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Examples
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If they can get along in the work-force they can get along on the battle-field.
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And it really does give you an awesome feel of being in a battle-field and also the fact you're able to scope your enemies way better.
Is The First-Person The Most-Person? SVGL 2009
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The unhappy youth is left on the battle-field but not to die.
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Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.
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Please you tea-baggers are weak off the battle-field.
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A bunch of youth workers and former paratroopers have put their heads together and come up with a plan to make history lessons more groovy by embroiling the kids in a simulation of the battle of Arnhem in the second world war, from boot camp to the battle-field.
Tonight's TV highlights John Robinson 2010
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As soon as possible after the Confederate retreat I went over the battle-field to collect such of my wounded as had not been carried off to the South and to bury my dead.
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The lost ground being thus regained, and the French having been beaten on their right, it was not long before word came that Bazaine's army was falling back to Metz, leaving the entire battle-field in possession of the Germans.
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Foreman misses nothing, creating a panorama of successive clashes, always with an eye for what General Sherman caustically referred to as "the British mark on every battle-field".
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman – review Jay Parini 2010
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Reaction to the sudden dominance of machine gunnery on the battle-field was mixed.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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