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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
enemy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bitter rival/enemy (=a rival/enemy who you have strong feelings of dislike or anger about)
▪ The two men are bitter rivals for the party leadership.
an enemy spy
▪ He gave information to enemy spies.
enemy action
▪ The ship was damaged by enemy action.
enemy fighters
▪ He was shot down by enemy fighters.
enemy forces
▪ Enemy forces now occupy substantial areas of the city.
enemy lines
▪ One regiment was trapped behind enemy lines.
enemy propaganda
▪ He was charged with ‘distributing enemy propaganda’.
enemy troops
▪ His platoon was captured by enemy troops.
enemy/hostile territory
▪ Patterson had never flown so deep into enemy territory before.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bitter
▪ Both Rennenkampf and Samsonov had distinguished military records as cavalry commanders in Manchuria, but they had quarrelled and become bitter enemies.
▪ The southern conviction that the Republicans were bitter enemies of slavery precipitated this decision.
▪ In the course of time he and Richard were to become fellow-crusaders and bitter enemies.
▪ The two neighbors fought a war from 1980 to 1988 and still are bitter enemies.
▪ He felt humiliated and helpless; his bitter enemy and master, Hassanali Fakhru, stood in the doorway and spoke.
deadly
▪ Mr Roberts and I are deadly enemies.
▪ They're deadly enemies, those two.
▪ The two rapidly became deadly enemies.
▪ Her tranquil life was threatened by the coming of a man whom she regarded as her deadly enemy.
great
▪ Its greatest enemy is inner peace.
▪ For a time, none the less, the Congregationalist clergy closed ranks around the Suspect Mayhew against the great enemy that Caner represented.
▪ The forest had cornered its greatest enemy, and would show no mercy.
▪ But here was the great enemy of my people lying deathly ill and I had nothing going.
▪ Pessimism about the nature of old age is perhaps the greatest enemy of a happy and fulfilled old age.
▪ The desire for economic security was long considered the great enemy of increased production.
▪ Cold, if he lay here too long, might be a greater enemy to him now than anything else.
▪ Verisof, next to Salvor Hardin, is your greatest enemy.
ill
▪ Like all good conspiracy theories, the polio vaccine theory's originators are its worst enemies.
▪ We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.
▪ In other words, we are our own worst enemy.
▪ People are their own worst enemies.
▪ I hope you can enjoy it, but if not, give it to your worst enemy.
▪ To what extent would she say she was her own worst enemy?
▪ Players can be real snobs about names, too, so they are their own worst enemies.
▪ I say, Hey, Legs, you and Schultz, you supposed to be the worst enemies.
mortal
▪ It was also the mortal enemy of horses and would rip them apart in seconds with its mighty talons.
▪ I remembered doing this sort of stuff in sixth grade with my mortal enemy, Tommy Jancko.
▪ Well, it might be a big one with a misleading number-plate which simply doesn't stop that gets your mortal enemy.
natural
▪ In classical biological control, a natural enemy is introduced to control an organism that has become a pest in its absence.
▪ Reactive techniques like reorganization, retrenchment, and restriction are the natural enemies of organizational innovation.
▪ The doctrine rested on the assumption that the country had no natural enemies and advanced no territorial claims on its neighbours.
▪ The pesticide killed off weevils and other insects, leaving the army worm to multiply unchecked by its natural enemies.
▪ The plant toxin renders both the caterpillar and the adult butterfly particularly repellent to natural enemies.
▪ Much more can be done to improve the conservation of natural enemies in the field.
▪ In the wild, the pair would be natural enemies.
old
▪ The old enemies become friends again as they organise the meeting to discuss the raid.
▪ History will not judge us by whether we get these old enemies to peace talks.
▪ Did he not choose to retreat when his old enemy Rennenkampf was advancing?
▪ Now time, my old enemy, was precious to me.
▪ He wants to, but his attempts are thwarted by an old enemy who could harm his wife's business.
▪ Sharpe, his telescope open, stared down at the old, familiar enemy.
▪ But the battle is essentially between the old enemies, Conservative and Labour.
