His family was ancient, but impoverished; his father served in the Austrian army during the wars against Napoleon; his mother is represented to have been a woman of extraordinary force of mind and character.
During the civil wars of the seventeenth century, the victorious party frequently found it difficult to dispose of their captives.
During this period of suspended animation its activities were limited to my own preparations for continuing the historical course through the wars of the French Revolution and Empire, with a view to the resumption of teaching.
This he followed with a less exhaustive account of the wars of the French Revolution and Empire, which also appeared in time for me to use.
At the end of the Napoleonic Wars there were over eight hundred post-captains in the British navy.
Europe is eternally engaged in wars in which we have no interest; and with which the fondest policy forbids us to intermeddle.
Anarchy and interminable civil wars will be the inevitable, logical consequence of yielding to it.
For my services in the subsequent Indian wars of the country, I will refer you to the Hon.
In all the wars which you have formerly been concerned in you had only armies to contend with; in this case you have both an army and a country to combat with.
They have marked the character of America wherever the story of her wars are told; and convinced of this, we have nothing to do but wisely and unitedly to tread the well known track.
Let the apostle James answer: "From whence comewars and fightings among you?
One of the most tedious Sieges; one of the paltriest languid Wars (of extreme virulence and extreme feebleness, neither party having any cash left), and for an object which could not be excelled in insignificance.
You have heard of Umdava, who used to eat men in Natal long ago, after the wars of Tshaka--well, he was my uncle.
For they immediately began to talk to Him about some Galileans whose blood Pilate, the Roman governor, had mingled with their sacrifices (I suppose in some of those wars which were continually breaking out in Judea).
Moreover, there seem to have been great disturbances and wars among the nations round.
From whence," he says, "come wars and quarrels among you?
Just as in other wars where allied troops serve together, so did the Hessians fight on the side of the English in America, with the advantage of not serving in unwholesome climates.
There were Holy Wars of old, in which it was glory enough to die; wars in which the one aim was to rescue the sepulchre of Christ from the hands of infidels.
History is but one long account of wars and conquests, victories or defeats, and progress is chiefly marked in inventions which made battles more sanguinary and added to the number of victims slaughtered.
Distant wars too have contributed in no small measure to the progress of science.
There were no wars with the Dutch, nor with any other foreign nation; nor did any province revolt.
The great earthquakes of Manila happened during the term of that gentleman, and the wars with the Dutch (all of which will be related).
His government is praised, as establishing in the islands peace and plenty; commerce flourishes, and there are no wars or revolts.
Chapters xviii-xxi treat of China, and thewars with the Tartars.
Such is our special vocation in this holy province, where we profess especially to fight thewars of God.
Here follow accounts of the wars in Mindanao and Joló, and the founding of the royal College of San Felipe by Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, both of which are treated elsewhere.
This phrase is applied to those slaves acquired in wars with infidels.
His recovery of Jerusalem, the siege of Ascalon, and his wars with those who are termed infidels, are given at great length, and the boldest of the Christian heroes are often represented as flying before his victorious sword.
This Traditional Law of Kings is that Letter at this day which kills true freedom and is the fomenter of wars and persecutions.
Justice is bought and sold; nay, Injustice is sometimes bought for money; and it is the cause of all wars and oppressions.
This is true, but not to suffer the Rulers to call the Earth theirs and not ours; for by so doing they betray their trust and run into the line of tyranny, and we lose our freedom, and from thence enmity and wars arise.
Indeed, this Tyranny is the cause of all wars and troubles, of the removal of the Government of the Earth out of one hand into another so often as it is in all Nations.
Others say, It is true Freedom that the Elder Brother shall be Land Lord of the Earth, and the Younger Brother a Servant: And this is but a half Freedom, and begets murmurings, wars and quarrels.
His high, adventurous spirit was meant for wars and chances, doubtless in the old, romantic sense of battle.
I challenge the doctrine, now being taught, that we must enter into a mad rivalry with the Old World in the building of battleships--the doctrine that the only way to preserve peace is to get ready for wars that ought never to come!
Class conflicts cause wars and selfish ambitions have often embroiled nations; in fact, war is like a boil, it indicates that there is poison in the blood.
The supplying of battleships and munitions is so profitable a business that wars are encouraged by some for the money they bring to certain classes.
Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade--the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
Love of money is probably more responsible for modern wars than any other one cause; commercial rivalries lead nations into injustice and unfair dealing.
Conrad had gone into the street to ask for news, for the booming of artillery had ceased, and the battle wars over.
Wars and dissensions interfered with her restorative efforts.
The ancestor who fought in the wars of the Roses has a very different expression and dress from the other ancestor who cheated and lied (politically, of course) in the days of the early Georges.
Germany calculated that the depopulation caused by hiswars was more than compensated by the immigration.
We ought to remember, in judging of the paucity of books produced in England, that the Wars of the Roses broke out at the very time when Guttenberg's labours began.
In this self-depreciating spirit he conducts all his wars and all his treaties; yet somehow it always happens that he gets what he wanted, and the overreaching and deceiving antagonist gives it up.
Wars of the Roses produced the same result in England.
Here we have happiness and brotherhood, here there have never been wars or hatreds or prejudices.
To begin, when from the moment of your departure you had wars of your own, and killed, and hurled mocking prejudice against a race of people not like you, a race who rejected and cast you out into space again!
As a hardy crusader and captain in the Turkish wars he had fought manfully against the infidel in Hungary.
The attitude of Massachusetts toward England during the Civil Wars was a most unsatisfactory one; it was as it were prophetic of what was to come.
The country, from both political and social points of view, was still suffering from the confusion and anarchy which had resulted from the rule of the Lancastrians, and from the chaos left by the Wars of the Roses.
As a soldier in the wars in the Netherlands he had passed through many a danger.
The same may be said of the "Wars of Troy," though no indication of evil intention is apparent.
Nor can we stop from the warsin Palestine one of the warlike ancestors of our Parisian heroine, a proud Crusader, who brought to his domains an Oriental Eve, the beloved daughter of we know not what Saladin.
Unless he commands, all the leaders will be of equal rank, and we shall see the same rivalries among them that were so fatal to the royalist party in the old wars of La Vendée.
As a man, he is from sixty to sixty-two years old, and he belongs to that iron race which fought the wars of the Revolution and the Empire.
Perhaps in the same wars as yourself; though, instead of saying that I served, I ought only say that I fought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
