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  • Romulus and Remus metaphorically mean that Romans were commonly descended, and were given to fraticidal conflict.

    When anti-reason inspires terrorism - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • Reporters go to jail (at least until they can score a book deal) and then the fraticidal elements at NSA and CIA get frogmarched out the door for some time at Marion. and still Karl Rove sits at the the right hand of Chimpy Bushitlerburton. bet there all glad they pushed for the Plame investigation.

    Misunderestiquote « BuzzMachine 2005

  • She stirred up this fraticidal battle by publicly endorsing Murtha, but there's more of her support for Murtha than Iraq.

    CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2006 2006

  • Perhaps -- and unfortunately not perhaps -- these weapons which once were sent out to the revolution and for the defense of the Algerian people during a moment of beautiful solidarity have been employed during an inglorious moment in a fraticidal action against the Algerian Government and people.

    DELEGATES TO 9TH WORLD YOUTH AND STUDENT FESTIVA 1965

  • He believes in a frantic fraticidal war perpetually waged by Christian against Christian in Jerusalem.

    The New Jerusalem 1905

  • Even they dared not to affirm to the people of England, that a wife who had committed incest with her husband's brother, ought on her death to be buried in the same tomb with her fraticidal [Transcriber's note: sic] paramour, and that tomb to be annually worshipped by the youths and virgins of their country.

    Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

  • They were, however, all futile, and the proclamation of President Lincoln calling for troops from Virginia, speedily determined her lot with her Southern sisters, peopled by her own offspring, and Mr. Robertson, ever a dutiful son, was henceforth zealously active in all measures of sustenance and defense, in the lamentable fraticidal strife which ensued.

    Virginia and Virginians 1888

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