All 9 Uses
strife
in
The Light of Western Stars
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- The bawling and bellowing, the crackling of horns and pounding of hoofs, the dusty whirl of cattle, and the flying cowboys disconcerted Madeline and frightened her a little; but she was intensely interested and meant to stay there until she saw for herself what that strife of sound and action meant.†
Chpt 5strife = violent conflict or angry disagreement
- The fierce desert had reached up to meet the magnetic heights where heat and wind and frost and lightning and flood contended in everlasting strife.†
Chpt 15 *
- Then, with that perversity of character of which she was wholly conscious, she was humble, submissive, reverent, and fearful even while she gloried in the grandeur of the dark, cloud-shadowed crags and canyons, the stupendous strife of sound, the wonderful driving lances of white fire.†
Chpt 15
- For in this moment of strife, of insult to her, of torture to the man she had uplifted and then broken, the passion of her reached deep toward primitive hate.†
Chpt 20
- That strife—the struggle to decide her destiny for East or West—held still further aloof.†
Chpt 21
- It caused her no mental strife.†
Chpt 22
- She only felt all her instinctive outward action that was a physical relief, all her involuntary inner strife that was maddening, yet unutterably sweet; and they seemed to be just one bewildering effect of surprise.†
Chpt 23
- But the road began to wind up; it turned and twisted in tantalizing lazy curves; it was in no hurry to surmount a hill that began to assume proportions of a mountain; it was leisurely, as were all things in Mexico except strife.†
Chpt 24
- This walk of his seemingly took longer than all her hours of awakening, of strife, of remorse, longer than the ride to find him.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(strife) violent conflict or angry disagreement
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)