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Definition of Strifes
1. strife [n] - See also: strife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strifes
Literary usage of Strifes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Epochs of Church History by Lucius Waterman, John Fulton (1898)
"THEEE INTERIOR strifes : THE PASCHAL QUESTION ; MONTANISM ... We must now give
attention to three interior strifes which disturbed the Church's peace in the ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... His pride, and lays his strifes and follies Oh, from these sterner aspects of
thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the by? wrath Of the mad ..."
3. Manual of United States History from 1492 to 1850 by Samuel Eliot (1873)
"preceding Washington had been able to suppress, because he Termina- ^ was the
natural termination of the preceding tion of strifes, continued now for twenty ..."
4. Four Years with the Army of the Potomac by Régis de Trobriand (1888)
"... Services rendered — The commission transports—Herculean labors— strifes — The
loads of sick humanity — Horrible realities — The miracles of charity. ..."
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