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Sentences starting with fighting

Fighting for the peace of Europe! [4]
Fighting because they must fight--not patriot love, nor understanding, nor sacrifice in their hearts. [11]
Fighting on, but in heart despairing, I and my people were forced to yield. [10]
Fighting had begun from that hour--a fighting which was putting his nature through bitter mortal exercises, yet, too, giving him a sense of being he had never known. [11]
Fighting would not frighten these men. [11]
Fighting my way forward, I saw him get down from the stump, put his hand kindly on Nick's shoulder, and lead him into the court-house. [9]
Fighting is not an easy trade, and to fight according to the rules is a very hard trade. [11]

Sentences ending with fighting

Early tomorrow, before you proceed to business, they will be replaced by a stronger division, so that they may not prove a reinforcement to your brother's troops here if things come to fighting. [10]
For over four years he worked night and day, steadily advancing towards his goal, breaking down opposition, manoeuvring, conciliating, fighting. [11]
They had served with Nicholls in Spain, but not having eaten King Louis's bread, eyed all Frenchmen askance, and were not needlessly courteous to Iberville, whose achievements they could scarce appreciate, having done no Indian fighting. [11]
I hope that we may get through without any more fighting. [9]
This troop met us in the green valley, and there we fell to fighting. [10]
She was right--not to kill without fighting. [11]
Men who want to fight will always put themselves in the most advantageous conditions for fighting. [2]
It did not thrive as well as that which I was fighting. [4]
Providence compelled all these men, striving to attain personal aims, to further the accomplishment of a stupendous result no one of them at all expected--neither Napoleon, nor Alexander, nor still less any of those who did the actual fighting. [2]
On these hills there were two wild stallions, each with a small troop of mares; "and it is certain that these stallions would never have approached each other without fighting. [1]

Short sentences using fighting

We are fighting yet. [11]
As if fighting were fun. [2]
No general fighting recently. [7]
You've watched some one fighting? [11]
There's no fighting like it. [11]
You were always for fighting. [9]
They were busy fighting Death. [11]
There's fighting on! [11]
They're fighting. [2]

Sentences containing fighting two or more times

And now he was fighting, fighting on board the Araminta. [11]
He would save us--two brothers--from fighting, by fighting me himself. [11]
The masses, the plain people, had to furnish the men for the fighting, if fighting was to be done. [7]
In the autumn of 1916 Mr. Wilson declared that "the people of the United States want to be sure what they are fighting about, and they want to be sure that they are fighting for the things that will bring the world justice and peace. [9]
His perfect health made his vision sure; and, though not a fine swordsman, he had done much fighting in his time, had been ever ready for the touch of steel; and had served some warlike days in fighting France, where fate had well befriended him. [11]
I am fighting it upon these "original principles," fighting it in the Jeffersonian, Washingtonian, and Madisonian fashion. [7]
I'm for making for the sea, and, when I get there, I'm for striking for the West Indies, where there's a British fleet fighting Britain's enemies, and for joining in and fighting with them. [11]
But to die fighting--ay, fighting for Egypt, since it must be, and fighting for thee, since it must be; to strike, and strike, and strike, and earn death! [11]
Then came fighting, fighting, nothing but fighting--endless charges of cavalry, continuous wheelings and advancings and retreatings, and the mad din of drums; afterwards, in a swift quiet, the deep, even thud of the horses' hoofs striking the ground. [11]
It makes little difference what we thought we were fighting for at first; we know what we are fighting for now, and what we are fighting against. [6]

