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Sentences starting with war

War and fighting were their portion--as they ate, as they drank and slept. [11]
War does not wait even for me," she exclaimed. [11]
War is a very old story, but it is a new one to this generation of Americans. [6]
War has taught us, as nothing else could, what we can be and are. [6]
War was at that time threatening between Spain and our country, and Lieutenant Clayton had been sent to Europe on military business. [5]
War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be. [6]
War is my profession, but his business is to reign and not to command armies! [2]
War was their pastime--I use the word advisedly. [5]
War in defense of national life is not immoral, and war in defense of independence is an inevitable part of the discipline of nations. [7]
War waits for no one--not even for you," he added, with more sarcasm than he intended. [11]

Sentences ending with war

Can you get your rights now, without obstructing the war? [9]
Your father, as you tell me, is at the war. [10]
There, every man you meet was in the war; and every lady you meet saw the war. [5]
Five simple, happy years--then war. [9]
Either way it would be the victory and defeat following war. [7]
It was not worth a swing of the executioner's axe in these times of war. [9]
Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the engagement and his reception by the Minister of War. [2]
In our struggles with the porter to obtain the little items of soap, water, and towels, we were convinced that we had arrived too late, and that for perfect satisfaction we should have been here before the war. [4]
He satiated himself with all the delights of war. [4]
Balashev told him why he considered Napoleon to be the originator of the war. [2]

Short sentences using war

It did mean war. [9]
That ended the war. [5]
I believe in war. [11]
Such is modern war! [9]
A council of war! [5]
The theater of war! [2]
You call that war! [11]
All about the war! [11]
Has a good war record. [6]
He knows what war is. [5]

Sentences containing war two or more times

Hospitality is sacred; you may not be a prisoner of war, for there is no war between our countries. [11]
Now I wish you just to consider that he was right about that, and that he had his reasons for saying that England did not look upon our Revolution as a foreign war, but as a civil war fought by Englishmen. [5]
Not only where you are--at the heart of affairs and of the world--is the talk all of war, even here amid fieldwork and the calm of nature--which townsfolk consider characteristic of the country--rumors of war are heard and painfully felt. [2]
As to the Whig men who have participated in the war, so far as they have spoken in my hearing they do not hesitate to denounce as unjust the President's conduct in the beginning of the war. [7]
The declaration that we have always opposed the war is true or false, according as one may understand the term "oppose the war. [7]
My first thought was, that war was declared; but, as I should never pay much attention to war declared at that time in the morning, I went to sleep again. [4]
And when there was a war, like this one, it would be war! [2]
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. [7]
The cry of war rang along the cliff tops; and war would take Philip from her. [11]
The aim of war is murder; the methods of war are spying, treachery, and their encouragement, the ruin of a country's inhabitants, robbing them or stealing to provision the army, and fraud and falsehood termed military craft. [2]

