1937 examples of strife in sentences

Nevertheless, almost every man in their front rank, chief and gentleman, fell before the deadly weapons which they had braved; and, although the enemy gave way, it was not till every bayonet was bent and bloody with the strife.

This hath driven All outward strife and tumult from my mind, And humbled me, until I have forgiven My bitter enemies, and only seek To find the straight and narrow path to heaven.

Severedwere it severed only By an idle thought of strife, Such as time might knit together; Not the broken chord of life!

I am speaking, too, within the hearing of those whose gentle nature, whose finer instincts, whose purer minds, have not suffered as some of us have suffered in the turmoil and strife of life.

Caste is a symptom of arrested social development; and no community which tolerates it is free from the scourge of civil strife.

Such injustice would produce strife, jealousy, and alarming dissensions among them.

From these facts it appears that in a government organized like ours domestic strife, or even a well-grounded fear of civil hostilities, is more destructive to our public and private interests than the most formidable foreign war.

The First Chronicler: Under the stars an end is made, And on the field the Southern blade Lies broken, And, where strife was, shall union be,

It is much better to be than to do;one is a strife, the other is possession.

As theoretical equals,practical equality being forever out of the question, either by nature or by law,there could have been nothing but strife between them, in which the weaker party would invariably have suffered most.

When I had to decide as to a profession, who could have suspected the conflict that transacted itself in my soul, while my brain was indifferent to the matterthat agony of strife with which the brawling voices shouted, the one: 'Be a scientista doctor,' and the other: 'Be a lawyer, an engineer, an artistbe anything but a doctor!'

As to all the disputes, wrangling, strife, and contention which have happened in the world about religion, whether niceties in doctrines, or schemes of church-government, they were all perfectly useless to us, and, for aught I can yet see, they have been so to the rest of the world.

His political theory strikes a middle course which offendsand in his own day offendedboth parties in the common strife of political thinking.

[Written in the night of the 17th and 18th of June, as I lay, severely wounded and helpless in a wood, expecting to die.] "My deep wound burns;my pale lips quake in death, I feel my fainting heart resign its strife, And reaching now the limit of my life, Lord, to thy will I yield my parting breath!

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So stands she, with her all at stake, And battles for her own dear life, That by one victory she may make For evermore an end of strife.

The House, where party strife for a brief space was hushed by mutual consent, is now devastated by the energies of indiscreet, importunate, egotistic or frankly disloyal question-mongers.

But three thousand miles of ocean no longer keep America free from strife.

In spite of the Coalition, or perhaps because of it, the old strife of Whigs and Tories has revived, though the lines of cleavage are quite different from what they were.

And he who brought these armies into life, And on them set the impress of his will Could he be moved by sound of mortal strife, There where he lies, their Captain, cold and still Under the shrouding tide, How would his great heart stir and glow with pride!

A large number did not wish to do even that, and an equally large number fearing that Pompey might renew the strife regarded this as quite enough for Caesar and expected that it would be a fairly simple matter to placate Pompey on account of it.

[-22-]Marcus Caelius actually perished because he dared to break the laws laid down by Caesar regarding loans of money, as if their propounder was defeated and ruined, and because he had therefore stirred up to strife Rome and Campania.

"Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife."Prov., xxx, 33.

"As coals to burning coals, and as wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife."Prov., xxvi, 21.

There has been internal strife.

1937 examples of  strife  in sentences