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  • The Blantons were a famous group in Breathitt, and they had a feuding history nearly as illustrious as Papaw's.†   (source)
  • Little things like this had a way of escalating into blood feuds.†   (source)
  • But the Lebey-Williams feud was a mere quibble compared with the cold war that raged between Williams and his next-door neighbors, Lee and Emma Adler.†   (source)
  • Was there a feud?†   (source)
  • Even all the feuding parties have been feuding for so long that they're practically friends.†   (source)
  • All my campaign of self-sabotage had earned me was an unwinnable feud with Shelley and the deep and abiding resentment of my coworkers—who, let's face it, were going to resent me anyway, because no matter how many displays I knocked over or customers I short-changed, one day I was going to inherit a sizable chunk of the company, and they were not.†   (source)
  • Even warring khalasars put aside their feuds and shared meat and mead together when they were in sight of the Mother of Mountains.†   (source)
  • It stirs old memories, awakens the old feuds.†   (source)
  • It was hard for me to listen as they talked about prom, and about how Lacey was feuding with Becca or whatever.†   (source)
  • They were both in the kitchen, watching Family Feud.†   (source)
  • And these were just the well-known feuds.†   (source)
  • The Tribe, although based in the Hills, pulled in dudes from all over South San Gabriel, even from areas east of the Hills like Muscatel Street, Bartlett Street and Earle Avenue which had long-running feuds with Las Lomas.†   (source)
  • On Hebron I arrived just as the Jewish settlers were ending their long feud with the Seneschal Aluit, creatures as fragile as the world's waterless ecology.†   (source)
  • But my ongoing feud with Ambrose added to my reputation more than anything else.†   (source)
  • A part, perhaps, that didn't know about the feuding sides of herself?†   (source)
  • You've got to put aside your old feuds.†   (source)
  • I once got in a fight with another kid right in front of his church, starting a feud between our families that lasted weeks and nearly turned to shooting before Brother Ron got everyone to make peace.†   (source)
  • Knowing that the Americans would bring a suspect in, people were using tips to settle grievances or feuds.†   (source)
  • Precisely because of your stupid little feud.†   (source)
  • The idea of conquest was dying out; it was mostly vengeance and feuding now.†   (source)
  • He also had an ongoing feud with the chairman of the Select Intelligence Committee.†   (source)
  • By the mid—'90s, the Taliban's prime targets in Afghanistan-before I showed up-were the feuding warlords who (a) formed the mujahideen and (b) threw the Soviets out of the country.†   (source)
  • How can I resolve this dilemma without starting a blood feud?†   (source)
  • "The old feud," Yueh muttered.†   (source)
  • Seeking to avoid a blood feud, they repeatedly pressured Zebene to accept a couple of cows for allowing Woineshet to marry Aberew.†   (source)
  • I seed that they wanted to get up a feud.†   (source)
  • He told of an ancient feud between two brothers which split all the world between darkness and light.†   (source)
  • Max read many such stories concerning petty feuds, coveted heirlooms, and bloodstained jewels plucked warm, from an owner's hand.†   (source)
  • The program attracted some of the most obsessive-compulsive women in the Camp, and their (BCD could really come into full flower as they trained the dogs, forming intense bonds with their canine companions and feuding with their human neighbors.†   (source)
  • It was a feud that had been boiling for a long time.†   (source)
  • It takes two people to keep a feud going.†   (source)
  • Of such small moments are great feuds made.†   (source)
  • "I have read Gilbert's first section, of feuds, this evening but I am not a master of it," he recorded October 5, referring to Sir Geoffrey Gilbert's Treatise of Feudal Tenures.†   (source)
  • Just like that, my father went from what he'd been for years—husband of Dr. Victoria West and author of one well-received novel, now more known for his interdepartmental feuds than his long-in-progress follow-up—to a new husband and father-to-be.†   (source)
  • There was even something to look forward to when school started—renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer.†   (source)
  • Badal, revenging blood feuds and defense of zan, zar, and zameen, or family, treasure, and land, are central pillars of Pashtunwali.†   (source)
  • My mother is not an admirer of Mrs. Worthington's, and their feud wasn't helped by your prank at Christmas with Miss Bradshaw.†   (source)
  • Political feuding continued in F and G. We learned of a clash among the ANC, the PAC, and the BCM in the general section.†   (source)
  • It was a tribal feud that Mallos (or Saint Dane) was doing a fine job of fueling.†   (source)
  • Then she looks me straight in the eye, her voice quiet, but firm: "No good ever came of a feud.†   (source)
  • How, out of love for her grandchildren, his grandmother was bound to start a small feud on their hill.†   (source)
  • When things got slow, he'd create a feud.†   (source)
  • For that reason our feud with the Orcs is bitter.†   (source)
  • As female guests, wives are not to be harmed during feuds, raids, or wars, because we are seen as belonging to both our husbands' villages and our natal villages.†   (source)
  • ...Also, they face the same obstacles that norms would.... The feud between our families which had first come into the open over the matter of the great-horses had now been established for years.†   (source)
  • Described what amounts to a blood feud between Sheng and myself.†   (source)
  • There are stories of elopements, unrequited love, family feuds, and exhausting vendettas, which everyone was drawn into, had to be involved with.†   (source)
  • He would have been another victim, a drunk Indian war veteran settling an old feud; and the Army doctors would say that the indications of this end had been there all along, since his release from the mental ward at the Veterans' Hospital in Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • He also promised relief for the husband feuding with his brother-in-law, the son with his father.†   (source)
  • Deadly feuds sometimes spread violence through a whole nation or a large part of it.†   (source)
  • Maybe this was some rivalry, some feud going back months or centuries?†   (source)
  • And for their punishment they would be forced to live together as feuding neighbors for all eternity.†   (source)
  • I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.   (source)
  • Why, nothing—only it's on account of the feud.   (source)
    feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
  • —and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud.   (source)
  • Don't you know what a feud is?   (source)
  • "Well," says Buck, "a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills HIM; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the COUSINS chip in—and by and by everybody's killed off,"   (source)
  • I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times;   (source)
  • What's a feud?   (source)
  • We'll get past the feud, but, until we do, you probably ought to stick to your land.†   (source)
  • When one family fights with another, it's a feud.†   (source)
  • As Eragon left the hall, he pulled Orik aside and asked, "How serious is this feud, really?†   (source)
  • The Warrior's feud with the goddess was older than most civilizations.†   (source)
  • Even if they had, I doubt that any deed would make me as proud as a successful feud.†   (source)
  • Lastly, there was my ongoing feud with Ambrose.†   (source)
  • Dudes had fathers and even grandfathers involved in the feud.†   (source)
  • The old feud had trapped him and these people were part of that poisonous thing.†   (source)
  • Any simmering feuds lurking around here?†   (source)
  • He was only lucky she had not started a blood feud.†   (source)
  • In a New York Times story about the violent feud, two things leap out.†   (source)
  • There must besomething I can do to put their suspicions to rest and bring this feud to an end.†   (source)
  • When a man takes the black he puts his feuds behind him.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, they've been keeping alive the Greek feud with the Romans.†   (source)
  • The Bandaranaike-Ondaatje feud began and was contained within the arena of such visitors' books.†   (source)
  • This isn't about our family feud, Junior.†   (source)
  • Is there blood feud between us, Lord Snow?†   (source)
  • The feud got worse when some trees got cut near the property line.†   (source)
  • However, he'd secretly started the feud.†   (source)
  • No, I can't let personal feuds dictate my actions.†   (source)
  • They done one of my brothers that-a-way in feud times, and throwed him over a bluff.†   (source)
  • Sammy Dias, or so my side of the feud tells it, was a scrounger for complaints.†   (source)
  • We can't estimate how far the violent feuds would spread.†   (source)
  • Discontent with the government would spread the violent feuds.†   (source)
  • The names changed, as did the faces, and I spit on them equally for all the petty feuds, the snipers, the land mines, bombing raids, the rockets, the looting and raping and killing.†   (source)
  • Feuds?†   (source)
  • Also, he owed a debt of gratitude to Lee Adler, whose support and beneficence had helped put him in office—and whose long-running feud with Jim Williams was well known.†   (source)
  • The main thing was the end of the feud with Sam's pack—which was why the others felt safe to come and go as they pleased again.†   (source)
  • Do you think that the term 'family feud' could be accurately applied to the relationship between your family and that of the defendant?†   (source)
  • Frankie and Gody sparked a match feud, but they got more interested in watching the match suddenly puff out and flit sideways.†   (source)
