain Dyed each dark form with crimson stain, While like two thunder-clouds they met With battle-cry and shout and threat.

  17. Divine personages of minute size produced from the hair of Brahmá, and probably the origin of “That small infantry Warred on by cranes.

  18. She was a creature with a number of passionate ideals which warred frequently with the practical side of her mentality.

  19. It was for other men to do things of the sort; a remote antagonism of his whole being warred against the mere idea.

  20. His heart was full of rage against his brother, rage too against the woman he loved; and with this rage warred most bitterly a self-loathing because he knew that his anger against them was unjust.

  21. It somehow recalled to memory an odd tale told me long ago by old Major Duponceau, who was out with the troops in 1729, about a strange people they warred against down on the Ocatahoola.

  22. Bentley's admission that he never met an explicit atheist [430] suggests that much of the atheism warred against was tentative.

  23. They warred incessantly with Counts of Provence, archbishops and burghers of Arles, Queens of Naples, Kings of Aragon.

  24. Afterwards the tales of Titans who had warred with Zeus were realised in this spot.

  25. And Benhadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots; and he went up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it.

  26. Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

  27. And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

  28. And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

  29. I warred against Hovanski, but I was hard with my own people.

  30. Yes, because others in old times warred in the same way, and not having the same impetus they were bound to lose; but now they have become wiser, and see what they are doing.

  31. Man has warred like the other species, he has warred against the other species.

  32. A mattock, a gun and a cradle warred against old associations.

  33. The condition of the sole cooking utensil warred even against my sense of the fitness of gridirons, and I cleansed it with his towel.

  34. The man who fought for secession warred for a cause as evil and as capable of working lasting harm as the doctrine of the divine right of kings itself.


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