Which preposition to use with warring
In his diplomatic career he was taken prisoner during the war with China; and, with Mr. Boulby, the Times correspondent, was carried about in a cage by his captors, and exhibited to the natives.
In the times of old, when the Indian and his brother the beaver, lived quietly together, before the greed of the white man had built up a war of extermination between them, this must have been a glorious country for the beaver.
There were all sorts of new delimitations and questions to be settled since the war in the Balkans, and Europe was getting visibly nervous.
It is a part of our civilization, an offshoot of the very progress of which you speak, a sort of necessity in practical results, at least, that men shall so live as to wage war against nature, and against themselves; that they shall hurry themselves, or be hurried by inevitable circumstances, into the grave at the earliest possible moment.
Little JACK will make war on the pie.
He has heard Uncle TOM talk of a big war between Frawnce and Proossia, and all about the soldiers and the cannon, and the big noises.
France wars for conquest; Prussia never.
It was perhaps only natural that in time of peace a brave knight like Acton should turn his thoughts from war to love-making, and therefore I shall make no excuse for relating a little experience of his which must be introduced as a prelude to the account of the formation of the famous supper club.
The Federal North would suffer most by war, while the Republican South might use war as a means of repudiating all the debts she owed to Englishmen.
That a virago is sometimes termed a "spit-fire" we all know, but that is hardly reason enough to excuse the French for such a lapse of gallantry as calling a thunderous and fatal implement of war by a soft feminine name.
But the natural order of events was completely upset by that headstrong Yankee, Ethan Allen, who would have his private war at Montreal, and by that contemptible British officer, Major Stopford, who would not defend Chambly.
Rumors of war from Europe must always be expected, for how can we get Pacific news by Atlantic Telegraph?
In your country the only limitation upon that power was the control of Parliament over the purse of the nation, and some of the great struggles in your history related to the attempt of the Crown to exact money to carry on the wars without a Parliament grant.
You are a trader, and have turned war into a trading venture.
" "Well, Mr. Soldier, if you insist, I know nothing better for a warrior to bear in mind in war than these simple lines: 'The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring.'" "You are right, Olympiathose are noble lines.
What more admirable service could have been performed than that inaugurated in the early months of the war under the Queen's Work for Women Fund, when work was secured for the women in luxury trades which were collapsing under war pressure?
"We're having enough trouble with ghosts and things without starting a war among ourselves.
France and Italy, the two big victor States of the Continent, were only able to carry on the War through the assistance of Great Britain and the United States.
You talk war like a book!"
It is possible to lose nobly; but to have lost a great war after having won so many battles would not have harmed the German people if it had not been represented abroad by the presumptuous vulgarity of the Kaiser and of all the members of his entourage, who were more or less guilty of the same attitude.
The fact that France Spain, the British Empire, and the United States might all be involved in war over it did not trouble the conspirators in the least.
All the adhering States have recognized their obligation to submit all controversies to arbitration, and that in any case they have no right to resort to war before the expiration of a term of three months after the verdict of the arbiters or the report of the Council (Clause 12).
Without Erminia that can hardly be, And yet I find a certain shame within That will not suffer me to see the Princess; I have a kind of War within my Soul, My Love against my Glory and my Honour; And I could wish,alas, I know not what: Prithee instruct me.
ARNOLD, H. H. War below zero.
If Germany (or any other country) wishes to have a colony in East Africa or West Africa, it is really ridiculous to go to war about such a matter.