More example sentences with the word fighting in them

This is why: you were fighting the man who gave you to the world. [11]
And what do you think George Pindar is fighting for? [9]
And yet, and yet," he added, half sadly, "how futile has been all our fighting, so far as human eye can see. [11]
Here the forces would have been fighting for him; the trend was towards the elevation of the standards of living and the wider rights of labour, to the amelioration of hard conditions of life among the poor. [11]
Now a skiff would dart away from one of them, and come fighting its laborious way across the desert of water. [5]
Your life is worth fighting for, but it will be a struggle. [11]
Prepared for the worst, they trudged on with blind hope, eager to die fighting if they must die, rather than to perish of hunger and thirst in the desert. [11]
She was a woman tortured beyond bearing; and she was fighting for her very life, mad with anguish as she struggled. [11]
Paaker is fighting with the Cheta. [10]
He kept company with German students, though more addicted to study than we members of the fighting clubs (corps). [6]
Isn't it a wife's duty to help her husband--Shouldn't you be fighting against Barode Barouche? [11]
Her own people who were fighting for Serapis--how were they faring; and Agne--what had become of her? [10]
Doing so he whispered in his ear: "In the name of Allah, tell Soada I died fighting the Dervishes! [11]
In this fashion, while his regiment thinned out by disease, famine, fighting, and the midnight knife, Seti came on to Dongola, to Berber, to Khartoum; and he grinned with satisfaction when he heard that they would make even for Kordofan. [11]
His own arguments while he was fighting for his life had, in a way, convinced himself. [11]
All this is what we see around us, now, now while we are actually fighting this great battle, and supporting this great load of indebtedness. [6]
Cilo told me what they were called, and where they lived; he then added that one day they would all belong to me; that I must learn the art of fighting, in case they resisted me, and should require suppressing. [10]
You are fighting what is stronger than yourself. [11]
War and fighting were their portion--as they ate, as they drank and slept. [11]
Moment after moment went, and though I had danced beyond reasonable limits, I still seemed to get new strength, as I have heard men say, in fighting, they 'come to their second wind. [11]
But the fighting went on just the same. [5]
Still another group went and brought away ten thousand pounds, and lost it in fighting with Spanish buccaneers. [11]
It is not well to starve on the chance of help coming, and then die fighting with weak arms and broken spirit. [11]
It was a weary and famished, but still a fighting and menacing army. [2]
And even if we do not win at once, it is better to suffer and die fighting than to have the life ground out of us--is it not? [9]
Above, an uncertain, watery moon flew in and out among the shifting clouds; and now and then a shot came through the mist and the half dusk, telling of some poor fugitive fighting, overtaken, or killed. [11]
Because her plan was to raise the siege immediately, by fighting, while theirs was to besiege the besiegers and starve them out by closing their communications--a plan which would require months in the consummation. [5]
At last here was to be a test of fighting in open field, though the French had in their whole army twice the number of our men, a walled and provisioned city behind them, and field-pieces in great number to bring against us. [11]
In appearance he was not now like the "Seigneur" who sang to the sailors on the Antoine when she was fighting for the shore of Gaspe; nevertheless there was that in him which would keep him much the same man to the end. [11]
When the tale was finished the Milesian did not attempt to conceal his strong disapprobation, and told Zopyrus that his most unseasonable love of fighting might be followed by the saddest consequences. [10]
While her heart was daily growing more bitter against him, he had been fighting his vessel against great odds, and at last had been shipwrecked and carried off a prisoner. [11]
The weapon mainly used was the bayonet, the fighting was desperate. [5]
What is the use of fighting against the seasons, or the tides, or the movements of the planetary bodies, or this ebb in the wave of life that flows through us? [6]
As he rode up to the camp he thought how he would impress Boris and all his comrades of the Guards by his appearance--that of a fighting hussar who had been under fire. [2]
Jim, drunken and unreliable, with broken will and fighting to find himself--the waste places were for him, until he was the master of his will and emotions. [11]
Tarboe grasped Lafarge's unmaimed hand,--the other Joan was caring for,--and swore that fighting was the only thing left now. [11]
In another corner two old bees are languidly fighting, or cleaning themselves, or feeding one another, without themselves knowing whether they do it with friendly or hostile intent. [2]
At that moment two men were fiercely fighting their way through the crowd towards where Ingolby was. [11]
From these thoughts, trying enough for a starved lad, I fell to thinking of my father on the frontier fighting the Cherokees. [9]
Virginia had no troops to send us, and her men were fighting barefoot with Washington against the armies of the British king. [9]
For example, General Trimble, captured fighting us at Gettysburg, is, without recanting his treason, a legal voter by the laws of Maryland. [7]
And therewith he took his harness and went out at a window by a sheet down to the four knights, and then Sir Launcelot said on high, Turn you knights unto me, and leave your fighting with that knight. [5]
But the tide, too, was running hard from the south, fighting the wind; and, at the moment when all seemed terribly uncertain, swept them past the opening and into the swift-running channel, where the indraught sucked them through to the more open water beyond. [11]
There, we were told, some of the fiercest fighting of the day had been done. [6]
Pentaur pulled himself together, sent out a battle-cry like some fighting hero who is defending his last stronghold, and brandished his new weapon. [10]
Ye are fighting to-day, not for me alone, but for the freedom of your own distant homes. [10]
Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. [7]
Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you. [7]
I have come to the hill Difficulty, Sir, and am fighting my way up.--His speech was laborious and interrupted. [6]
I went always to the front, where the fighting was thickest, to be remote from you in order that you might not see and be discouraged by the things I did to the enemy. [5]
It was easy to see that what he was listening to touched him painfully, and that the two diametrically different men were fighting a battle which could never lead to any satisfactory issue. [10]
She can't afford to see him slaughtered here, where he's fighting the fight of civilisation. [11]
