1014 collocations for fight

When engaged in the active business of life, struggling with its cares, and fighting its battles, he always took half an hour in the morning, and as long at evening, to smoke his pipe and read the news of the day.

These and a thousand other mighty triumphs of human ingenuity have fought their way onward to their present position, against the fogyism of philosophy, the inertia of the schoolmen.

The terrific charge of these fierce Highlanders, combined with their dress, struck terror into the hearts of the Russians; who said that they thought they had come to fight men, but did not bargain for demons in petticoats!

Bob Acres was not much for valor and he made an ass of himself when he went to fight a duel, yet one could have sat agreeably at mutton with him.

Yet he found it woefully hard to settle his mind on mathematics while Dave was fighting the fight of his Naval Academy career.

The blind rage of a few moments was gone and he fought now as he had fought his deadliest enemy, the long-clawed lynx.

one must fight fire with fire.

The habitant cared nothing for the incomprehensible constitutionalities over which different kinds of British foreigners were fighting their exasperating civil war.

I consider that his services to the country and the army by trailing, finding and fighting Indians, and thus protecting the frontier settlers, and by guiding commands over the best and most practicable routes, have been far beyond the compensation he has received.

They are tough old Dragons, now, we tell you; perhaps it were best to fight shy of them.

I hear we are fighting the French, and that means that the tribes of the Canadas will be on the move.

" "Well, you'll see him within an hour," said Ringan, "It's a queer story, but it seems he fell in with a Monacan war party, and since he and Bacon had been fighting their deadly foes, the Susquehannocks, they treated him well, and brought him south into Carolina.

Should he fail to do that there was scarcely a possibility of the Turks holding us up till we got to the Jaffa-Jerusalem road, though between Gaza and that metalled highway there were many points of strength from which they could fight delaying actions.

They leaped upon each other with the fierceness of tigers, and fought hand to hand and foot to foot with bayonets and knives.

He was practically safe aboard the Fell; for Arnold had neither an army strong enough to take Quebec nor any craft big enough to fight a ship.

Lord Albemarle was the British ambassador to France; so Carleton got the post and travelled under the happiest auspices, while learning the frontier on which the Belgian, French, and British allies were to fight the Germans in the Great World War of 1914.

It was upon that we did most of our fighting the other day, and it is a mighty good brace-up, I assure you.

First he had discovered that by fighting a thing, one can actually conquer.

A century had elapsed since the citizens of Thebes had gone out valiantly to fight the army of Slavonian rebels in the reign of Michael IV (the Paphlagonian), and that defeat had long been forgotten.

There was fighting blood in her veins, and the tones of her voice told clearly enough that it was astir at this moment.

The smaller States could easily have ended the convention by an appeal to public opinion, which was not then prepared for a "consolidated union," but they were loyal enough to fight out their quarrels within the walls of the convention hall.

" "It was not a nightmare then; I really fought that beast?"

These heathen pirates, he sees, fight his people at terrible advantage by reason of their command of the sea.

heart o' mine till I, even as they, methinks, do burn to fight Pentavalon's cause, to shield her from woeful shame andha! such vile sights as yon!" Now looking where Sir Benedict pointed, Beltane beheld a thing, crookedly contorted, a-dangle from a knotted branch that jutted athwart the way, insomuch that the must needs stoop, cowering in his saddle, lest he touch the twisted feet of it.

We dare neither fight the devil nor brave the ocean.

1014 collocations for  fight