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These things being so, it is foolish to say that these victories and this strifeful gain are matters of merely racial application.

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Egil's sons were tall and strifeful; they were most unfair men.

The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown

These things being so, it is foolish to say that these victories, and this strifeful gain are matters of merely racial application.

Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women. James T. Haley 1895

As already set forth, there are three divisions of this first part of the Fourth Book: the simple idyllic Present at Sparta, the disrupted strifeful Past at Troy, the movement out of the latter by way of Egypt.

Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

Of strifeful breath, or wails of death, just fifty years ago.

Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1882

Fasold: "Base death-dog! thou hast stolen on my brother Ecke in his sleep and murdered him; for when he was awake thou hadst never overcome that strifeful hero".

Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872

But that is true which I spake to thee when we came together up out of Shadowy Vale, to wit, that I am no strifeful man, but a peaceful; and I look to it to win through this war, and find on the other side either death, or life amongst a happy folk; and I deem that this is mostly the mind of our people. '

The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865

Undying; but as for me I was ever an overbearing and masterful man, and meseemeth it is well that I meet as few of our kindred as may be: for they are a strifeful race. "

The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865