80 Metaphors for battling

In this preliminary bombardment more than one million shells were fired daily, and the prolonged battle which ensued was the greatest of all time.

All this gunpowder business was detestable to the great knight, who had been trained in the old school of chivalry, where gentlemen showed their skill in the use of arms, and fought bravely against each other, while a battle was a kind of glorified tournament.

The battle of the 25th was the most brilliant and decisive since that of Badli-ki-Serai on June 8.

Little battles of this sort were a running accompaniment of graver struggles during all these battling years.

Since the battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier, Duke Louis of Orleans had been a prisoner in the Tower of Bourges, and so strictly guarded that he was confined at night in an iron cage like Cardinal Balue's for fear he should escape.

A tournament with, mayhap, a few broken heads furnished him great enjoyment; but a real battle between two men, each seeking the other's life, was such keen pleasure to his savage, blood-loving nature, that its importance could hardly be measured.

A long month in the terrible cold, on the summits of the Balkan range; the forced retreat through the snow after the battle of Taskosen; the neck-and-neck race with the Russians down the valley of the Maritza; finally, the hot little battle on the river-bank, and the two days of hand-to-hand struggle in the vine-yard of Stanimakathis was a campaign to break the constitution of any soldier.

A quail fight, a battle between two trained rams, a cock fight, even an encounter between trained tamed buffaloes, are very common spectacles in the villages; but the most popular sport is a good wrestling match.

Jesse Battle was my mother's owner before she married.

But, no matter with which side rested the victory, there was no gainsaying the fact that the battle of Jutland was the greatest naval struggle of all time.

By the cold apathy of his manner, the captain saw at once that the battle of Lexington had not been a secret to the Tuscarora, when he commenced his own account.

The futility of most of these schemes for badgering the poor makes one feel at times that these battles are shams and unavailing.

The second battle was really a victory, but all rejoicing was damped by the news that one consul was dead and the other dying.

The battle will be less a battle, than a tournament of dames.

Writing in March, 1830, concerning the old whist days, to William Ayrton, one of the old whist-playing company, and the neighbour of the Burneys in Little James Street, Pimlico, Lamb makes use of an elision which, I think, may be taken as more than support of the theory that Mrs. Battle and Mrs. Burney were largely the samepractically proof.

The fact that Mrs. Battle and Mrs. Burney were both Sarahs is a small piece of evidence towards their fusion, but there is something more conclusive in the correspondence.

The time is some fifty years or more before the battle of Kurukshetra and the ruling king is Ugrasena.

In spite of what I have said above, the "Battle of Constantine," planned by Raphael, and executed by Giulio, is a grand example of a pupil's power to carry out his master's scheme.

Both in the number of lives and the tonnage lost, the battle was the greatest sea-fight in history, as well as the first in which modern dreadnaughts have been engaged.

This battle was the signal for division of counsels in the new Assembly.

The "Battle of Gibeon" is a poem inspired by Martin's picture of Joshua; the last stanza runs thus: Made known by marvels awfully sublime!

The battles, however, are not such gory conflicts as Scott and Kipling can paint.

If, indeed, this battle, this slaughter and stress, is life, why have we this craving for pleasure and beauty?

John was giving one lad a pretty good pegging, when the others decided that the battle was too much his way, and jumped on him.

No. 161, The Battle between Constantine and Maxentius, is a sketch by Rubens, possessing wonderful fire and spirit, as well as great mellowness of colour.

80 Metaphors for  battling