▪ He put his old enemy, corporate power, in the firing line.
political
▪ Wagner, in retreat from pursuing creditors and political enemies, was one.
▪ Still, Arpaio counts the supervisors as political enemies.
▪ As some of his political enemies in Knowsley North might say, he would, wouldn't he?
▪ Rehnquist was also a great scholar and a formidable intellect; no one insisted on this more forcefully than his political enemies.
▪ Some have even said the killing was faked to allow Marlowe to escape his political enemies.
▪ The corruption purges, for example, were targeted at his political enemies, he noted.
sworn
▪ More and more the sworn enemies of Tokugawa political power openly flouted Bakufu authority.
▪ This killer dressed like a popinjay, sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies.
▪ In the Fifties they were sworn enemies.
▪ It is a strange sister party which wants to see Labour's sworn enemies back in power.
▪ One minute they were sworn enemies, the next they were clinging together in fierce mutual desire.
■ NOUN
action
▪ He showed great fortitude and tenacity in carrying on his professional work in spite of adversity resulting from enemy action.
▪ Between 1939 and 1945, 80,000 men, women and children were killed by enemy action on the Home Front.
▪ Always known as Wesley's Cottage it was destroyed by enemy action in May 1941.
▪ Sadly, he says, all the actual trophies were destroyed by enemy action during the war.
aircraft
▪ Delight died at six thirty-eight a.m. when the first enemy aircraft appeared from the west.
▪ Tanimizu is said to have shot down 32 enemy aircraft.
▪ Probably due to the confusion no one thought of asking the radar station at Opana in which direction the enemy aircraft headed.
▪ Should our carriers become separated during attacks by enemy aircraft, they will endeavor to remain within visual touch.
▪ Then further enemy aircraft arrived and bombed and strafed the patrol for several hours.
▪ Allied spokesmen make light of the fact that so many enemy aircraft remain intact.
▪ Truck after truck was set ablaze and each fire acted as a homing beacon for more enemy aircraft.
▪ Finlayson spent fifteen minutes teaching Tribe the signals, and describing the blind spots of enemy aircraft.
fighter
▪ I instructed Peter to keep a sharp lookout for enemy fighters and then to follow me.
▪ For this expenditure, intelligence estimated that 231 enemy fighters were killed.
▪ Antiaircraft fire had become greatly intensified, but in my continued observations I saw no enemy fighter planes.
▪ As many as 60 enemy fighters flew abreast of the Group, then turned and attacked in formation, using saturation tactics.
▪ No enemy fighters were in the air, nor were there any gun flashes from the ground.
▪ Only a few, isolated bursts of flak were seen and no enemy fighters were encountered.
▪ About four enemy fighters which took off were promptly shot down.
fire
▪ She kept moving, and the enemy fire kept missing her.
▪ The tracks began turning around to face the enemy fire.
▪ Columns of men in close order moved slowly and were very exposed to enemy fire.
▪ This was an activity not much favoured at Verdun, as it invariably attracted a tornado of enemy fire.
▪ A huge explosion drowned the enemy fire and Killion caught a glimpse of a burning bomber slowly sliding along on its nose.
▪ We were under enemy fire all the time, being shelled with Stukas coming down.
force
▪ Duke Wolf, believes that the enemy forces could have seized Dau Tieng had they realized how weak defenses had become.
▪ The Combined Fleet operation order gives first priority to the destruction of enemy forces.
▪ Being tested was: Can small units, equipped with high-tech gizmos, stop or slow down a much larger enemy force?
lines
▪ If I didn't have that curiosity I would walk into enemy lines and let myself be killed.
▪ Officially, Ben Malcom was not 125 miles behind enemy lines.
▪ The design resulted from an Air Ministry requirement for the rapid, accurate delivery of specialist troops and agents behind enemy lines.
▪ Many bombing and rocket strikes were carried out against enemy lines of communication and supplies.
▪ The Duchess of Finchley's Light Infantry was trapped behind enemy lines, but it was digging in.
▪ In fact, he had been taken prisoner after going behind enemy lines to retrieve the body of a friend.
▪ Knowing this as the Empire player means that you can position your volley guns to block obvious enemy lines of advance.
▪ Those who joined knew full well that they were liable to be dropped behind enemy lines.
