815 examples of clash in sentences

Next Anger rushed: his eyes, on fire, In lightnings owned his secret stings; In one rude clash he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings.

The dome where pleasure holds her midnight reign Here, richly decked, admits the gorgeous train: Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare.

She smelt coffee, heard the clash of tin cup and plate, and realized that he was eating.

Her spirit had risen undaunted in a crisis; in a clash of wills hers had not gone down before his.

Indeed, whole systems of glands may work in unison, or be pitted against each other in certain situations, especially when the organism is subjected to conflicting impulses with the clash of opposing instincts, like fear and anger.

It is well too in these days not to forget Colonel Marchand, if only to remember that such a clash must never recur.

" A confused thunder of gongs, the clash of cymbals smothered in the distance, maintained a throbbing uproar, pierced now and then by savage yells, prolonged and melancholy.

his bright blade puzzling the sight, scattering like quicksilver in the endless whirl and clash.

Drawing nearer to a faint clash of cymbals in some joss-house, they halted before a blind wall.

But what may be said with clear conviction is, that to attempt to account for the clash of war by the ambition and armaments of a single Power is to think far too simply of how these catastrophes originate.

she whispered, "Listen!" Now as they sat there, very silent,faint and far-away upon the still night air, they heard a sound; a silvery, rhythmic sound, it was,like the musical clash of fairy cymbals which drew rapidly nearer, and nearer; and Bellew felt that Miss Priscilla's hand was trembling upon his arm as she leaned forward, listening with a smile upon her parted lips, and a light in her eyes that was ineffably tender.

"The dominion of the Church marches in the paths of heaven; it cannot therefore clash with the dominion of princes, which marches on the paths of earth.

"I don't want to clash with the Government, but whatever happens I mean to have my five minutes first.

There is not a point in life on which our interests, as well as our theories, do not clash.

The Chief Justice might submit, and thus avert, temporarily at least, a clash; or, he might hold such an amendment unconstitutional as denying to the Court the right to administer the law according to due process.

Were a similar clash to occur in America no such result could be anticipated.

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM P. Last clash of Claymores.

The clash of political ideals; a source book on democracy, communism and the totalitarian state.

CHANDLER, CHARLES W. The clash of political ideals.

CHENEY, MARGARET F. The clash of political ideals.

Study and strife, and fame and love; the pride of the philosopher, the rapture of the poet, the blaze of eloquence, the clash of arms, the vows of passion, the execration and the applause of millions; both once alike welcome to his indomitable soul!

And loud was the clash of swords and scimitars upraised and warded off by heroic hands in course of those fierce encounters.

Perhaps the most interesting opposition is that which results from the clash between what I lately called the sympathetic and the cynical temper.

I understand, however, that it is intended to remove some of the more obstructive of the larger trees; but the avenue of cypress trees, which perished from drought some years ago, has been replanted on lines which eventually will clash seriously with the architectural composition.

But the discord comes; colours clash; the jarring note spoils the chord; the idol once accepted as of gold and precious stones, proves to be only common clay, thinly gilt.

815 examples of  clash  in sentences