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Absence; who truly perform'd the part of a good Man in all things within his power: The Army was encamp'd far off, and Correspondence difficult, which was a perpetual Affliction to her; many Battels and Skirmishes were fought, without any News from him: At last, some of his own Regiment, sent her word that he was kill'd.

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Absence; who truly perform'd the part of a good Man in all things within his power: The Army was encamp'd far off, and Correspondence difficult, which was a perpetual Affliction to her; many Battels and Skirmishes were fought, without any News from him: At last, some of his own Regiment, sent her word that he was kill'd.

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Riots, Mutinies, Rebellions, Battels, &c. where thousands are slain; nay, we make Slaughter a Study, and War an Art. Are we not then more irrational than Brutes, who endeavour to preserve their own kind, and protect their own Species?

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Riots, Mutinies, Rebellions, Battels, &c. where thousands are slain; nay, we make Slaughter a Study, and War an Art. Are we not then more irrational than Brutes, who endeavour to preserve their own kind, and protect their own Species?

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Battel for Sharpning the Spurs, and clipping of the neck feathers, half a Ginny; and then when the Battels ended, he brings into the reckoning half a Crown _extra_ for Brandy, Salve, and cherishing and chafing it by the fire, &c.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

When Scanderbeg Prince of Epirus was dead, the Turks, who had but too often felt the Force of his Arm in the Battels he had won from them, imagined that by wearing a piece of his Bones near their Heart, they should be animated with a Vigour and Force like to that which inspired him when living.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

Those who look into Homer, are surprized to find his Battels still rising one above another, and improving in Horrour, to the Conclusion of the Iliad.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

Maccabees, who had fought the Battels of the chosen People with so much

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

But when we have won Battels [which [2]] may be described in our own Language, why are our Papers filled with so many unintelligible

The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

Author, so ought we highly to applaud his Curiosity and Genius, who all along the course of this Voyage, not onely fought with his Sword in the most desperate Engagements and Battels of the Bucaniers against the Spaniards, but with his Pen gave us a true account of those

Bucaniers of America: 1685