Rivalry
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Rivalry
Robbery (See THIEVERY.)
Rudeness (See COARSENESS.)
Brom Bones and Ichabod Cranebully 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]
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