Thesaurus / engagement
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"I congratulate you on your engagement," he said at last, looking up with a face that seemed to Bernard hard and unnatural.
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESEngagement between the Austrians and Piedmontese before Verona; great loss on both sides.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLScarce a day passed without some engagement in which the King of Naples showed his audacity and his talent as a leader.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONOld Mrs. Wurzel turned confidentially to the vicar's wife and said, "Is her engagement generally known?"
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSMiss Thangue's mind was occupied at first with the obvious engagement of Gwynne and Mrs. Kaye.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONCovenanting in civil life is the exercise of entering into a covenant engagement, or of renewing it.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMIt is one indeed generally of a short period, yet not on that account the less an engagement.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMEvidence has been given, that the latter kind of oaths, viewed as promissory, brings under an engagement to God.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMI have in every respect fulfilled my part of the engagement with the adventurers, and expect that they will do the same with me.
LIFE OF RICHARD TREVITHICK, VOLUME II (OF 2)FRANCIS TREVITHICKAnd the resolution to abandon Satan and his cause enters into the covenant engagement.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMWORDS RELATED TO ENGAGEMENT
- actions
- assaults
- attacks
- barrages
- blitzkreigs
- bloodshed
- bombings
- brushes
- campaigns
- carnage
- clashes
- combats
- conflicts
- contentions
- crusades
- encounters
- engagements
- fightings
- fray
- havoc
- hostilities
- onsets
- onslaughts
- presses
- ravages
- scrimmages
- significant contacts
- skirmishes
- sorties
- strife
- struggles
- warfare
- wars
- affray
- argument
- battle
- brawl
- break
- broil
- brush
- bump
- collision
- concussion
- conflict
- confrontation
- crash
- difference of opinion
- discord
- discordance
- disharmony
- dispute
- donnybrook
- embroilment
- encounter
- engagement
- fracas
- fray
- have a go at each other
- impact
- jam
- jar
- jolt
- jump
- melee
- misunderstanding
- mix up
- opposition
- rift
- riot
- row
- rumpus
- run-in
- rupture
- scrap
- scrimmage
- set-to
- shock
- showdown
- skirmish
- smash
- wallop
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