All 23 Uses of
feud
in
The Once and Future King
- "And we must keep the feud living forever," said Agra-vaine, "because Mammy is a Cornwall.†
Book 2feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
- "One reason," said the magician, "is the immortal feud of Gael and Gall.†
Book 2
- There is the feud of Gael and Gall which we have been talking about, but there are other feuds too.†
Book 2
- There is the feud of Gael and Gall which we have been talking about, but there are other feuds too.†
Book 2feuds = bitter, long-standing fights
- Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.
Book 2 *
- 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.†
Book 2feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
- 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.†
Book 3feuds = bitter, long-standing fights
- 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.†
Book 3feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
- There is going to be trouble in Cornwall soon, between Tristram and Mark, and there is the Orkney feud.†
Book 3
- It is not only that feud and open manslaughter have started: there is the bold bawdry as well.†
Book 3
- "Do you think," asked Arthur, "that feuds are good things?†
Book 3feuds = bitter, long-standing fights
- 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?†
Book 3feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
- 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.†
Book 3
- Arthur had managed to wean Sir Aglovale from his revenge, it is true, and the old feud seemed to have healed over.†
Book 3
- 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.†
Book 3
- 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.†
Book 3
- Kind and sensitive Aglovale, the forgiver of the Pellinore feud, was exchanging hearty thumps with the beautiful Gareth.†
Book 3
- 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.†
Book 4
- My feud is with the merry monarch.†
Book 4
- There was a feud between his mother and Arthur, and the old woman hated him coming.†
Book 4
- Even if we did give ourselves up, Bors and Ector and the rest would carry on the feud—if we were killed.†
Book 4
- 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.†
Book 4feuds = bitter, long-standing fights
- 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.†
Book 4feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
Definition:
bitter hostile argument between two parties -- typically long-standing between families or tribes with occasional incidents of violence
Sometimes the term blood feud is used to reference a feud between families.