territory
▪ They were flying steadily eastwards, deeper into enemy territory.
▪ It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory, excluding the requirement of combat.
▪ The Labour movement might not be a home for lesbians and gays, but it was certainly no longer enemy territory.
▪ Bosnia, it has been determined by some one, is considered enemy territory.
▪ She remains for him, even in modernity, enemy territory.
▪ The prize may be to seize the enemy territory, but that is a small reward for so dangerous a business.
▪ It was about laying waste enemy territory, about the pursuit of a retreating army, about sieges.
▪ No army would advance into enemy territory and carelessly leave behind it important pockets of resistance.
unit
▪ They need a clear line of sight to shoot and will tear through several ranks of an enemy unit.
▪ The elaborate nets thrown out by air proved far too porous to trap major enemy units.
▪ It is perfectly capable of wiping out even the largest enemy unit.
▪ Better yet, from the point of view of headquarters, was intelligence revealing the general whereabouts of an enemy unit.
▪ Mortars, especially, are very nasty against large enemy units.
▪ Several times, sweeps through rough terrain, which had previously yielded nothing, resulted in the discovery of enemy units.
▪ When this happens work out the effect just as if it were an enemy unit.
▪ At the same time use your supporting troops to tie up the enemy units you want to keep out of the way.
■ VERB
attack
▪ Either we attack the enemy positions, or they are going to attack us in strength.
▪ We would hide in rice fields, jungles, and swamps, and we would attack when the enemy was off guard.
▪ Meanwhile the swordsmen move round to attack the enemy in the sides or to protect the halberdiers against a flanking attack.
▪ It viewed the Marshalls attack merely as an enemy attempt to divert strength from our southern operations.
▪ The less energy spent in defending, the more strength remains to attack and defeat the enemy.
▪ The second alternative system would attack enemy missiles right after launch, instead of in space.
▪ I suddenly realise that we are attacking the enemy positions and we are now running through the trees.
▪ Early in 1258, when the king attacked his enemies amongst the city's rulers, Fitzthomas escaped unscathed.
become
▪ They become instant targets for enemy war machines!
▪ However, when you are an entrepreneur, networking, unless properly controlled, can become your biggest enemy.
▪ He responded defensively, becoming eventually what his enemies had called him all along: a dictator.
▪ And, like Feingold, Gross became an enemy of the people.
▪ It's a constant amazement how an apparently harmless piece of rubbish can become an animal's enemy.
▪ The two rapidly became deadly enemies.
▪ Persons become friends or enemies according to the trend of circumstance..
defeat
▪ The re-enactment with a water bottle celebrated the goal that defeated the auld enemy.
▪ They were finally defeated and no other enemy entered Attica as long as Theseus lived.
▪ The less energy spent in defending, the more strength remains to attack and defeat the enemy.
▪ El Cid upholds his honour and that of his King by defeating an enemy champion in single combat.
destroy
▪ It had the job of destroying the enemy headquarters.
▪ His conclusion also was that our next operation must be an all-out effort to destroy the enemy carriers.
▪ It is they who carry out the traditional infantry role of closing with and destroying the enemy.
▪ Eyeless at Gaza, Samson struggled to regain the power to pull down the pillars that destroyed him and his enemies together.
▪ You flew to destroy the enemy.
▪ Always known as Wesley's Cottage it was destroyed by enemy action in May 1941.
▪ Another project that the ministry has suddenly accelerated after two years of inaction is a new missile designed to destroy enemy radars.
face
▪ To help you remember it is a good idea to turn the catapult round so it faces away from the enemy.
▪ Some of them were unable to hide their disappointment at being cheated out of the chance of facing the enemy.
▪ The tracks began turning around to face the enemy fire.
▪ Having no better plan, she decided to act upon it, stopped in her tracks, turned and faced her enemy.
▪ In an ideal world you'd have sufficient troops of each type to pick the perfect force for facing any particular enemy.
▪ Mr Komarek may have some influential friends, but he also faces powerful enemies.
