In addition to being exhibited he was a professional
fighting animal.
It is no good for quakers, or any other body of men, to uplift their voices against
fighting. Human nature is too strong for them, and they don't follow their own precepts.
His long months of culture and refinement shuddered at the sight; then the present was blotted out of his consciousness and the ghosts of the past possessed him, and he was Martin Eden, just returned from sea and
fighting Cheese-Face on the Eighth Street Bridge.
Constantly my thoughts reverted to Dejah Thoris, and I longed for the moment when, the
fighting done, I could fold her in my arms, and hear once more the words of love which had been denied me for so many years.
It was small and of no use in
fighting. Now it came close to the Revenge and the Captain asked Sir Richard what he should do, and "Sir Richard bid him save himself, and leave him to his fortune." So the gallant Revenge was left to fight alone.
If
fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if
fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.
Possibly the most bloodthirsty and malignant of all the mercenaries that ever served the Iron Heel, he was informed by the
Fighting Groups that they had tried him, found him guilty, and condemned him to death--and this, after three warnings for him to cease from his ferocious treatment of the proletariat.
Attend, henceforth, to your own delightful matrimonial duties, and leave all this
fighting to Mars and to Minerva."
For my part, I was
fighting as I had fought a thousand times before--now sidestepping a wicked thrust, now stepping quickly in to let my sword's point drink deep in a foeman's heart, before it buried itself in the throat of his companion.
These aspects of aerial
fighting took the world by surprise.
"If we were to see you
fighting, I can assure you that we would make no effort to prevent you.
It called the players for the first game, and simultaneously there fluttered to the peaks of a thousand staffs on tower and battlement and the great wall of the stadium the rich, gay pennons of the
fighting chiefs of Manator.