join battle with
Example Sentences
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To the hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil.
From Time Magazine Archive
He yearned with a great yearning for the district attorney and Rafe Tuckleton to join battle with him.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
And thus after conquering the world man's very structure compels him to join battle with himself.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
It seemed madness to join battle with such a disproportion of numbers.
From Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles
Sagredus: Let us, then, join battle with those antagonistic facts.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
