What is "broils"

Usage examples of "broils".

For how did the conspiracy of Catiline, even in so large and corrupt a city, find so abundant a supply of men whose hands and tongues found them a living by perjury and civic broils?

Let the terse summary of Sallust suffice to intimate the misery of the republic through all that long period till the second Punic war,-how it was distracted from without by unceasing wars, and tom with civil broils and dissensions.

During the whole subsequent period down to the time of Caesar Augustus, who seems to have entirely deprived the Romans of liberty,-a liberty, indeed, which in their own judgment was no longer glorious, but full of broils and dangers, and which now was quite enervated and languishing,-and who submitted all things again to the will of a monarch, and infused as it were a new life into the sickly old age of the republic, and inaugurated a fresh régime.

Then he charged the boy very seriously to live at peace with his fellow-squires, and for his father's sake as well as his own to enter into none of the broils that were so frequent in their quarters.

In Japan, where there exists a large armed class over whom there is practically little or no control, party and clan broils, and single quarrels ending in bloodshed and death, are matters of daily occurrence.

After plunging us in all the broils of the European nations, there would remain but one act to close our tragedy, that is, to break up our Union.

Much as I abhor war, and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind, and anxiously as I wish to keep out of the broils of Europe, I would yet go with my brethren into these, rather than separate from them.

But in whatever governments they end they will be American governments, no longer to be involved in the never-ceasing broils of Europe.

Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe.

As we have just been explaining, we do not, as a rule, involve ourselves in such broils.

He angered and irritated his barons by his fondness for unworthy favourites, and was engaged in constant broils with them.

Again the English made preparations for a renewed invasion, but the barons were too much occupied by their private broils and their quarrels with the king to assemble at his order, and nothing came of it.