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Definition of Refought
1. refight [v] - See also: refight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refought
Literary usage of Refought
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Motion Picture Education by Ernest Alfred Dench (1917)
"IV BATTLES THAT ARE refought FOR THE FILM I JOW dearly the average film producer * *
loves reproducing battles! All the thrills he wants are readily made, ..."
2. A History of Wayne County in the World War and in the Wars of the Past by Edward Harry Hauenstein (1919)
"It was here that probably the greatest battle of the war had been fought, refought,
and refought, until right triumphed over brutal might, and, ..."
3. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"... battle once fought in heaven is refought on the earth. So it is, so hath it
ever been, and so must it ever be, when the claims of justice and mercy make ..."
4. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1857)
"It is just here, that lions spring up in the path of duty, and the battle once
fought, in heaven is refought on the earth. So it is, so hath it ever been, ..."
5. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"It was a drawn battle, and corps-law requires that drawn battles shall be refought
as soon as the adversaries are well of their hurts. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1896)
"In memory be refought the battles of his prime, and, remembering how the "flame
of war" had burned round him from his fifteenth year, marvelled that he had ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1901)
"They refought every battle from that at Lexington to the taking of Cornwall!».
Both knew Hi'iH-ral Washington personally and also Dr. Franklin. ..."
8. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1872)
"Our congratulations and experiences are all over, and our summer campaigns have
been fought and refought by window and dining-table. ..."
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