Animosities that may span generations

Usage examples of feuds.

Alea would have to find out how to use that communication to lighten the feuds, not increase them, that was all.

When they can no longer endure it, they speak out against the feuds and are therefore cast out of their clans.

But unlike most feuds, the battle between Filippo and Lorenzo shed no blood, destroyed no cities.

English education, and his serious rebellion against the English began in September 1400, after Henry IV had been King for half a year, partly because of personal feuds with a neighboring English lord and partly because the confusion inherent in the beginning of the reign of a king considered a usurper by many offered him troubled water to fish in.

They carried on their feuds with other chieftains of either Norman or native Irish extraction, made war and peace at will, and generally kept the land in a state of turbulence.

True, individual feuds and vendettas do still sometimes occur, but these are as nothing beside the conflicts of the unsolid days.

With the memory of past feuds and hatreds in his mind, and predisposed against any Vaufontaine, his greeting was courteously disdainful, his manner preoccupied.

We have many rivalries and feuds among the families of the various clansthat is traditionbut this sort of disaster could set us back a dozen years in our alliance with the Overlord.

Many old feuds were resolved, and we had many marriages between the clans, so that as time passed, we were forming a single people.

Factions, old national rivalries, and age-old feuds were facts of Keshian court life, and the Empress kept her Empire intact by playing off one faction against another.

I have kept peace here and tried to prevent feuds and raids rather than repelling them.

Aldaran, too, seemed to have a valid ethical point, that this kept them struggling in small wars and feuds which depended for their success on who had the stronger physical strength.

In their faces stem defiance, In their hearts the feuds of ages, The hereditary hatred, The ancestral thirst of vengeance.

Looked upon their wrath and wrangling But as quarrels among children, But as feuds and fights of children!

Very fierce are the Dacotahs, Often is there war between us, There are feuds yet unforgotten, Wounds that ache and still may open!