More example sentences with the word war in them

But we know your strength; we know that the small remnant of our nation, which war and pestilence have spared, cannot resist your vast and well-armed hosts. [10]
I transmit for your consideration a communication from the Secretary of War, accompanied by one from the Provost-Marshal General to him, both relating to the subject above mentioned. [7]
Let me ask you to conduct yourself as a prisoner of war on parole. [11]
All through it you seem to see the pomps of war and hear the rumbling of the drums. [5]
When I telegraphed you on the 6th, saying you had over 100,000 with you, I had just obtained from the Secretary of War a statement, taken as he said from your own returns, making 108,000 then with you and en route to you. [7]
She had, as yet, been none too successful in the war with France. [11]
The day before yesterday the Elector John Frederick of Saxony and the Landgrave Philip of Hesse had been banned, and with this the war began. [10]
Idt wass a year or dwo pefore the war proke oudt, anyway. [8]
The proposed emancipation would shorten the war, perpetuate peace, insure this increase of population, and proportionately the wealth of the country. [7]
The wordy war would not have ended so quickly, however, had not restlessness and alarm taken possession of the crowd. [10]
The Australasian Governor would not be so restless, perhaps, if he had a war, or a veto, or something like that to call for his reserve-energies, but he hasn't. [5]
Between ourselves, he would like to be appointed regent of Persia while the king is away at the Massagetan war, and would therefore give a great deal to connect himself by marriage in some way or other with the Archemenidae. [10]
And indeed she would have done so when war was declared and Philip received his new command, but that she had wished the announcement to come from him. [11]
Perhaps the preacher would have a sermon against war, and the preacher should see how soldierlike he would take this attack on him. [4]
Danger--oh yes, there would be danger, but Heaven would be good to her; Philip should go safe through storm and war, and some day great honours would be done him. [11]
It would be worth a year of battles to abolish this delusion, though the great sponge of war that wiped it out were moistened with the best blood of the land. [6]
They're willing to work twelve hours on end, for the war, they say, but they'd want to be consulted. [9]
As the month wore on, and the time drew near for him to go back to the war, a state that was not quite estrangement, and yet something very like it, set in. [9]
The warm confidence with which Mary, the widow of the King of Hungary, who fell in the Turkish war, gazed into Quijada's finely modelled, slightly bronzed countenance proved that she knew how to estimate his worth aright. [10]
Do you remain with the little one; my mother is at work, and I must go with the prisoners of war to Harmontis. [10]
Everyone was dissatisfied with the general course of affairs in the Russian army, but no one anticipated any danger of invasion of the Russian provinces, and no one thought the war would extend farther than the western, the Polish, provinces. [2]
Ealer was satisfied with that, and the war broke loose. [5]
Incidentally, in common with his neighbours, he had taken no interest in the war, which had seemed as remote to him as though he had lived in North Dakota. [9]
Rumours of war with France had set his blood dancing a little, but for him most things were robbed of half their pleasure because they did not come at once. [11]
He went out with a company from Hawkeye to the war, and was not wanting in courage, but he would have been a better soldier if he had been less engaged in contrivances for circumventing the enemy by strategy unknown to the books. [5]
I even have wished that I, half peasant, had been--" "If only you had been all peasant, this war, this misery of mine, had never been," she interrupted. [11]
But if you wish war, persist in trying to grind the spirit from a people who have in them the pride of your own ancestors. [9]
I do not wish to utilize the fortunes of war to humiliate an honored monarch. [2]
Free as the wind and clouds, I followed the same road over which I had ridden with Leonhard, for in your country a war after my own heart was going on, and my future fortune was to be based upon my sword. [10]
That is His will, and if He requires you to serve Him, you must follow us and, in case of war, command the men of our people. [10]
A big war will temporarily shut up the Suez Canal some day and the English ships will have to go to India around the Cape of Good Hope again; then England will have to have Bourbon and will take it. [5]
Mr. Brice, people will tell you that the war will be over in ninety days. [9]
But the war will change that, is already changing it. [9]
Hundreds of families whose men were in the army came to be within touch of the War Office and Aldershot, and the capital of the Empire was overrun by intriguers, harmless and otherwise. [11]
Whether our citizens, whose blood was shed, as in his message declared, were or were not, at that time, armed officers and soldiers, sent into that settlement by the military order of the President, through the Secretary of War. [7]
He regarded the whole business of the war not with his intelligence or his reason but by something else. [2]
The bravest men, who were always willing to come to the front in war, and who freely risked their lives for others, would on an average perish in larger numbers than other men. [1]
Many a general who has fought a desperate and victorious fight after a long campaign, and amid all the anxieties and miseries of war, has failed to follow up his advantage, from a sudden lesion of the power for action in him. [11]
In short, those who had apparently done their utmost to oppose democracy at home were most insistent that we should embark upon a war for democracy across the seas. [9]
Poor soldier he who did not raise his sword, And, touching with his lips the hilt-cross, swear In war or peace the livery to wear Of one that blessed him with her queenly word. [11]
Powhatan kept the whites who were with him to instruct the Indians in the art of war. [4]
The war in which we are engaged is for no meanly ambitious or unworthy purpose. [6]
The shortsightedness with which the Protestants permitted the Emperor to remain so long in Ratisbon unmolested, and gather troops and munitions of war, Gombert had heard termed actually incomprehensible. [10]
The great war which has since devastated the world gives to this incident an added interest. [5]
For the quarrel which came near being a civil war, which convulsed the state, and cost Barneveld his head, had its origin in a difference on certain points, and more especially on a single point, of religious doctrine. [6]
It was doubtful whether those whom they expected would return that night, and the Roman soldiers who were loyal to Antony had gone with him to the war. [10]
I was present when you mounted your guns and manned your fleets for the war of 1812--when the South fired upon Sumter--when Richmond fell--when the President's life was taken. [5]
