strave

• “So don't complain when your are in the same postion you are now, simply because you would rather strave than vote for a black canidate.”

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• “So the two hosts drew apart, whilst every brave staggered like a drunken knave, for that with so much cut and thrust they strave; and the place was choked with the slain; fell were the wounds and the hurt knew not by whom they fell.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Regularly once a year, during the three peaceful months when war and even blood revenge were held sacrilegious, the tribes met at Ukádh (Ocaz) and other fairsteads, where they held high festival and the bards strave in song and prided themselves upon doing honour to women and to the successful warriors of their tribe.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Said she, ‘I am she who was on such a mountain, where the black dragon strave with me and would have forced my honour, but thou slewest him.’”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “He strave at the stone till he pulled it from its place, when there appeared beneath it a souterrain with a stair.”

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• “Then she strave to solace me with soft sweet speech, but I was drowned in the deeps of passion, fearing even in union the pangs of disunion, for excess of longing and ecstasy of passion; and I bethought me of the lowe of absence and estrangement and repeated these two couplets,”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “But the Wolf returned them no answer and redoubled in his hardness of heart and when they strave to turn him from his purpose he would not be turned.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Hasan fared with her, drowned in the sea of solicitude and reciting verses like those above, whilst she strave to comfort him and exhorted him to patience; but he awoke not from his tristesse and heeded not her exhortations.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “But rose the crescent moon and strave its best to show”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the merchant awoke, he strave with his yearnings till morning when he said to himself, “There is no help but that I go this day to some one who will expound to me this vision.””

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