passage of arms
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Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington A disputed passage of arms Ronald Reagan's arms control negotiators face an immensely difficult task in trying to push their Soviet counterparts toward an agreement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your uncle and I often have a passage of arms together.”
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by George Manville Fenn
Mrs. Armstrong understood her daughter's character more correctly than her husband, with all his boasted superiority of intellect, and therefore she dreaded a passage of arms between these two so near and dear to her.
From Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles by H. B. Paull
After that preliminary passage of arms, comes the capital argument in the book.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Charles Bastide
They all agreed, and so the matter dropped, not, however, before there had been a slight passage of arms between the carpenter and the cook.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton
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