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

The play went into rehearsal, and the author had a passage of arms with Mademoiselle Mars, who took the part of Doña Sol.

From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by Smith, G. Barnett

Her passage of arms with des Ageaux had not tended to soften her feelings.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

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

Then she sank into a low chair and sobbed unrestrainedly—it may be that the reaction of the nervous system after her late passage of arms had something to do with the breakdown.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram