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Sentences starting with enemies

Enemies he had in plenty, but there are no records left of their opinion of his character. [4]

Sentences ending with enemies

Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies. [2]
He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies. [2]
Such, for instance, was the estimable man to whom I have repeatedly referred as a warm defender of tractoration, and a bitter assailant of its enemies. [6]
The elder Herr von Nordwyk agreed with him, exclaiming: "With all due respect to your dignity, Herr Peter, your three companions in office belong to the ranks of bad friends, who would willingly be exchanged for open enemies. [10]
Frequently their sparring took the form of a serious discussion, which served a double purpose; first their minds, accustomed to serious thought, found exercise in spite of the murderous pressure of the burden of forced labor, and secondly, they were supposed really to be enemies. [10]
Egypt will shake to its foundations--to the joy of its enemies. [11]
Bern, it's divine to forgive your enemies. [13]
If at any time thou dost want help, call me, and I will protect thee against twenty enemies. [10]
I have made this explanation to you as a friend; but I wish no explanation made to our enemies. [7]
To these deficiencies there might be added one still more serious, namely, that he cannot climb quickly, and so escape from enemies. [1]

Short sentences using enemies

They are my enemies. [2]
He was among enemies. [11]
We must not be enemies. [7]
I've got enemies. [9]

Sentences containing enemies two or more times

We have found out, too, who our European enemies are, and why they are our enemies. [6]
They have been enemies, but noble enemies. [11]
We know our enemies, and they are the enemies of popular rights. [6]

