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  • I did not weep; but I knelt down, and, with a full heart, thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to her's or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.

    Chapter 5 2010

  • Air power can significantly destroy an adversary's strength, making follow-on operations far easier.

    Air Power: Lessons from Libya Michael Auslin 2011

  • I did not weep; but I knelt down, and, with a full heart, thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.

    Chapter 24 2010

  • Roosevelt, reading his adversary's speech to the Reichstag, was unimpressed.

    Nigel Hamilton: Down the Toilet Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • But once you threaten your adversary's life or safety, you have become un-American.

    Strickland: 'I feel very secure here in Ohio' 2010

  • Joachim Fest writes that Abwehr Chief Wilhelm Canaris was able to resist Heydrich by obtaining "documents proving his adversary's Jewish antecedents ..."

    Furies 2009

  • Roosevelt, reading his adversary's speech to the Reichstag, was unimpressed.

    Nigel Hamilton: Down the Toilet Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • DEMS TO FORCE OIL SUBSIDIES VOTES - Once again, Senate Democrats are resorting to the legislative version of taking your adversary's hand, thrusting it at his face and screaming STOP HITTING YOURSELF!

    HUFFPOST HILL - Senate Punk-Off Continues to Escalate Eliot Nelson 2011

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