▪ Lampard had the body of the Oberst placed at the side of the trail, pistol in hand, facing the enemy.
fight
▪ They fought back as the enemy continued to bomb hangars and parked aircraft.
▪ He could fight an enemy, but not this undefinable emptiness.
▪ The athlete then fights off enemies with sword and pistol.
▪ He would fight the enemy in a good cause: denial of justice.
▪ The men fought the enemy and the flames at the same time.
▪ All the crew may fight against any enemy in contact with the War Wagon, whether to its front, sides, or rear.
▪ Ridicule, imprisonment or even death may be used against those who will not fight the socially defined enemy.
kill
▪ Between 1939 and 1945, 80,000 men, women and children were killed by enemy action on the Home Front.
▪ It later was further attenuated by including anyone killed or wounded in enemy territory, excluding the requirement of combat.
▪ They lived like nomads, ambushing, killing the enemy, moving on.
▪ He seemed glad to find Petey rocketing around and killing his enemies.
▪ At puberty, males become warriors and killing an enemy is often a prerequisite of attaining full adult status.
▪ They eventually suffered from an embarrassment of riches: they laughingly killed all their enemies and created their worst nightmare.
▪ Kenjutsu was not a sport: it was simply the art of killing an enemy as quickly as possible.
swear
▪ Woolley swore, cursing the enemy into flames.
▪ Also playing a key role as protagonists and unlikely allies are two former sworn enemies, both ladinos.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be your own worst enemy
▪ In other words, we are our own worst enemy.
▪ My father was his own worst enemy.
▪ People are their own worst enemies.
▪ Players can be real snobs about names, too, so they are their own worst enemies.
▪ To what extent would she say she was her own worst enemy?
▪ You could say that Gilly is her own worst enemy.
deadly enemy
▪ Her tranquil life was threatened by the coming of a man whom she regarded as her deadly enemy.
▪ Mr Roberts and I are deadly enemies.
▪ The two rapidly became deadly enemies.
▪ They're deadly enemies, those two.
mortal enemy/foe
▪ I remembered doing this sort of stuff in sixth grade with my mortal enemy, Tommy Jancko.
▪ It was also the mortal enemy of horses and would rip them apart in seconds with its mighty talons.
▪ Well, it might be a big one with a misleading number-plate which simply doesn't stop that gets your mortal enemy.
public enemy number one
▪ She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
▪ Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
sworn enemies
▪ Also playing a key role as protagonists and unlikely allies are two former sworn enemies, both ladinos.
▪ In the Fifties they were sworn enemies.
▪ It is a strange sister party which wants to see Labour's sworn enemies back in power.
▪ More and more the sworn enemies of Tokugawa political power openly flouted Bakufu authority.
▪ One minute they were sworn enemies, the next they were clinging together in fierce mutual desire.
▪ This killer dressed like a popinjay, sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an enemy of the Jewish people
▪ Britain and France decided to unite and fight against their common enemy.
▪ Did your husband have any enemies?
▪ Even though these soldiers were our enemies, I felt desperately sorry for them.
▪ My parents sometimes seem to treat me as if I was their enemy.
▪ One man was ordered to observe enemy aircraft and to warn when danger was imminent.
▪ the enemies of democracy
▪ The detective wanted to know whether the dead man had had any enemies.
▪ the president's political enemies were quick to denounce him.
▪ They accused him of giving secret information to the enemy.
▪ You cannot attack an enemy unless you have precise information about their numbers and position.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And because the enemies should be allies, the clash is poignant.
▪ And still there was not a scrap of information about enemy naval forces.
▪ As a consequence the houseworker stands indicted as the worst enemy the environment has.
▪ Fatigue had made him slothful, and now he'd let his enemies get dangerously close.
▪ If I didn't have that curiosity I would walk into enemy lines and let myself be killed.
▪ The enemy should be totally unaware of their arrival.
▪ The new religion considered the body, and its animal desires, as the enemy of true reason.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enemy

