combats

If this fighting was a single act, there would be no necessity for any further subdivision, but the fight is composed of a greater or less number of single acts, complete in themselves, which we call combats, as we have shown in the first chapter of the first book, and which form new units.

On War — Volume 1 Carl von Clausewitz 1805

Next thing you know, you'll have David Davis being interviewed in combats and a T shirt.

Tieing up the Modernisers 2005

I took part myself in combats near Leningrad and witnessed the ruins of cities and homes.

Idols and Dangers of Our Complex World 1983

A series of bloody and undecisive combats is nothing more than an anticipation of what would have been effected in a few years by the course of nature; but I shall briefly prosecute the conquests of the two emperors from the hills of Cappadocia to the desert of Bagdad.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Xander gives me hit points and mojo points after I win combats.

July 15th, 2004 2004

“Is it not true,” said the king of Burgundy to the bishop, “that the event of national wars, and private combats, is directed by the judgment of

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Fortunately the most distinctive feature of the combats was the noise, but the Baez family suffered, two of the president's brothers being killed in the war.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

German officers, or even to the broadsword combats that are conventional among the German students.

The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian 1905

British naval history is rich in the records of what may be called great sea-duels -- combats, that is, of single ship against single ship, waged often with extraordinary fierceness and daring.

Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes 1886

It's the primitive action of an appeal to the god of combats, that is exploded in these days.

Rhoda Fleming — Complete George Meredith 1868