Word: fight
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Second, that at Moon's dock, before a crowd of spectators composed of gentlemen and ladies, he, with others of the Yale crew, used the same insulting language in regard to Captain Goodwin, and, appealing to the usual rowdy argument, wanted to fight him on the spot. The cool and gentlemanly behavior of our crew at this time alone prevented a general and disgraceful fight...
Must deal hard blows in many a fight...
There those grand old trees have stood for nearly a century and a half! Through the years which witnessed the struggle for emancipation from the tyranny of the mother country, the war of 1812, and, lastly, the great fight for the equal rights of the whole human race, the elms by the Granary Burying-Ground have continued to increase in beauty and strength, until they have come to be to many of us a much-loved memorial of our forefathers and their times; and in their gnarled trunks, as in the furrows of an aged warrior's face, we seem...
...Meanwhile, the elections in England seem to have been carried on with as much disturbance as ever disgraced us in our most bitter party contests. It is difficult to perceive what benefit is to accrue to the English working-people from any change in the Ministry; but perhaps they fight first and reflect afterwards, or, more likely still, do not reflect...
...having been the time of two men, of whom the one was conqueror of England, and the other was savior of the Church. Duke William is popularly believed to have had the qualities of a strategist and of a statesman, in addition to rare ability in conducting a pitched fight. Hildebrand is universally admitted to have been the ideal of an ecclesiastical hero: he had one purpose directing all the actions of his life, which was to make the Papal Church the supreme principality; he laid his plots deep, and was quick to seize every possible advantage in executing them...