75 Metaphors for fighting

This fighting was a sober, sad subject; and yet at times it took a turn toward the ludicrous.

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.

The fight had become a symbol, almost a message to him, even as his gift to the Mullah had become a message to the people of Chiltistan.

And then Joe understood that his work was not child's play; that the fight was man-size; that it had its dangers, its perils, its fierce struggles.

Mattathias was sufficiently enlightened to perceive that fighting on the Sabbath, if attacked, was a supreme necessity, remembering doubtless that Moses recognized the right of necessary work even on the sacred day of rest.

J.B. Well, Ma'am, I don't know whether a cat-and-dog fight is a case of what God hath joined together; but it's the hard thing for man to put asunder!

His fight at first had been partly force of habit, but he was so entirely crushed that they could only have pity on him when he put himself so entirely in their hands, only begging for forbearance to his wife and her aged father, and entreating that principal, interest, and compound interest might at once be tendered to Mrs. Poynsett.

It would seem that the earlier comers, who had drawn up their long ships on the beach, and thrown up earthworks round their camp, instantly resented the attempt of later arrivals to poach on their preserves, and that a fierce fight was the result.

This sea fight in the South Atlantic was the most important engagement in which British men-of-war had participated since the era of Napoleon.

A fair fight, a free-for-all who are unhandicapped, is the motto of natural selection.

THE FIGHT There is a certain sort of fellowwe who are used to studying boys all know him well enoughof whom you can predicate with almost positive certainty, after he has been a month at school, that he is sure to have a fight, and with almost equal certainty that he will have but one.

"The Fight for Calais" is a chapter of history which for the Germans is written in blood.

Truly, as the fight was a deliverance to them, they were in the right to give thanks for it; but as to its being a victory, neither side had much to boast of, and they less a great deal than we had.

With sufficient provocation I even attacked attendantsproblems in themselves; but such fights as I subsequently engaged in were fights either for my own rights or the rights of others.

But our real fights are mostly commonplace, routine battles, where no great victory is ours at the end of the day.

Next day the Siner-Pack fight was the focus of news interest in Hooker's Bend.

"After all our work, are you going to give him up without a fight?" "A fight would be a gunfight, and a gunfight ends up in a death," said Bull gently.

Altogether there was an audacity to his face, a daring, convincing me he was no mere lady's knight, but one to whom fighting was a trade.

A fierce fight is often an earnest of future friendship, however, for we are told that Halfdan and Viking, having failed to conquer Njorfe, even after a most obstinate struggle, sheathed their swords and accepted him as a third in their close bond of friendship.

" Jack's fight was the talk of the day aboard the Queen Mary; and aboard the Indefatigable, too, for that matter.

The 1st clause declares that since cock-fights are a source of revenue to the State, they shall only take place in arenas licensed by the Government.

The chief was a fine-looking man named Alessandro, and as a fight was the last thing we desired, a parley was called when they reached the rope.

The fight was a succession of single combats, each man sheltering himself behind a stump, or rock, or tree-trunk, the superiority of the backwoodsmen in the use of the rifle being offset by the superiority of their foes in the art of hiding and of shielding themselves from harm.

THE FIGHT FOR CONSERVATION CHAPTER I PROSPERITY The most prosperous nation of to-day is the United States.

Then for a few moments the fight was savage and swift.

75 Metaphors for  fighting