  • For almost a year, Roshi's father and the uncle had had a feud over the property where Roshi lived with her family, property which the uncle felt belonged rightfully to him, being the older brother, but which his father had passed to the younger, and more favored, brother.†   (source)
  • Next up is Feud.†   (source)
  • There is no aggression here like we all saw in the large southern clans that grew and diminished so quickly in their wild feuds.†   (source)
  • Suppose you were sent to Harlan in the late nineteenth century to investigate the causes of the Howard-Turner feud.†   (source)
  • The old feud had trapped him in its web, killed his Wanna or—worse—left her for Harkonnen tortures until her husband did their bidding.†   (source)
  • Usha still sometimes reminds me that not every perceived slight—from a passing motorist or a neighbor critical of my dogs—is cause for a blood feud.†   (source)
  • Elain swore harshly-startling him, for he had never heard her use such language-then asked, "Is there cause for Thane to declare a feud?"†   (source)
  • She finds him later, talking to other men, men who, like Saboor, have families of their own now but were once the village boys with whom Saboor feuded, flew kites, chased dogs, played hide-and-seek.†   (source)
  • The daughter the Bene Gesserit wanted—it wasn't to end the old Atreides-Harkonnen feud, but to fix some genetic factor in their lines.†   (source)
  • In the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud on the West Virginia-Kentucky border not far from Harlan, several dozen people were killed in a cycle of violence that stretched over twenty years.†   (source)
  • The Baker-Howard feud in Clay County, Kentucky, began in 1806, with an elk-hunting party gone bad, and didn't end until the 1930s, when a couple of Howards killed three Bakers in an ambush.†   (source)
  • He found no peace, however, as a jealous lord initiated a blood feud against Gerand's family, which forced Gerand to kill once more.†   (source)
  • When Cousin Jim murdered former Union soldier Asa Harmon McCoy, he kicked off one of the most famous family feuds in American history.†   (source)
  • KANLY: formal feud or vendetta under the rules of the Great Convention carried on according to the strictest limitations.†   (source)
  • GRUMMAN: second planet of Niushe, noted chiefly for the feud of its ruling House (Moritani) with House Ginaz.†   (source)
  • You could declare a feud yourself.†   (source)
  • The Martin-Tolliver feud, in Rowan County, Kentucky, in the mid-1880s featured three gunfights, three ambushes, and two house attacks, and ended in a two-hour gun battle involving one hundred armed men.†   (source)
  • And it was impossible for Roran to wed Katrina without her father's consent, not unless they wished to divide her family, anger the village by defying tradition, and, most likely, start a blood feud with Sloan.†   (source)
  • In the French-Eversole feud in Perry County, Kentucky, twelve died, six of them killed by "Bad Tom" Smith (a man, John Ed Pearce writes in Days of Darkness, who was "just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous, and a dead shot").†   (source)
  • Orik answered with obvious reluctance: "In the past, it was not uncommon for blood feuds to endure for generations.†   (source)
  • Besides, his father and uncles were old, and the old lords were like that; they took their dusty feuds to the grave, forgetting nothing and forgiving less.†   (source)
  • Some kind of feud.†   (source)
  • Hasty hailed from the stormlands, so had neither friends nor foes along the Trident; no blood feuds, no debts to pay, no cronies to reward.†   (source)
  • Did you come with Lord Bracken and Lord Blackwood, the time they visited to lay their feud before my father?†   (source)
  • Ancestral feud when they were alive.†   (source)
  • This meeting is born of grave necessity, and I hope that today we might transcend old feuds and grievances and unite in common purpose to face the peril before us.†   (source)
  • Working, feuding with Henry, the usual.†   (source)
  • Flying down the Shigar Valley toward Skardu, after retrieving Mortenson from a remote village, Bhangoo became enraged when Mortenson pointed out the ruins of Hemasil's school and related the story of his feud with Agha Mubarek.†   (source)
  • Their feud dates to the autumn of 1959, when Bobby Kennedy went to visit Johnson at his expansive Texas ranch.†   (source)
  • Their blood feuds were as deep and dark as the bogs between their hills From time to time some champion would bring peace to the Point, but it never lasted longer than his lifetime.†   (source)
  • When he remained silent, she said, "We all know of their blood feud with you, Argetlam; every knurla within these mountains knows.†   (source)
  • You been yapping away about 'the list' since I was a haggling.... The two shrieked and threatened each other with an impressive array of grisly deaths until several Agents managed to gently but forcibly escort the feuding hags down separate corridors.†   (source)
