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Rivalry Robbery (See THIEVERY.) Rudeness (See COARSENESS.) Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane bully and show-off compete for Katrina’s hand. [Am. Lit.: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow] bitter feud between these two houses leads to tragedy. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] rivals for hand of Cressida. [Br. Lit.: Troilus and Cressida] struggled even in mother’s womb. [O.T.: Genesis 25:22] brothers battle for Theban throne. [Gk. Lit.: Seven Against Thebes] t stuffed animals eat each other up. [Am. Lit.: “The Duel” in Hollowell] perennial medieval Italian feuding political factions. [Ital. Hist.: Plumb, 42–43] 19th-century mountain families carried on endless feud in southern U.S. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 942] teenage gangs fight for supremacy amid the New York tenements. [Am. Lit. and Cinema: West Side Story] contentious felines fight to the death. [Nurs. Rhyme: Mother Goose] the perennial Scottish border feud; recounted in famous ballad “Chevy Chase.” [Scot. Hist.: Payton, 141]
fought in womb; contended for father’s realm. [Gk. Myth.: Gaster, 164] Christian and Saracen leaders part friends after Crusade. [Br. Lit.: The Talisman] champions of the Tartars and Persians, respectively, engage in mortal combat, unaware that one is the other’s son. [Br. Poetry: Arnold Sohrab and Rustum in Magill III, 1002] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The rivalry between them was soon apparent; it was entirely good natured on Gilbert's side; but it is much to be feared that the same thing cannot be said of Anne, who had certainly an unpraiseworthy tenacity for holding grudges. Paul and Lloyd seemed born to rivalry with each other, and I to be peacemaker between them. As the Mackinaw Company still continued its rivalry, and as the fur trade would not advantageously admit of competition, he made a new arrangement in 1811, by which, in conjunction with certain partners of the Northwest Company, and other persons engaged in the fur trade, he bought out the Mackinaw Company, and merged that and the American Fur Company into a new association, to be called the "Southwest Company. |
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