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Usage examples of "take up arms".
The surplus prisoners not exchanged shall not be permitted to take up arms again, nor to serve as military police or constabulary force in any fort, garrison or field-work, held by either of the respective parties, nor as guards of prisoners, deposits or stores, nor to discharge any duty usually performed by soldiers, until exchanged under the provisions of this cartel.
He himself would be greeted with a hefty degree of suspicion by Bahzell's fellow Horse Stealers, some of whom would regard him as a turncoat and traitor, and if he actually found himself forced to take up arms against other Bloody Swords.
Louis, astonished the country by issuing a proclamation declaring, among other things, that the property, real and personal, of all the persons in the State of Missouri who should take up arms against the United States, or who should be directly proved to have taken an active part with its enemies in the field, would be confiscated to public use and their slaves, if they had any, declared freemen.
It's insane to take up arms against one race on behalf of an.
Here was his master defeated, and bound not to take up arms for a year.
But they would have answered him, he knew, that in such a cause it behoved every man who deemed himself a man to take up arms.
Feridun received the smith and his banner as a sign of destiny, and decided to take up arms againsl Zohak.
Those who died will have left sons to take up arms as soon as they are able.
He thunders in the squares and from the pulpits, and the common men of all nations take up arms to do us harm.
Could Tyrion truly take up arms against Tommen, against his own father?
There were still not more than a few hundred abolitionists in the United States willing to take up arms themselves, on behalf of “.
She's persuaded about half the world to take up arms and follow her.
Before they could be routed, Lord Corwin himself had to take up arms once more.
Still the thought of a king of their own would inflame the popular mind, and vast numbers who now hesitate to join a movement supported by so little authority, would then take up arms.
It is as If we are beneath their notice unless we take up arms against them.