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And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYDo not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSVain also was the valour and ability he showed in the campaign against the Royalists in La Vende.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONSleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSBeginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.
A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODDWhether they had ever, at different times, pleaded for or against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions?
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFTHe leant against the wall of his refuge, notwithstanding this boast, and licked the ice to moisten his parched lips.
THE GIANT OF THE NORTHR.M. BALLANTYNEWhen the women came, he was preparing to go to the west side for his daily visit with Mrs. Pruitt.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXWere you ever arrested, having in your custody another man's cash, and would rather go to gaol, than break it?
THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, OF YORK, MARINER (1801)DANIEL DEFOEBut if God made man, then God is responsible for all man's acts and thoughts, and therefore man cannot sin against God.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDWORDS RELATED TO GO AGAINST THE GRAIN
- altercated
- battled
- bickered
- brawled
- broke with
- brought action
- clashed
- contended
- contested
- controversialized
- controverted
- debated
- differed
- disaccorded
- discepted
- discorded
- disputed
- dissented
- divided
- fell out
- feuded
- fought
- had words
- haggled
- jumped on
- lay into
- let had it
- logomachized
- objected
- opposed
- paltered
- quarrelled
- quibbled
- ripped
- rowed
- scrapped
- set to
- skirmished
- sparred
- spat
- sued
- took issue
- took on
- warred
- went for the jugular
- wrangled
- zapped
- altercates
- battles
- bickers
- brawls
- breaks with
- brings action
- clashes
- contends
- contests
- controversializes
- controverts
- debates
- differs
- disaccords
- discepts
- discords
- disputes
- dissents
- divides
- falls out
- feuds
- fights
- goes for the jugular
- haggles
- has words
- jumps on
- lets has it
- lies into
- logomachizes
- objects
- opposes
- palters
- quarrels
- quibbles
- rips
- rows
- scraps
- sets to
- skirmishes
- spars
- spits
- sues
- takes issue
- takes on
- wars
- wrangles
- zaps
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