He was content to satisfy himself with the suggestion that he looked upon himself as degraded by the public spectacle which he had made of himself, fighting on a tin roof, for the delectation of everybody a block or two around. [5]
It surprised me to notice, that, though there was every mark of hard fighting having taken place here, the Indian corn was not generally trodden down. [6]
I'm either up to my knees in grass or clay fighting Revolutionists, or I'm riding hard day and night till I'm round-backed like a wood-louse, to make up for all the good time I so badly lost in your little island. [11]
Pudd'nhead Wilson advanced to meet them, and said anxiously: "I must say a word in behalf of my principal's proxy, Count Luigi, to whom you have kindly granted the privilege of fighting my principal's battle for him. [5]
You will care to know of how these months have been spent, and what news of note there is of the fighting between our countries. [11]
Fielding also ought to have a few days clear away from this constant pressure and fighting, and the sounds and the smells of death; but it could not be yet. [11]
Will he remain to fall fighting for his ship? [9]
There's only this to be said--we'll be fighting the French soon, and it's easy to die in the midst of a great fight. [11]
This bar-room used to be famous for drinking and storytelling, and sometimes fighting, in old times. [6]
All this had to be dealt with, the prisoners and guns secured, the booty divided--not without some shouting and even a little fighting among themselves--and it was on this that the Cossacks all busied themselves. [2]
For a long time, oaths, angry shouts, and fighting could be heard from all sides. [2]
It was as though two spirits were fighting in his face for mastery. [11]
It was as though something in their meagre lives, which belonged to undeveloped feelings, was fighting for existence--a light struggling to break through murky veils of inexperience. [11]
Male birds sometimes, though rarely, possess special weapons for fighting with each other. [1]
It was not this time difficult to find me, for when she sought me we were fighting with the Blemmyes in the green hollow that leads from the mountain to the sea. [10]
The beginning of this eminence dated back to the days before the Empire, when there were many little principalities of railroads fighting among themselves. [9]
I tell you this because my father is fighting you, and you know what he will say. [9]
And so I think my friend the Judge is equally at fault when he charges me at the time when I was in Congress of having opposed our soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican war. [7]
Why was it they could not be standing side by side, fighting the same fight? [9]
In putting forward these tributes of admiration and affection, as well as in his constant allusion to the ill requital of his services, we see a man fighting for his reputation, and conscious of the necessity of doing so. [4]
Of course, where there is so much fighting, the students make it a point to keep themselves in constant practice with the foil. [5]
At any rate, there had been hard fighting in and about it. [6]
Comrades fell beside them, but, unscathed, they went on fighting. [11]
They came to their knees on the ground, where they clutched and strained for a wild minute, Valmond desperately fighting to keep the huge bony fingers from his neck. [11]
I give them their due: the trap was skillful, and in those times, with great things at stake, strategy took the place of open fighting here and there. [11]
That sense of the vastness of the British Empire, which at times is so profound, was mingled now with a knowledge that it was fighting for its life, marshalling all its resources for Armageddon. [9]
The watch of the Valiant, waking suddenly, sprang up and ran forward, making no outcry, dazed but bent on fighting. [11]
The lad with the turned-up sleeve gave the smith a blow in the face and cried wildly: "They're fighting us, lads! [2]
The noise of the tramping of great armies across the Old World shook the New, and men in whom the love of fierce fighting was born were stirred to quarrel among themselves. [9]
It needed all the tact of both Mr. Devlin and Roscoe to keep the places from open fighting. [11]
One day when the sun was fighting hard to make a pathway of light in front of Gaspard's hut, Pierre rounded a corner of the cliff and fronted Gaspard as he sat there, his eyes idling gloomily with the sea. [11]
But he measured the six feet and more of Austen Vane with his eye, and in spite of himself experienced the compelled admiration of one fighting man for another. [9]
Now, make ready the ship for fighting. [11]
But of late the rumor had grown persistently that Nollichucky Jack was now a kind of fugitive, and that he had passed the summer pleasantly enough fighting Indians in the vicinity of Nick-a-jack Cave. [9]
They burst from the palm-trees and rushed down to the banks with cries of rage, murder, and death; for now they saw him fighting for his life. [11]
In spite of the misery the news had brought, the thought that his father, too, who was fighting Jethro Bass as a righteous man, dealt in mortgages and coerced men to do his will, was overwhelming. [9]
La Hire survived the martyrdom thirteen years; and always fighting, of course, for that was all he enjoyed in life. [5]
And that was the last I saw of this noble man, the true friend of America, who devoted his glorious talents and his life to fighting the corruption that was rotting the greatness of England. [9]
Regular fighting eyes, the kind that get inside of a man and turn the light on. [9]
He had promised the Kentucky settlers, fighting for their lives in their blockhouses, that he would come back again. [9]
For a bribe the jailer had furnished liquor to some of the prisoners; singing of ribald songs, fighting, shouting, and carousing was the natural consequence. [5]
When I reached the hollow there were the two of them fighting with a man in the water, the ice jangling as they shifted their feet. [9]
They then had the habit of assembling very early in the spring at particular spots, where they could be seen in flocks, chattering, sometimes fighting, bustling and flying about the trees. [1]
The fighting and the gold as you and the devil agree! [11]
We lived beyond the gate, and it was not to be expected that fighting would break out in our neighbourhood; but back of our gardens, in the vicinity of the Potsdam railway station, the beating of drums was heard. [10]
Bob looked into the flames and waited, and Cynthia stood in the entry fighting this second great battle which had come upon her while her forces were still spent with that other one. [9]
They fought all the fighting that was done, they shed and spilt all the blood that was spilt, in securing to us the invaluable liberties which are incorporated in the Declaration of Independence; but they were not Americans. [5]
The struggles of the fighting colony could have brought her little but pain. [4]

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