  • Not only ancient history—the mythical age of the brothers' feud—but my own history one second ago, has vanished utterly, dropped out of existence.†   (source)
  • Even more aggravating for the President was the unrelenting feud between Jefferson and Hamilton, the two highest officers in his cabinet,and the most gifted.†   (source)
  • Once you learn the ropes, you'll realize that nearly every altercation has something to do with a feud or vendetta of some sort, and the law doesn't much like to get involved with those unless they cross the line, like this one.†   (source)
  • A year earlier, Shah had flown into Kabul fresh from exile and was greeted by a cheering crowd who saw his return as a tiding that life would once again resume its normal course, free from the violence that had marked the decades of misrule by the Soviets, the feuding warlords, and the Taliban.†   (source)
  • If the spirit of feud was aroused against the mill owners, if the Groners and Dawsons had been able to enlist their kin and clan, she was well aware that the man or woman who gave her smiling information as to ways and means, might, the hour before, have looked on Gray Stoddard lying dead, or sat in the council which planned to kill him.†   (source)
  • This will put control of White House business into the hands of Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy, whose feuding has reached an all-time high.†   (source)
  • It's high time we settled this feud.†   (source)
  • Together, the Balti and the big American danced like dervishes and sang of feuding alpine kingdoms, of the savagery of Pathan warriors pouring in from Afghanistan, and battles between the Balti rajas and the strange European conquerors who came first from the West in the time of Alexander, and then, attended by their Gurkha hirelings, from British India to the south and east.†   (source)
  • So that feud was ended.†   (source)
  • The feud that went on between Brand and Cooke continued.†   (source)
  • He tried to recapture the exhilaration of their usual feud.†   (source)
  • But there's no use kindling a feud out of a threat-especially an urchin's threat.†   (source)
  • It is not only that feud and open manslaughter have started: there is the bold bawdry as well.†   (source)
  • After the surrender, an ever-present feud over the horse smoldered between Scarlett and Suellen.†   (source)
  • "One reason," said the magician, "is the immortal feud of Gael and Gall.†   (source)
  • "And we must keep the feud living forever," said Agra-vaine, "because Mammy is a Cornwall.†   (source)
  • There was a feud between his mother and Arthur, and the old woman hated him coming.†   (source)
  • There is the feud of Gael and Gall which we have been talking about, but there are other feuds too.†   (source)
  • "Do you think," asked Arthur, "that feuds are good things?†   (source)
  • There is the feud of Gael and Gall which we have been talking about, but there are other feuds too.†   (source)
  • Well, you can't go about having blood feuds and stabbing each other like Corsicans or the Mafia," said the Colonel.†   (source)
  • Flittman and the horse had been feuding for five years and Evy hoped that one of them would get the decision soon.†   (source)
  • At the age of fifteen, for a wager, he was disguised as a girl and taken to play at the big table in the Jockey Club at Buenos Aires; he dined with Proust and Gide and was on closer terms with Cocteau and Diaghilev; Firbank sent him his novels with fervent inscriptions; he had aroused three irreconcilable feuds in Capri; by his own account he had practiced black art in Cefalit and had been cured of drug-taking in California and of an Oedipus complex in Vienna.†   (source)
  • The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the magnolia tree beneath her window, were bickering, the jays strident, acrimonious, the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive.†   (source)
  • It pleased her when Athelstan Beasely wrote in his column in the A.G.A. Bulletin, discussing the architecture of medieval castles: "To understand the grim ferocity of these structures, we must remember that the wars between feudal lords were a savage business—something like the feud between Miss Dominique Francon and Mr. Howard Roark."†   (source)
  • She spoke a few soft words to Dilcey who nodded kindly, as though an unspoken armistice existed in their old feud.†   (source)
  • Scarlett, looking sorrowfully down the long vista of years to come, knew that she was the cause of a feud that would split the town and the family for generations.†   (source)
  • This worked great hardship and strained the tact and forbearance of the unrelated half of the town, for the India-Melanie feud made a rupture in practically every social organization.†   (source)
  • The people of the Coast which she had left might pride themselves on taking all their affairs, even their duels and their feuds, with a careless air but these north Georgia people had a streak of violence in them.†   (source)
