Which preposition to use with combatting

with Occurrences 159%

Thus engaging in desperate single combat with what, for making a ferocious fight before any recognizable tune can he rescued from it, is, perhaps, the most exhausting instrument known to evening amateurs and maddened neighborhoods, Mr. BUMSTEAD passes three athletic hours.

of Occurrences 92%

To possess this magnetism of soul, this heroism of life, this flame-like flower of character, is to be Victor in the great combats of the race.

between Occurrences 68%

We cannot dispossess our minds of the apprehension of cutting ourselves, remembering that line descriptive of the combat between FITZ-JAMES and RODERICK DHU, in which it is said, that, "thrice the Saxon blade drank blood.

in Occurrences 59%

We have seen a moral combat in the minds of most of the people who have had to do with our luckless Jack.

on Occurrences 20%

The rapidity with which the best galleys were sunk or disabled appalled the bravest; and at last the Turks shrank from close combat on an element where they saw that valor without experience was of no avail.

for Occurrences 20%

The combat for sometime was furious.

at Occurrences 13%

You will of course go first, because of its broad fame, to the page on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and their wet-combats at the Mermaid.

against Occurrences 11%

In the second place, conforming to the spirit of the times, he wished, just as Bibliander had done in his refutation of the Qorân, to combine the combat against Mohammedan unbelief with that against the Turkish Empire ("in oppugnationem Mahometanae perfidiae et

as Occurrences 9%

The Sons of the West Wind have seen the courage of the stranger, and would give him the right of combat as a free man and a brave.

to Occurrences 6%

The blow was shrewd, and would have brought the combat to an end had not the giant parried with his mace.

by Occurrences 5%

The battle of Chancellorsville followed, and Lee's statement of the part borne in this hard combat by Jackson has been given.

from Occurrences 4%

The views which I have here tried to sketch as aspects of the organization of the army can be combated from several standpoints.

before Occurrences 3%

It is for your lordship to stir up that remembrance in his majesty, which his many avocations of business have caused him, I fear, to lay aside; and, as himself and his royal brother are the heroes of the poem, to represent to them the images of their warlike predecessors; as Achilles is said to be roused to glory with the sight of the combat before the ships.

without Occurrences 2%

Patience will doubtless have here its great inconveniencies; the Confederacy of the cotton States, if combated without vigor, will seem the living proof of the right of separation; it will be an asylum all prepared, in which the discontented border States can take refuge at need.

during Occurrences 2%

Arkadi was at least forty miles, as the roads go, from Kalepa,a long day's journey as travel goes there; but I received news of the fight soon after it began, and information of the progress of the combat during the day, one of my customary informants coming every few hours with the details.

like Occurrences 2%

I but repeat their words saying that he cherisheth understanding above his years, that in eloquent speech and boldness he is as the wide-winged eagle among birds, and his strength in combat like a tower.

over Occurrences 2%

Our observation of fire being necessarily carried out by aircraft, and the enemy attempting similar measures in his return gunfire, resulted in aerial combats over the monitors being a frequent occurrence.

within Occurrences 2%

The Spanish captain sent back an insolent answer, saying that he would not withdraw anything he had said, and that he would prove his words in mortal combat within twelve days, two miles from the walls of Andria.

about Occurrences 2%

Then Concobar arose and took his gear of battle and of conflict and of combat about him, saying, "Why should we not give battle?" A third of the army of the Ulaid rose with him, too.

than Occurrences 1%

Two of the nine games were drawn and one other went into extra innings, making a more extended combat than the world's series.

through Occurrences 1%

We were under the same roof, and during the evening I sat close to him in the common room and heard him talk,a strenuous old man, his empty sleeve recalling tragically the combats through which he had passed.

behind Occurrences 1%

Meantime the combat behind them proceeded with vigor, the shots crashing in volleys, accompanied by shouts, and once by the cry of a stricken soldier.

under Occurrences 1%

Moreover he forbade them to spend from their own means on these occasions more than they received from the other source, or to have armed combat under any other conditions than if the senate should vote for it, and even then there were to be not more than two such contests in each year and they should consist of not more than one hundred and twenty men.

until Occurrences 1%

The ships continued the combat until night, notwithstanding the betrayal of their cause by their commander.

into Occurrences 1%

His enterprise seemed almost crowned with success; when the inhabitants, recovering from their fright, precipitated themselves from the town; forced the assailants to retreat to their boats; and, carrying the combat into those overcharged and fragile vessels, upset several, and among others that which contained Schenck himself, who, covered with wounds, and fighting to the last gasp, was drowned with the greater part of his followers.

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