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In a hard and warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve, more subtle brain, more braver heart, than any man.

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 Meanings and Examples of WARLIKE
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warlike
 a.  suggesting war or military life; disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  For he thought that in saving the Capitol, he had himself done as much as Camillus to preserve Rome, and that in respect of his other warlike achievements he was no whit behind him.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII.
2  Here it seems to me not out of place to cite instances of the Romans seeking assistance from religion in reforming their institutions and in carrying out their warlike designs.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII.
3  Nor would they ever set forth on any warlike expedition, until they had satisfied their soldiers that the gods had promised them victory.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV.
4  And this was possible through the prudence of the English king and the wise ordinances of his kingdom, which never in time of peace relaxes its warlike discipline.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI.
5  For without the senate they could take no warlike measures, while by assembling the senate they seemed to put an end to their own authority.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XL.
6  For we never find Rome seeking to acquire towns, or to purchase peace with money, but always confiding in her own warlike valour, which could not, I believe, be said of any other republic.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXX.
7  He was a very warlike man, and the armies, being disgusted with the effeminacy of Alexander, of whom I have already spoken, killed him and elected Maximinus to the throne.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX — THAT ONE SHOULD AVOID BEING DESPISED AND HA...
8  Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
9  Montcalm, who felt that his influence over the warlike tribes he had gathered was to be maintained by concession rather than by power, complied reluctantly with the other's request.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
10  In a hard and warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve, more subtle brain, more braver heart, than any man.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  Our wood-cutters raised a warlike whoop; the report of a rifle just at my back deafened me.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
12  As soon as he noticed a French officer, who thrust his head out of the door, that warlike feeling of hostility which he always experienced at the sight of the enemy suddenly seized him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIX
13  Likhachev got up, rummaged in his pack, and soon Petya heard the warlike sound of steel on whetstone.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER X
14  A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
15  All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of gay and formidable whisper which resembled the warlike hum of a hive of bees.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III—LIGHT AND SHADOW
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