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strife
in
Riders of the Purple Sage
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She wondered if the unrest and strife that had lately come to the little village of Cottonwoods was to involve her.†
Chpt 1 *

strife = violent conflict or angry disagreement
In the daytime there was riding from place to place, and the gun practice to which something drove him, and other tasks that at least necessitated action, at night, before he won sleep, there was strife in his soul.†
Chpt 4
The inner strife ceased, and the hideous roar and crash.†
Chpt 6
He stretched inert, wet, hot, his body one great strife of throbbing, stinging nerves and bursting veins.†
Chpt 8
It was only a gale, but as Venters listened, as his ears became accustomed to the fury and strife, out of it all or through it or above it pealed low and perfectly clear and persistently uniform a strange sound that had no counterpart in all the sounds of the elements.†
Chpt 13

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