Both Uses of
strife
in
Hard Times
- In this strife I have almost repulsed and crushed my better angel into a demon.†
Chpt 2.12 *
- 'When I was irrevocably married, there rose up into rebellion against the tie, the old strife, made fiercer by all those causes of disparity which arise out of our two individual natures, and which no general laws shall ever rule or state for me, father, until they shall be able to direct the anatomist where to strike his knife into the secrets of my soul.'†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
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(strife) violent conflict or angry disagreement