We know now what War means, and we cannot look its dull, dead ghastliness in the face unless we feel that there is some great and noble principle behind it. [6]
You can fancy what universal joy the idea of a war with Egypt excited. [10]
We all know what the war fever is in our young men,--what a devouring passion it becomes in those whom it assails. [6]
He saw that what he was feeling was felt by all the men about him experienced in the art of war. [2]
Look at what we've worked out in large scale production and distribution in this war! [9]
Gun-packin' in the West since the Civil War has growed into a kind of moral law. [13]
War, as it were, was declared between them, and he vowed to himself, with fire in his eyes, that he would not shirk it! [10]
Here, as it were, round the bent and broken sides of a bowl, war raged, and the centre was like some caldron out of which imps of ships sprang and sailed to hand up fires of hell to the battalions on the ledges. [11]
Six English vessels were suddenly opposed by a Spanish convoy of 53 ships of war. [4]
This, if it were sound in itself, is waging destructive war with the former position; for if Mr. Clay's bill impoverishes the treasury too much, what shall be said of one that impoverishes it still more? [7]
But probably they were rather private citizens on their way to some festival celebrating the victory; for every one now believed in a great battle and a successful issue of the war. [10]
Grant and Sherman were living there before the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln was an unknown lawyer in the neighboring state of Illinois. [9]
Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city which have been pointed out as fitting descriptions in that novel. [9]
The traders, who were hotly arguing over Italian politics and the future war with Turkey, were silent. [10]
Councils of war were held over the advisability of seizing Mr. Carvel's house at Glencoe, but proof was lacking until one rainy night in June a captain and ten men spurred up the drive and swung into a big circle around the house. [9]
Ships of war were continually moving to and fro, and from the Serpent Island they witnessed constantly, often by starlight, the drilling of the oarsmen and of whole squadrons upon the open sea. [10]
When his footsteps were among us there was peace; War entered not the village, nor the call of war: Now our homes are as those that have no roofs. [11]
Your figure is well-suited to the trade of war, and you surely are not wanting in courage. [10]
At first they welcomed the whites, and were eager to trade with them--particularly for muskets; for their pastime was internecine war, and they greatly preferred the white man's weapons to their own. [5]
I served two weeks in the beginning of our Civil War, and during all that tune commanded a battery of infantry composed of twelve men. [5]
In the first week of July the decisive battle of Gettysburg turned the tide of war, and the fall of Vicksburg made the great river free from its source to the Gulf. [7]
And with it we will carry the war into Hamilton's country. [9]
When, for instance, we say that Napoleon ordered armies to go to war, we combine in one simultaneous expression a whole series of consecutive commands dependent one on another. [2]
In this building we saw many interesting relics of the war. [5]
In due time we passed Grand Gulf and Rodney, of war fame, and reached Natchez, the last of the beautiful hill-cities--for Baton Rouge, yet to come, is not on a hill, but only on high ground. [5]
To be sure, we broke many a piece of bread together in war and peace in the same service. [10]
On the 7th, Washington called a council of war, and anxiously inquired what should be done. [4]
And yet this was the President who had conducted the war, whose generals had conquered the Confederacy. [9]
On either side was that soft plumbless diffusion, and ahead the secret of untravelled wilds and the fortunes of war. [11]
Across the paper was scrawled in pencil, without capital letters, misspelled, and without punctuation: "Unsoundly constructed because resembles an imitation of the French military code and from the Articles of War needlessly deviating. [2]
To France--yes, that was it, to the war of the Vendee, to join Detricand. [11]
Our national aim was ever consistent with the ideal of William James, to advance democracy and put an end to the evil of war. [9]
His own guilt was causing him great mental trouble and, in fact, notwithstanding the arduous labour imposed upon him by the war, the most melancholy mood again took possession of him. [10]
You remember I was an old Whig, and whenever the Democratic party tried to get me to vote that the war had been righteously begun by the President, I would not do it. [7]
I thought he was able to get along alone, now, since he was on the war path. [5]
The French Revolution was a struggle for political freedom; the underlying issue of the present war is economic freedom--without which political freedom is of no account. [9]
In short, he was a product of the period since the civil war closed, that great upheaval of patriotic feeling and sacrifice, which ended in so much expansion and so many opportunities. [4]
To him it was a gigantic break from a green pasture into a red field of war. [11]
The old captain was a flaming son of Mars, whose nose militia, war, general training, and New England rum had painted with the color of glory and disaster. [4]
It was the war, you see. [5]
The Secretary of War, you know, holds a pretty tight rein on the press, so that they shall not tell more than they ought to; and I 'm afraid that if I blab too much, he might draw a tight rein on me. [7]
In the French war, when all the rest of us Royal Americans were squabbling with his Majesty's officers out of England, and cursing them at mess, they could never be got to fight with Jack, tho' he gave them ample provocation. [9]
Two fell in war, the third was killed by the machinery while at his work. [10]
If we have war, Richard, you will not be content to remain at home, nor would I wish it. [9]
A man of war, he knows the value of peas. [4]
Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, and then stepped out again, permanently. [5]
In this extraordinary war, extraordinary developments have manifested themselves, such as have not been seen in former wars; and among these manifestations nothing has been more remarkable than these fairs for the relief of suffering soldiers and their families. [7]
The council of war, at which Prince Andrew had not been able to express his opinion as he had hoped to, left on him a vague and uneasy impression. [2]
There isn't any war, and there isn't any veto in his hands. [5]
We are for war, and the sword should be out of the belt. [11]
Kamehameha went to war, and in the course of ten years he whipped out all the other kings and made himself master of every one of the nine or ten islands that form the group. [5]
We accepted this war, and did not begin it. [7]
They were at war with the Tockwoghes. [4]

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