All 3 Uses of
strife
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- The guests were still at table, and the heated and energetic conversation that prevailed betrayed the violent and vindictive passions that then agitated each dweller of the South, where unhappily, for five centuries religious strife had long given increased bitterness to the violence of party feeling.†
Chpt 5-6
- And remember, moreover, that it is often he who comes off victorious from the strife, absolved of all crime in the eyes of the world.†
Chpt 35-36 *
- The strife had fairly begun, and the recollection of what they had seen half an hour before was gradually effaced from the young men's minds, so much were they occupied by the gay and glittering procession they now beheld.†
Chpt 35-36
Definition:
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(strife) violent conflict or angry disagreement