What is "do battle"

Usage examples of "do battle".

Max upped the magnification on his cameras, locked in on the table, and found Lisa, Ben, and Rick, looking none the worse for wear but in no condition to do battle with their giant captors.

In the sport of wrestling, the wrestler is part of a team, but he must do battle individually.

The second time Ashalind had heard such a cry was when the Awakened knights of Eagle's Howe had appeared to do battle on the High Plain.

Sav could refuse to do battle unless his terms were met, and do so with honor-and the word would quickly spread to Sol's other tribal leaders.

Meanwhile an immense Hindu host from all the countries about, under command of the king of Orissa, prepared to do battle for their country, and a decisive action took place near the river at Palinchinur, in which the Hindus were completely defeated.

Arrived at close quarters, the illustrious Gerbino bade send the ship's masters aboard the galleys, unless they were minded to do battle.

But the kings that ruled in Iqqua after Haalor went not forth to do battle with the ice.

And a man who is six feet three in height has six feet and three inches of evil to do battle with, if he has not six feet three of strength and honesty to fight for him.

Nor did he scorn to do battle with a weasel as hungry as himself and many times more ferocious.

It was for others thou didst fight, my son, and for others it is pardonable to do battle.

But another product of the French and Indian War, the road that General John Forbes had hacked through the Pennsylvania wilderness to deliver his unwieldy army to do battle at Fort Duquesne, ensured that the treaty would be violated almost immediately.

My lord could sail away and fight corsairs, but her poor ladyship must remain behind and do battle only with her heart, gaining no laurels thereby.