Both Uses of
contend
in
The House of Mirth
- Her maid had kindled a little fire on the hearth, and it contended cheerfully with the sunlight which slanted across the moss-green carpet and caressed the curved sides of an old marquetry desk.†
Chpt 1.4
- He glanced at the dirty and unpropitious corner on which they stood, with the shriek of the "elevated" and the tumult of trams and waggons contending hideously in their ears.†
Chpt 2.10 *
Definition:
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(contend as in: She contended that...) to claim that something is true