All 9 Uses

strife
in
The Call of the Canyon
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It was the voice of a people crying out the strife and the agony of the year—pealing forth a prayer for the future.†
Chpt 1 *

strife = violent conflict or angry disagreement
Decision had been wrenched from her, but she sensed unending strife.†
Chpt 7
All the intervening weeks of shame and anguish and fury and strife and pathos, and the endless striving to forget, were as if by the magic of a letter made nothing but vain oblations.†
Chpt 9
The change from strife to surrender was so novel and sweet that for days she felt renewed.†
Chpt 9
But she had reached a point in her mental strife where she could not stand before Rust and let him believe she was noble and faithful when she knew she was neither.†
Chpt 10
She went to the theater a good deal, showing preference for the drama of strife, and she did not go anywhere for amusement.†
Chpt 10
If nature and evolution proved the absolute need of strife, war, blood, and death in the progress of animal and man toward perfection, then it would be better to abandon this Christless code and let the race of man die out.†
Chpt 10
But in the end Carley found that the rending strife of the transformation of her attitude toward life had insensibly ceased.†
Chpt 11
In the seclusion of her tent, crouched on her bed, silent, locked, motionless, she yet was the embodiment of all terrible strife and storm in nature.†
Chpt 12

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