More example sentences with the word enemies in them

The worst of your enemies always will be your guest to-night. [11]
Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
I agree with you that enemies are easy enough to find, but only fools go out to look for them. [10]
And beneath this wrath, stimulating and energizing it the more, was the ache in his soul from the loss for which he held these enemies responsible. [9]
The cannonshots had wounded him fatally, he had crept to that unfriendly place in the fog, and there, surrounded by his enemies and in constant danger of detection, he had wasted away with hunger and suffering till death gave him peace. [5]
I thought he would fly to the front, and be brave and noble, and stand up for me against all the world, and defy my enemies, and wither these gossips with his scorn! [5]
He wasn't charged with saying it in the pulpit, where all the congregation could hear and testify, but only outside, in talk; and it is easy for enemies to manufacture that. [5]
I distrust the wisdom if not the sincerity of friends who would hold my hands while my enemies stab me. [7]
Even his enemies will concede that. [5]
Elsewhere their appetites will be sure to make them enemies, or, what are almost as bad, friends whose interests are at variance with the claims of their exacting necessities and demands. [6]
I now perceive why all men are the deadly and uncompromising enemies of the rattlesnake: it is merely because the rattlesnake has not speech. [5]
But even one who loved him could not carry through his incompleted work against the assaults of his enemies, who were powerful, watchful, astute, and merciless; who had a greed which set money higher than all else in the world. [11]
From the manuscript which lies before me I extract a single passage:-- "In the year 1775 we had many enemies and many friends in England, but our one benefactor was King George the Third. [6]
We know pretty well how much of sincerity there is in the fears so clamorously expressed, and how far they are found in company with uncompromising hostility to the armed enemies of the nation. [6]
The only safe way is that taught by horticulture, to feed a fruit-tree generously, so that it has vigor enough to throw off its degenerate tendencies and its enemies, or, as the doctors say in medical practice, bring up the general system. [4]
They filled the waterways with shattered houses and the bodies of their enemies, as they fought their way to Montezuma's palace. [11]
But as food was too precious to be given to foreigners, who were for the most part enemies, Napoleon preferred to supply them with money with which to purchase food from outside, and had paper rubles distributed to them. [2]
What delight it was to burst from the shelter of the thicket and touch with our poles two, three, or four of the surprised enemies ere they thought of defence! [10]
He said there was hundreds of soldiers there, and elephants and treasure, and so on, but we had enemies which he called magicians; and they had turned the whole thing into an infant Sunday-school, just out of spite. [5]
But since the war began Grandjon-Larisse had gone one way, and he had gone the other, bitter enemies in principle but friendly enough at heart. [11]
We elected to walk upright, for convenience's sake; we argued that if discerned, we should be taken for friends rather than enemies, and in any case we should be out of reach of swords, and these gentry did not seem to have any spears along. [5]
Perhaps his obtrusive virtues made him enemies, and his rectitude was a standing offense to his associates. [4]
We are all very reliable people here, who have no enemies, and who want to keep their friends alive. [11]
It needed no very keen perception to discover this part of the enemies program, so soon as by open hostilities their machinery was fairly put in motion. [7]
Show Thy mercy upon us this day, O Lord, and grant us Thy salvation; make the hearts of Thy servants to rejoice in Thy mercy; smite down our enemies and destroy them swiftly beneath the feet of Thy faithful servants! [2]
He therefore waited until the enemies of the Union struck the first blow. [7]
I arose and undressed, moving on tiptoe about the room, doing stealthily what I had to do, as if I were environed by sleeping enemies whose slumbers it would be fatal to break. [5]
Those enemies must understand that they cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government, and if they fail, still come back into the Union unhurt. [7]
There was something uncanny in this self-control, this sang froid with which he was wont to sit at boards waiting unmoved for the time when he should draw his net about his enemies, and strangle them without pity. [9]
Whatever is the truth about Mr. Wingfield's inefficiency and embezzlement of corn meal, Communion sack, and penny whittles, his enemies had no respect for each other or concord among themselves. [4]
The man who tries to make enemies is like a wretch who mutilates his own body. [10]
Now and then, too, a ribald jest came from some young roisterer near, and the fact that I stood alone among sneering enemies wound me up to a point where pride was more active than aught else. [11]
These English had toiled, slow but resistless, over the misty Blue Ridge after Boone and Harrod to this old St. Louis of the French, their enemies, whose fur traders and missionaries had long followed the veins of the vast western wilderness. [9]
You have only to see who are our friends and who are our enemies in this struggle, to decide for what principles we are combating. [6]
Are they enemies to me and to the Dauphin's weal, or are they friends? [5]
His effort is to make the impression that his enemies first made the charge of toryism and he drove them from that, then Sampson's ghost, he drove them from that, then finally the assignment charge was manufactured just before election. [7]
They are known to be bitter enemies, and it is said that Jethro Bass has but one object in returning to the field--to crush the president of the Truro Railroad. [9]
Nevertheless it came to a street fight, for the enemies of order were skillful enough to start a fresh conflagration with the charred beams of the house whose fire had been put out. [10]
At the same time it was desirable to rescue as much as possible from the flames; for it would have given his enemies a fatal hold upon him, if the famous old city of Memphis should perish by his neglect. [10]
Tall and stern, they were stout enemies, but they had no firearms, and, as could be seen, they were astonished at the look of the little band, which, at the command of De Troyes, who with Iberville was in the first boat, came steadily on. [11]
By this desertion they weakened the colony, which waited for their return with the provisions, and they made implacable enemies of the Indians by their violence. [4]
Is there, has there ever been, any question that by the law of war, property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed? [7]
Then I told them that this was only a bit of enchantment which would work harm to none but my enemies. [5]
Both learned in their early years to look upon Britons as the enemies of their country. [6]
The number of their collected enemies was great, but Hermas had hopes of outstripping them, for his prisoner revealed to him the spot where their boats, drawn up on shore, lay hidden under sand and stones. [10]
Love your enemies, the Saviour commanded; and you. [10]
The voice of the reader moved in pleasant yet vibrant modulations: "The King was now come to a time when his enemies wickedly began to plot against him secretly and to oppose him in his purposes; which, in his own mind, were beneficent and magnanimous. [11]
