单词 | at a strife |
释义 | > as lemmasat a strife b. at strife: at variance. †Also, at a strife. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase] in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275 in strife1398 at traversc1448 at issue1474 at a strife1488 at variancea1535 at square1545 at (a) jar1552 at (or to) daggers' drawing1556 at (a) mutiny1567 in (a) mutiny1567 at wrig-wrag1599 at daggers drawn1668 at (or at the, on the) outs1824 loggerhead1831 at daggers' points1857 at swords' points1890 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) i. l. 237 The ȝong captane has fallyn with me at stryff. ?1507 Ballad of Kynd Kittok in W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen sig. b.ivv Scho..held sanct petir at stryf. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 25 Romulus & Remus..fell sodainely at a strife together about the place where the cittie should be builded. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) i. ii. 4 Why how now Sonnes, and Brother, at a strife ? View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love v. i. 52 My lab'ring thoughts are with themselves at strife. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. i. 141 If my judgment, with itself at strife, Should contradict my general course of life. 1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 405 The crown of England, always at strife, and often at open war, with its own barons. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 35 Why are right and wrong at strife? < as lemmas |
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