We are enabled to see England as she was in that great transition of her "making"in the throes of civil strife, again to be endured two centuries laterthrough which she must pass before she could become a "land of settled government.

Yet now will I speak thee plain, as thus: I am a smith, and have no lust to strife or knightly deeds, nor will I e'er attempt them, for strife begetteth bitter strife and war is an evil thing.

In vain we wage perpetual strife, 'Gainst instincts dumb and blind desires Who leads must serve..

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

There were certainly two wars going on in Great Britain for a long time, and the internal strife was little less bitter than the international conflict.

APOLOGY FOR VAGRANTS For him who, lost to every hope of life, Has long with fortune held unequal strife, Known, to no human love, no human care, The friendless, homeless object of despair; For the poor vagrant, feel while he complains, Nor from sad freedom send to sadder chains.

Likewise we have dissension among ourselves, and a constant strife with the froward human heart.

It may be objected that literature and art are ornamental affairs, which count for little in the deadly strife of nations.

They found the city free from domestic strife, partly from the concessions already made, partly from expectation of what was now to follow, and partly from the effect of a pestilence which had broken out anew.

Opposite, and just below the town, is Carlton Island, on which stand the ruins of an old French fortification, the walls and trenches and the solitary chimneys, from which the wooden barracks have rotted or been burned away, remain as melancholy testimonials of the bloody strifes between the red men of the forest, and the pioneers of civilization who were driving them from the hunting grounds of their fathers.

Son and Father driven To mortal strife!

Noours must be a bloodless strife, excepting our blood be shedfor we aim, as did Christ our leader, not to destroy men's lives, but to save themto overcome evil with goodto conquer through suffering for righteousness' saketo set the captive free by the potency of truth!

"Chetwood and Curll accept this glorious strife," the latter, as always, wins the obscene contest, "and the pleas'd dame soft-smiling leads away."

Side by side with the religious strife was a struggle for constitutional government, for legal taxes, for the right of freedom of speech in Parliament.

What is wedlock forced, but a hell, An age of discord and continual strife?

The old tribal strife continued for long centuries; the instincts which inspired it are, even now, not quite outworn.

While the murderous strife continued, the light of day began to dawn; and soon the full glow of the rising sun revealed the work that had been done in darkness.

it would bring no change Though blood for blood be spilled, and life For life be taken in fierce strife; 'Twill ne'er recall the life long sped, Or break the silence of the dead.

We have faint glimpses of Amina, in the dignity of her sorrow, waiting for the birth of her son, and in the house of Mecca's leading citizen, hearing around her not alone the celestial voices of her spirit-comforters, but also rumours of earthly strife and the threatenings of strange armies from the south.

Faithful old Mary, herself a Cree, would of course take their part, and it was very amusinglaughable at timesto listen to the wordy strife.

Doubtless if Pindar had been asked where the best servants of the state in public life were most likely to be found he would have answered that it would be among those ancient families in whose veins ran the blood of gods and demigods, who had spent blood and money for the city's honour, championing her in war or in the mimic strife of the games, who had honourable traditions to be guided by and an honourable name to lose or save.

Then, as now, half the world was prostrated by the wounds of fratricidal strife.

I do not mean in the next fight to stain My sword in blood of any Mexican, But will be present in the fatal strife, To guard Orazia's and the Inca's life.

Their principality arose out of the general political disturbance and the division of the Mohammedan empire into a number of kingdoms, whose mutual strife prevented them from undertaking military operations in the desert.

The blood of Zind inspires my burning hate, And dire resentment hurries on thy fate; Whom canst thou send to try the desperate strife? What valiant Chief, regardless of his life?