27 Metaphors for fightings

Fighting is bad work.

The fighting in midair was desultory but deadly.

Fighting is certainly a deeply ingrained instinct in the human racethe masculine portion.

The fighting at Neuve Chapelle, Hill 60 and Ypres was probably the most sanguinary of the entire war up to that time.

" "No like fight in Ireland, hah?" "I'll not say thatno, I'll not say that; for many's the jollification at which the fighting is the chafe amusement.

Street fighting is our affair, you see," he continues.

Still laughing, as if blindfolded fighting was his meat and drink, he reached again, and this time his fingers closed on enemy flesh.

"This fighting is serious business, and no one should meddle with it whose duty does not command it of him.

In Nieuport and Dixmude themselves the fighting was frequently from house to house, the most deadly form of fighting known.

He was himself (like my admirable friend) one of the most forgiving of men; and the fighting was the taste of the age, in which chivalry was still flourishing in the shape of such men as Bayard, and ferocity in men like Gaston de Foix.

Her fightings with her young neighbor had been the beginnings of an affection; and this violent antagonism was no more than an equally violent innate passion for him, first showing under the form of opposition.

Mine was, at least, a fighting chance, and fighting was my trade.

The fighting was hand to hand.

It began to be felt, faintly of course and never consciously, that fighting was a thing that foreigners had to do.

"It seems to me that the fighting up here in the North was child's play in comparison with that in the South.

Cock-fighting and horse-racing are "Southern institutions.

The intention was to capture Ypres forthwith, by the overwhelming power of numbers, and the day's fighting was a crucial test of the holding power of the Allies in the Ypres salient.

Fighting was the one aim of life.

" The idleness, contempt of labor, dissipation, sensuality, brutality, cruelty, and meanness, engendered by the habit of making men and women work without pay, and flogging them if they demur at it, constitutes a congenial soil out of which cock-fighting and horse-racing are the spontaneous growth.

"Actual fighting is to me a relief, a forgetfulness, an excitement, and is so with many of my comrades.

Of the public amusements cock-fighting is the chief, but it is not so eagerly pursued as in Luzon.

He fought wherever the fighting was fiercest, and was finally killed by the Moslems, who cut off his hands and placed his head on a spear.

More and more Chinese moved into the south-west, and took the land from the natives, and the fighting was the consequence of this.

But he felt quite sure that fighting was not his chosen field.

Mr. Kretschmer perceived, by the darkening faces and downcast look of his audience, that the prudence he was preaching had already commenced to press the courage of the poor people into the background, and raising his voice still higher he continued: "Your fighting will be a species of suicide.

27 Metaphors for  fightings