You will find the physician Nebsecht here; but treat each other as enemies rather than as friends, if you do not wish to be parted. [10]
The reply of the mutineers was to row into Sheerness harbour and take away with them eight gunboats lying there, each of which fired a shot at the fort, as if to announce that the mutineers were now the avowed enemies of the government. [11]
His enemies, for the moment, could get nowhere near him. [9]
Human beings hate the man who shows kindness to their enemies. [10]
I am sure the Judge is a good man,--one of those aggressive good men who make enemies. [9]
They filled up the holes of the conversation with running commentaries, giving a dig at the luckless narrator and a side-slap at each other, until one would have given his oath they were sworn enemies. [9]
It was also the gossip of the bazaars that he had suddenly shown favour to those of the Royal House and to other reactionaries, who had been enemies to the influence of Claridge Pasha. [11]
But as before, the friends of the measure stood firm and voted in a solid body every time, and so did its enemies. [5]
At such times the fear grew upon Hodder that he might be recommended for trial, forced to abandon his fight to free the Church from the fetters that bound her: that the implacable hostility of his enemies would rob him of his opportunity. [9]
The words of the chant, following us, I could hear distinctly: "That we, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve Him without fear. [11]
He had sniffed the air of battle for over fifty years with all manner of enemies, and his heart was in the thing. [11]
You said once that you would help me make peace between my husband and Monsieur Iberville, but you join here with his enemies. [11]
You flatter yourself that you will make a good many enemies by leaving your old communion. [6]
No one doubts that the quadrupeds inhabiting snow-clad regions have been rendered white to protect them from their enemies, or to favour their stealing on their prey. [1]
It was here that the enemies of the King, that is, some stilt-walkers, with two dishonourable gentlemen who had suffered from the King's oppressions, placed themselves to way lay his Majesty. [11]
Her enemies charge that she surreptitiously took from Quimby a peculiar system of healing which was mind-cure with a Biblical basis. [5]
Ditmar should know that she had joined his enemies, the Industrial Workers of the World. [9]
I wonder now that I did not tell them so, for I was ever hasty; but my brain was clear that night, and I held myself in proper check, letting each move come from my enemies. [11]
Thus it happened that his best actions procured him not friends but enemies. [10]
She dully reflected that enemies were behind them--before them; still the thought awakened no dread or concern or interest. [13]
There was a temple in the town, with a mud wall about it ornamented with skulls of enemies sacrificed to the sun. [5]
They could not tell how many invaders were in the Fort; they suspected it was the Little Skins, their ancient enemies. [11]
The more you take the better you'll please me--and perhaps the less my--my enemies will get. [13]
All Napoleon's allies suddenly became his enemies and their forces advanced against the fresh forces he raised. [2]
In this great struggle, this form of government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. [7]
I love the sleep of the lover and the mighty; nor would I give it over till the blood of my enemies should wreak with that of my own. [5]
Well done--there were six enemies of the Lord destroyed at once. [10]
This was so significant that the enemies of David rejoiced anew. [11]
Military experts?--since what she had come to apply for was an army and the privilege of leading it to battle against the enemies of France. [5]
Later we will send them into the north, and post them in the fortresses which protect Egypt against enemies coming from the east Tanis, Daphne, Pelusium, Migdol. [10]
I did not say this in the public letter, because it is a subject I prefer not to discuss in the hearing of our enemies. [7]
Does the mighty Sachem yearn to drink the blood of his enemies, or is he satisfied to make bead reticules for the pappooses of the paleface? [5]
He would not run in ruts, like an old fellow who had got hackneyed; he would not have any hobbies; he would not have any friends or any enemies. [8]
These former enemies rose up against me with the most touching unanimity, and so overwhelmed me with revilings and threats that I left the room. [10]
Science names and registers the ills of life; and yet it is a gain to know the names and habits of our enemies. [4]
But I will recall only two of his sayings, both about General Grant, who always found plenty of enemies and critics to urge the President to oust him from his command. [7]
Rameses measured the proud and noble figure before him with a glance, and said severely: "I am prepared to treat for peace only with such of my enemies as are willing to bow to the double crown that I wear. [10]
I had the promise of the Church's prison when I submitted, and if I had but been there, and not left here in the hands of my enemies, this miserable fate had not befallen me. [5]
Well, I am prepared to yield to the wishes of my enemies, with whom thou hast leagued thyself, but only on two conditions. [10]
After a short personal intercourse with you, gentlemen of the committee, I cannot say I think you desire this effect to follow your attitude; but I assure your that both friends and enemies of the Union look upon it in this light. [7]
The paralysis--the dead palsy--of the government in this whole struggle is that this class of men will do nothing for the government, nothing for themselves, except demanding that the government shall not strike its open enemies, lest they be struck by accident! [7]
They are their own worst enemies, and do themselves a mischief each time they assail their neighbors. [3]
Will you give our enemies such military advantages as insure success, and then depend on coaxing, flattery, and concession to get them back into the Union? [7]
And there were other stars like November meteors hurrying across space--the lights of the British planes scouring the heavens for their relentless enemies. [9]
Beware of mocking or persecuting those who have been your enemies. [10]
To this region one of the prophecies is applied: "I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. [5]
And if you once heard him, in Parliament, you should hear him now, and see the Speaker wagging his wig like a man bewitched, and hear friends and enemies calling out for him to go on whenever he gives the sign of a pause. [9]
There we sat, on our tall scaffold, the butt of the hate and mockery of all those enemies. [5]
After the labors of the past night the Negro had allowed himself only a few hours rest, and then had met the council, where he had not been slow to discover that he had as many enemies as there were members present. [10]
She was thinking of the mothers of those dead friends and enemies. [5]
With a knowledge of the mischief done by these few, their wonderful marches and their widespread aggressions, their enemies cannot deny to them the attributes of courage and military tact. [5]
From the fact of the Heliconidae being conspicuous and beautiful insects, yet so numerous in individuals and species, he concluded that they must be protected from the attacks of enemies by some secretion or odour; and this conclusion has now been amply confirmed (30. [1]
And the sum of the doctrine contained in these words is this: Bless those that curse you, pray for your enemies and repent for those who persecute you, for 'if ye love them that love you what thank have ye? [10]

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