passage of arms

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Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington A disputed passage of arms Ronald Reagan's arms control negotiators face an immensely difficult task in trying to push their Soviet counterparts toward an agreement.

From Time Magazine Archive

He realised that in any passage of arms with these youths he must be worsted, as she apparently was oblivious of any harm being done.

From The Undying Past by Sudermann, Hermann

After that preliminary passage of arms, comes the capital argument in the book.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles

Your uncle and I often have a passage of arms together.”

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville

He marvelled, though, in his slow brain, as it wandered round the knotty subject, over the passage of arms betwixt the ladies; their covert menace; the oath the little lad was made to swear.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis