"Belligerency" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... involved so many highly technical questions that it is impossible to do more than touch upon them in the present connection. Diplomatic discussions centred about such questions as the validity of the blockade established by President Lincoln, the recognition by England of Confederate belligerency, the Trent affair, and the responsibility of England for the depredations committed by the Alabama and other Confederate cruisers. When the United States first demanded reparation for the damage inflicted on American commerce by the Confederate cruisers, the British ...
— From Isolation to Leadership, Revised - A Review of American Foreign Policy • John Holladay Latane
... girl's lips harden. I could see her fortifying herself behind an entrenchment of quietly marshaled belligerency. ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... either ax, cant-dog, iron-shod peavey-stick, or cross-cut saw; and the moonshine flashed on the steel surfaces. It was plain that the party viewed its expedition as an opportunity for reckless roistering, and spirits had added a spur to the natural boisterous belligerency of the woodsmen. ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day
... of her late husband, yet that little was of a sufficiently awe-inspiring character to satisfy the curiosity of Laurel Spring. A man of unswerving animosity and candid belligerency, untempered by any human weakness, he had been actively engaged as survivor in two or three blood feuds in Kentucky, and some desultory dueling, only to succumb, through the irony of fate, to an attack of fever and ague in San Francisco. ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... with an eye which gleamed with a hint of latent possibilities of belligerency. "Mr. Cleggett," she continued, pursing her lips, "I have sought an interview to warn you that you are harboring ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis |
