All 5 Uses of
dispute
in
The War of the Worlds
- They said that they did not know who had authorised the movements of the troops; their idea was that a dispute had arisen at the Horse Guards.†
Chpt 1.9
- And amid the various cries one heard disputes, reproaches, groans of weariness and fatigue; the voices of most of them were hoarse and weak.†
Chpt 1.16
- A young Martian, there can now be no dispute, was really born upon earth during the war, and it was found attached to its parent, partially budded off, just as young lilybulbs bud off, or like the young animals in the fresh-water polyp.†
Chpt 2.2
- There is many a true word written in jest, and here in the Martians we have beyond dispute the actual accomplishment of such a suppression of the animal side of the organism by the intelligence.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- Now I stood on a mound of smashed brickwork, clay, and gravel, over which spread a multitude of red cactus-shaped plants, knee-high, without a solitary terrestrial growth to dispute their footing.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(dispute as in: their border dispute) disagreement, argument, or conflict