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At any rate why could not women be kept out of it and let men adjust their quarrel with the stern arbitrament of sword and gun!

It was inevitable that Carver should undervalue moral suasion; a military man, he recognized only the arbitrament of brute force.

I hope, in Heaven's name, they will not be submitted to the arbitrament of battle.

The right interpretation of a state-paper, however venerable, would not have been a question worthy of such terrible arbitrament.

All her pistol practice was with a view to call Furlong to the "last arbitrament" for this slight to her house.