27 Verbs to Use for the Word fray

And hanging round her lover's neck, she saw that he turned pale, And seized his sword and cast one glance upon his coat of mail; And, with a burst of sighs and tears she bowed her beauteous head; "Oh, rise, my lord, gird on thy arms, and join the fray," she said; "Oh, let my tears this couch bedew; this couch of joy shall be As dolorous as the dreary field of battle, without thee!

However, they stood drawn up for battle and under arms, until night came on; neither side choosing to begin the fray.

"Old Grandfather Macintosh" By this time I am settled comfortably in the cushioned rocking-chair to watch the fray.

They unprovoked will court the fray: Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

Out of the smoke of the battle-line watching men win their way, And, cheering with those who cheer success, he enters again the fray, Licking the blood and the dust from his lips, wiping the sweat from his eyes, He does the work he is set to doand "therein honor lies.

My name is Hard Luckthe wrecker of rare dreams I follow all who seek the open fray; I am the shadow where the far light gleams For those who seek to know the open way;

They won victory after victory, upon which the old chroniclers love to dwell, pausing to describe wild frays among the chalk-hills and dense forests, which afforded convenient places to hide men and to bury spoils.

A more perfect Paddy never existed; and so, of course, he talked about fighting, and began detailing to me the various frays in which "we whipt the Britishers."

So long as Ioves great bird did make his flight, Bearing the fire with which heaven doth us fray, Heaven had not feare of that presumptuous might, With which the giaunts did the gods assay:

O' late they came to Hautwessel, And thowt they there wad drive a fray.

Actives and passives jostle in her nonsense, till a deponent enters, like Chaos, more to embroil the fray.

Save when to yonder hall they bend their way, Where the grave justice ends the grievous fray; He who recites, to keep the poor in awe, The law's vast volumefor he knows the law: To him with anger or with shame repair The injured peasant and deluded fair.

To view the fray, For us a feast is spread when Man goes forth to slay.

They lifted my Mexican friend, too, and I am pleased to say he, as well as myself, live to fight over again the sanguine fray of Resaca de la Palma.

An awful army, artfully array'd, Boldly by battery besieg'd Belgrade; Cossack commanders cannonading come, Dealing destruction's devastating doom, Every endeavour engineers essay, For fame, for fortune, forming furious fray.

"The woman Féto caused the fray, Ivan Larski shot him in her arms; he was her lover who paid, and Ladislaus the amant du coeur for the moment.

The loss of the Venetians was very great, for none of the foot-soldiers escaped, and there were about sixty prisoners of importance who were taken to Verona, where the successful French, Burgundians, and "landsknechte" were received with the utmost joy by their companions, whose only regret was that they had missed the fray.

Alfred naturally observes, that these drinking-bouts produced many frays; and notices the reason of the Estum or Esthonians brewing no ale, because they had abundance of mead.

Thence frequent quarrels, and, as we know, few guardians of the peace to quell the fray in this howling crowd.

"The wounded men no longer were downhearted, but eager to rejoin the fray.

Lovers and such may sing a roundelay, Whate'er that be, to greet returning May; For me, not muchthe season's all too short; I hear the mower hum and scent the fray.

Much have I seen of wars, lady, but ne'er saw eyes sterner fray than this"

Shame and revenge alternate filled his mind; The suburb-town to pillage he consigned, And devastationnot a dwelling spared; The very owl was from her covert scared; Then thus: "Though luckless in my aim to-day, To-morrow shall behold a sterner fray; This fort, in ashes, scattered o'er the plain.

Later accounts were not clear as to just what started the fray, but start it did.

(Since if we fall before th'appointed day, Nature and death continue long their fray.)

27 Verbs to Use for the Word  fray