But after the lynx, all
fighting ceased for White Fang.
"But they have been fighting this half-hour and more," said the Doctor.
I have put in this chapter on fighting of malice prepense, partly because I want to give you a true picture of what everyday school life was in my time, and not a kid-glove and go-to- meeting-coat picture, and partly because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists nowadays.
Fighting with fists is the natural and English way for English boys to settle their quarrels.
I stand by you too to protect you, and I bid you be instant in fighting the Trojans; but either you are tired out, or you are afraid and out of heart, and in that case I say that you are no true son of Tydeus the son of Oeneus."
I hate you worst of all the gods in Olympus, for you are ever fighting and making mischief.
For an instant, as though by common assent, we ceased our
fighting to look for the meaning of this new note nor did it take but a moment to translate its significance.
The allied Chino-Japanese fleet made the same distinction as the Germans between airships and fighting machines heavier than air, but the type in both cases was entirely different from the occidental models, and--it is eloquent of the vigour with which these great peoples took up and bettered the European methods of scientific research in almost every particular the invention of Asiatic engineers.
rose again into the sky, like a swarm of big butterflies, and circled fighting and drove away out of sight again towards the east.
Here another hung with its screw fighting off the swordsman from a swarm of flying-machines.
Gahan followed with his Odwar's Panthan one square straight forward, a more scientific move, which opened up an avenue for himself through his line of Panthans, as well as announcing to the players and spectators that he intended having a hand in the fighting himself even before the exigencies of the game forced it upon him.
Physically the two men appeared perfectly matched and each was fighting for his life, but from the first it was apparent that the Black Odwar was the better swordsman, and Gahan knew that he had another and perhaps a greater advantage over his antagonist.