But what struck them most of all was the grim severity of the palaces, which appeared to be impregnable strongholds, and the towns still scarred with the marks of fierce and sanguinary faction fights.

When pride, by guilt, to greatness climbs, Or raging factions rush to war, Here let me learn to shun the crimes, I can't prevent, and will not share.

SENTINELLE, f., soldat placé en faction pour faire le guet.

Did the writers of Charles's faction delight in making their opponents appear contemptible?

Hark, by this thundering noise of threatening drums, Marius with all his faction hither comes. OCTAVIUS.

But Italian politics are only the wrangle of personal ambitions and of faction intrigues.

He had seen party chiefs and faction leaders go it for a whole afternoon, from four to eight, hoarse and puffing, sweating like diggers in a sewer, with their collars wilted to rags, watching the great hall-clock with the intentness of a man waiting to be hanged.

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Afterwards the royalists fought among themselves; but this was a mere faction quarrel, and was soon healed.

The furious factions splutter, Power's cheated claimants mutter, And foiled fire-eaters utter Most sanguinary threats.

Hear but not heed, though wild and shrill, The cries of faction transitory; Cleave to your good, eschew your ill, A Hundred Years and all is still Memento mori.

Those bars tell us something of the perils of life in Florence in the great days of faction ambition; while the thickness of the walls and solidity of construction tell us something too of the integrity of the Florentine builders.

A furious faction war had broken out in the North of Ireland, between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

Two opposing factions bump, utter chaos reigns supreme and the side which recovers first wins.

Hence the tone of extreme rage that dishonors the political contention of the period and the malice that stains the correspondence of the faction chiefs.