seat of war
Example Sentences
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Then I asked him for the latest news from the seat of war.
From The Clammer and the Submarine by Hopkins, William John
He asked for a surgeon to extract it, and seemed impatient to return to the seat of war.
From The Jew by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
My dear Margaret is still in Quebec, with her lovely little Julia, as Upper Canada is still the seat of war.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
What between exposure, wounds, swamp fever, famine, and imprisonment, personal beauty stands but a poor chance at the seat of war.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
England, indeed, was itself never the seat of war, and its commerce was increased by the war in some directions as much as it was diminished by it in others.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
