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A beard the meetest racing ground where gnats and lice contend,
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For one bright prize the matchless chiefs contend,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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With wrestling and turnings and twists in the battle of words to contend,
The Frogs 2000
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With wrestling and turnings and twists in the battle of words to contend,
The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Side by side, New York and Maine for honors did contend,
The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster Henry Hill Goodell
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How two great bands, [13] with cruell blowes contend,
Davids Hainous Sinne, Heartie Repentance, Heavie Punishment. 1608-1661 1869
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Where the sunbeams of hope with the tempest contend,
Enthusiasm and Other Poems Susanna Moodie 1844
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May shore with shore -- may wave with wave contend,
The Fourth Book of Virgil's Aeneid and the Ninth Book of Voltaire's Henriad 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1736
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For one bright prize the matchless chiefs contend,
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1716
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Yours in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, for which faith we desire to contend,
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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