warring

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Women loved and men went warring -- ere the siege of Troy begun.

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  • The reasons the priest gave for the warring were even more astonishing to her. —  Garwood, Julie - Saving Grace
  • After 18 months of format warring, and all the marketing dollars and price slashing that entailed, Blu-ray finally gained industry consensus at the beginning of last year, just in time for the term "credit default swap" to go zeitgeist.
  • On the other hand, Mohamed is described by his official biographers as a warring, thieving, misogynist who personally beheaded 600 to 900 Jews in one afternoon. —  Brain Blogger
  • Long ago when he came finally home from warring, a woman married him … and slept with him, perhaps to take the war out of him … as a good woman will often do for a soldier who's been burnt near to the ground by all he's lived and seen. —  The Moderate Voice
  • The woman gave Yakup in barter for some of his perseverations on warring, six living children …. who in turn gave him 50 living grandchildren. —  The Moderate Voice
 

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