join battle with

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To the hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or Tweedledum about to join battle with Tweedledee.

From Mr. Punch Awheel The Humours of Motoring and Cycling by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

The latter were not slow to join battle with the same weapons.

From The White Feather by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Let us hew down that man-eating Juggernaut, I say, that hideous Dagon; and I glow with the heroic courage of Tom Thumb, and join battle with the giant Snob.

From The Book of Snobs by Thackeray, William Makepeace

"And yet you propose to let Rezu join battle with you when the sun is high, or in other words to court defeat," I remarked.

From She and Allan by Haggard, Henry Rider