  • Even if we did give ourselves up, Bors and Ector and the rest would carry on the feud—if we were killed.†   (source)
  • Kind and sensitive Aglovale, the forgiver of the Pellinore feud, was exchanging hearty thumps with the beautiful Gareth.†   (source)
  • Arthur had managed to wean Sir Aglovale from his revenge, it is true, and the old feud seemed to have healed over.†   (source)
  • If I want to stop the feud law, do you think it would be any good my appealing to Gawaine, and to people like him?†   (source)
  • And our knights would have no excuse for carrying on the feud, because they would have to obey the Church.... He could find no words.†   (source)
  • There is going to be trouble in Cornwall soon, between Tristram and Mark, and there is the Orkney feud.†   (source)
  • My feud is with the merry monarch.†   (source)
  • This hatred would become a feud, and then the king or leader of the one place would challenge the leader of the other one to a tourney—and both factions would go to the meeting with full intent to do each other mischief.†   (source)
  • They were praying that they might be true to their loving mother—that they might be worthy of the Cornwall feud which she had taught them—and that they might never forget the misty land of Lothian where their fathers reigned.†   (source)
  • The Pellinore feud, the old Pendragon-Cornwall feud, the Lancelot entanglement, and then the sudden death of a person not apparently concerned with any of them—all these mixed themselves together into a fume of venom which coiled, about the Queen.†   (source)
  • There had been the first feeling, a companionship of youth under which Arthur had launched his grand crusade—the second, of chivalrous rivalry growing staler every year in the greatest court of Europe, until it had nearly turned to feud and empty competition.†   (source)
  • They had been talking, before the eagle-owl woke up, about the earlier wrongs of their family—about their grandmother, Igraine, who had been wronged by Arthur's father —about all the long-gone feud of Gael and Gall, which had been taught them by their dam in old Dunlothian.†   (source)
  • There are a hundred extra feuds on foot, for those we killed in the market-place and on the stairs, and for things through half a century of Arthur's past.†   (source)
  • Petty feuds were raging to the destruction of the poor and helpless, and, if a knight did happen to be dragged from his horse in a battle, he was so well screwed up that only an expert could do him harm.†   (source)
  • Grandfather was never a party to what Jake called our feud with the Shimerdas.†   (source)
  • There was some talk of a family feud between him and my cousin, the Marquis de St. Cyr.†   (source)
  • Its philosophy and its feuds dominated her.†   (source)
  • A feud, ages old, was between them, and she, for one, would see to it that he was reminded.†   (source)
  • The warder erst slew
    Some few of folk, and the feud then became 3060
    Wrothfully wreaked.†   (source)
  • And what peace there would be among the forester folk if we ended our feud to-night.†   (source)
  • A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine.†   (source)
  • He was not only a professional peacemaker, but from practice a hater of all feuds and brawls.†   (source)
  • Intrigues were arranged there; tentative meetings were there experimented after divisions and feuds.†   (source)
  • Even the followers of the Excellent One are at feud on feud with one another.†   (source)
  • In changing moon, in tidal wave, Glows the feud of Want and Have.†   (source)
  • So that, you see, there is a deadly feud between us.†   (source)
  • I carried on a feud with him for eighteen months over that sword.†   (source)
  • Jane Osborne condoled with her sister Maria during this family feud.†   (source)
  • This led to a family feud, and he proposed to remove to Virginia.†   (source)
  • For from this moment we are at feud with the cardinal.†   (source)
  • A secret feud of some years' standing was thus healed, and with a tacit reconciliation.†   (source)
  • That there were feuds in the place, no one can deny.†   (source)
  • At that moment Lloyd Mallam, the poet, owner of the Hafiz Book Shop, was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence, but how dull it was in so obvious a place as Zenith.†   (source)
  • Clif asserted, and a feud was on.†   (source)
  • Between the two girls was a feud.†   (source)
  • The relations among the men, strained and made tense by feuds, quarrels and grudges, were in a state of unstable equilibrium, and evil passions flared up in flame like prairie-grass.†   (source)
  • For a long time there was a feud between the baker and a grey cat that belonged to Sylvester West, the druggist.†   (source)
  • Fought down thy father the most of all feuds;
    To Heatholaf was he forsooth for a hand-bane 460
    Amidst of the Wylfings.†   (source)
  • The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest.†   (source)
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