Enemy \En"e*my\, n.; pl. Enemies. [OF. enemi, F. ennemi, from L. inimicus; in- (negative) + amicus friend. See Amicable.] One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.

To all good he enemy was still.
--Spenser.

I say unto you, Love your enemies.
--Matt. v. 44.

The enemy (Mil.), the hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we have met the enemy and he is ours or they are ours.

It was difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay.
--Macaulay.

Syn: Foe; antagonist; opponent. See Adversary.

Enemy

Enemy \En"e*my\, a. Hostile; inimical. [Obs.]

They . . . every day grow more enemy to God.
--Jer. Taylor.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
enemy

early 13c., "one hateful toward and intent on harming (someone)," from Old French enemi (12c., Modern French ennemi), earlier inimi (9c.) "enemy, adversary, foe; demon, the Devil," from Latin inimicus "an enemy," literally "an unfriend," noun use of adjective meaning "hostile, unfriendly" (source also of Italian nemico, Catalan enamic, Spanish enemigo, Portuguese inimigo), from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + amicus "friend" related to amare "to love" (see Amy). From c.1300 in English as "adversary of God, unbeliever, heathen, anti-Christian;" late 14c. as "the Devil;" also late 14c. as "member of an armed, hostile body in a war, feud, etc.;" of the opposing military forces as a whole, from c.1600. From mid-14c. as an adjective.\n

\nMost Indo-European words for "personal enemy" cover also "enemy in war," but certain languages have special terms for the latter, such as Greek polemioi (distinct from ekhthroi), Latin hostis, originally "stranger" (distinct from inimicus), Russian neprijatel' (distinct from vrag). Russian vrag (Old Church Slavonic vragu) is cognate with Lithuanian vargas "misery" (see urge (v.)), and probably is related to Proto-Germanic *wargoz, source of Old Norse vargr "outlaw," hence "wolf;" Icelandic vargur "fox;" Old English wearg "criminal, felon;" which likely were the inspirations for J.R.R. Tolkien's warg as the name of a kind of large ferocious wolf in "The Hobbit" (1937) and "Lord of the Rings." Related: Enemies.

Wiktionary
enemy

a. of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy alt. 1 Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. 2 A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation. 3 An alliance of such forces. 4 Something harmful or threatening to another n. 1 Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else. 2 A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation. 3 An alliance of such forces. 4 Something harmful or threatening to another

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WordNet
enemy

  1. n. an opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn"

  2. an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: foe, foeman, opposition]

  3. any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy"

  4. a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years" [syn: foe] [ant: ally]

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Wikipedia
Enemy (disambiguation)

An enemy or foe is an individual or group that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening.

Enemy, Enemies or The Enemy may refer to:

  • Enemy combatant
Enemy (Blood for Blood album)

Enemy is the second 7inc. by Blood for Blood. It´s released in 1997 by Victory Records. Its catalog number is VR060.

Enemy (American band)

Enemy is an American band fronted by guitarist and vocalist Troy Van Leeuwen (also of Queens of the Stone Age), with bassist Eddie Nappi ( Handsome, Mark Lanegan Band) and drummer Kelli Scott ( Failure). Former Quicksand drummer Alan Cage was a founding member before being replaced by Scott. Van Leeuwen has described Enemy as his "big, dumb rock trio".

Enemy (Fozzy song)

"Enemy" is the lead single from rock band Fozzy's All That Remains album.

Enemy (Sevendust song)

"Enemy" is a song by American alternative metal band Sevendust and the lead single from their fourth album, Seasons. It was released on September 25, 2003 with an accompanying music video.

Enemy (Drowning Pool song)

"Enemy" is a song by the band Drowning Pool. It is the second track on their third studio album Full Circle.

Enemy (Days of the New song)

"Enemy" is a song by Days of the New and the lead single from their second eponymous album also known as "Green." The song reached #2 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks in 1999 and #10 on the Modern Rock Tracks the same year, becoming only their second song to hit the Top 10 on this chart. "Enemy" also serves as the ninth track on The Definitive Collection, released in 2008.

Enemy (Kristeen Young album)

Enemy is the second studio album by Kristeen Young, recorded and released in 1999.

Enemy

Enemy or foe is an individual or a group that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening. The concept of an enemy has been observed to be "basic for both individuals and communities". The term "enemy" serves the social function of designating a particular entity as a threat, thereby invoking an intense emotional response to that entity. The state of being or having an enemy is enmity, foehood or foeship.

Enemy (The Brilliant Green song)

Enemy is The Brilliant Green's sixteenth single, released in 2007. It peaked at #21 on the Oricon singles chart.

Enemy (2013 film)

Enemy is a 2013 Canadian-Spanish psychological thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve, loosely adapted by Javier Gullón from José Saramago's 2002 novel The Double. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as two men who are physically identical, but different in terms of personality. Mélanie Laurent and Sarah Gadon co-star as the romantic partners of the men. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

Enemy earned five Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Director for Villeneuve, as well as a Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Sarah Gadon and Best Picture. It was named Best Canadian Film of the Year at the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2014.

Enemy (1990 film)

Enemy (also known as Fatal Mission) is a 1990 American action/ adventure film directed by George Rowe and starring Peter Fonda, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

Enemy (2015 film)

Enemy? is a 2015 Konkani film produced by A. Durga Prasad and directed by Dinesh P. Bhonsle who has previously directed Hindi-movie Calapor. The music was composed by Schubert Cotta. The film won the Best Konkani film Award in 63rd National Film Awards, Vigyan Bhawan New Delhi. It has also won the "GOLDEN CAMERA TROPHY AWARD" (Dadasaheb Phalke Janmbhumi Pursakar) at 8th Nashik International Film Festival and was officially selected to be screen at the 21st Kolkata International Film Festival 2015, Goa Marathi Film Festival 2016 and London Indian Film Festival 2016.

Enemy (eSports)

Enemy or NME is a North American esports organization with players and teams in League of Legends, Call of Duty, Smite, and Super Smash Bros. They were originally branded as Enemy eSports. Enemy's League of Legends team competed in the League of Legends Championship Series but has since been relegated to the League of Legends Challenger Series.

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Usage examples of "enemy".

The guns of those ships, being disposed along the sides, were for the most part able to bear only upon an enemy abreast of them, with a small additional angle of train toward ahead or astern.

In his declaration he made rise of the singular pretext, that the more enemies there were against Napoleon there would be the greater chance of speedily obliging him to accede to conditions which would at length restore the tranquillity of which Europe stood so much in need.

Three and a half days later the enemy raced past Zanshaa without firing a missile at Sula or anyone else, and accelerated on a path for the Vandrith gas giant.

The first eight were spent accelerating, and then the blazing antimatter torches were turned toward the enemy and a deceleration began.

Garm Bel Iblis had turned on the invaders like a cornered wampa, and Fleet Group Two was accelerating through the refugee screen to meet the enemy head-on.

Thus, all the while that Galileo was inventing modern physics, teaching mathematics to princes, discovering new phenomena among the planets, publishing science books for the general public, and defending his bold theories against establishment enemies, he was also buying thread for Suor Luisa, choosing organ music for Mother Achillea, shipping gifts of food, and supplying his homegrown citrus fruits, wine, and rosemary leaves for the kitchen and apothecary at San Matteo.

We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which pronounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends.

Those three literati were the Marquis Maffei, the Abbe Conti, and Pierre Jacques Martelli, who became enemies, according to public rumour, owing to the belief entertained by each of them that he possessed the favours of the actress, and, being men of learning, they fought with the pen.

Now was led forth, amidst the insults of his enemies, and the tears of the people, this man of illustrious birth, and of the greatest renown in the nation, to suffer, for his adhering to the laws of his country, and the rights of his sovereign, the ignominious death destined to the meanest malefactor.

But Lucilian had no sooner recovered his spirits, than he betrayed his want of discretion, by presuming to admonish his conqueror that he had rashly ventured, with a handful of men, to expose his person in the midst of his enemies.

When Attila declared his resolution of carrying his victorious arms to the gates of Rome, he was admonished by his friends, as well as by his enemies, that Alaric had not long survived the conquest of the eternal city.

Without depending on prayers or miracles, he boldly armed against the public enemy, and his pastoral letters admonished the Italians of their danger and their duty.

An Indin burial place had been disturbed, the earth was bleeding from the massacre of birds and gators, and the Mikasukis was afeared that bad spirits of their old enemies might be set loose.

I shall smooth out thy frowns with a smile when thou hast heard this: this folk are not only afeard of their old enemies, the devil-led men, but also they fear those whom the devil-led men have driven out of house and home, to wit, the Burgers.

Right now, the action was all afoot, and hand-to-hand, and there was no place for a mounted force to goexcept for the heavy cavalry, who kept trying to plow through the enemy lines without getting trapped behind them.