battle-strife

And in the deadly battle-strife had venged their leader well:

The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

On this side all the Trojan and Tyrrhenian host pour in diverse armament, girt with iron even as though the harsh battle-strife

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

And in the deadly battle-strife had venged their leader well;

Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson

And in the deadly battle-strife had venged their leader well;

The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

One of the sad effects of the progress of this terrible war has been to deaden our sympathies, and make us more selfish than we were when the tocsin of the battle-strife first sounded in the land.

THE WOUNDED SOLDIER. 1891

As for the men, they knew him to have faced the balls in bellowing battle-strife; they knew him to have endured privation, not only cold but downright want of food and drink -- an almost unimaginable horror to these brave daily feasters; so they could not quite look on him in contempt; but his want of sense was offensive, and still more so his submission to a scourging by a woman.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

As for the men, they knew him to have faced the balls in bellowing battle-strife; they knew him to have endured privation, not only cold but downright want of food and drink -- an almost unimaginable horror to these brave daily feasters; so they could not quite look on him in contempt; but his want of sense was offensive, and still more so his submission to a scourging by a woman.

Case of General Ople George Meredith 1868

As for the men, they knew him to have faced the balls in bellowing battle-strife; they knew him to have endured privation, not only cold but downright want of food and drink -- an almost unimaginable horror to these brave daily feasters; so they could not quite look on him in contempt; but his want of sense was offensive, and still more so his submission to a scourging by a woman.

Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

As soon as thou hast yoked the strong oxen, and with thy might and thy prowess hast ploughed all the stubborn fallow, and now along the furrows the Giants are springing up, when the serpent's teeth are sown on the dusky clods, if thou markest them uprising in throngs from the fallow, cast unseen among them a massy stone; and they over it, like ravening hounds over their food, will slay one another; and do thou thyself hasten to rush to the battle-strife, and the fleece thereupon thou shalt bear far away from

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius