Both Uses of
strife
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- He stood in the porch and watched the laggard hurry towards the scrappy field where sharp voices were in strife.†
Chpt 2 *
- …to the women's apartment to assist at the prescribed ceremony of the afterbirth in the presence of the secretary of state for domestic affairs and the members of the privy council, silent in unanimous exhaustion and approbation the delegates, chafing under the length and solemnity of their vigil and hoping that the joyful occurrence would palliate a licence which the simultaneous absence of abigail and obstetrician rendered the easier, broke out at once into a strife of tongues.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(strife) violent conflict or angry disagreement