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The Interlopers
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- 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.†
*feud = a bitter, long-standing fight
- The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way; as boys they had thirsted for one another's blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other, and this wind-scourged winter night Ulrich had banded together his foresters to watch the dark forest, not in quest of four-footed quarry, but to keep a look-out for the prowling thieves whom he suspected of being afoot from across the land boundary.†
- And what peace there would be among the forester folk if we ended our feud to-night.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(feud) bitter hostile argument between two parties -- typically long-standing between families or tribes with occasional incidents of violenceSometimes the term blood feud is used to reference a feud between families.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)