Potential Titles: Contend

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That must contend to the dark and bitter end - Charles Wm. Butler "North and South" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.2, Feb. 1864]

Contending always with the fog - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

For some rich prize they now contend - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Yacht-Race"

Contending with the grass - Emily Dickinson "Book 1: Nature XIV: Purple Clover"

Bickering counsel of contending kings - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"

To raise contending passions in the heart - "The Druriad" [1798]

When Shakespear bids contending passions wage - "The Druriad" [1798]

Contending with the sun - Andrew Feld "Description of Seas, Waters, Rivers, &c."

Wild dogs and wolves with hungry snarl contend - Judas Hallevy bar Samuel [Judah Halevi] "The Burden of Sion" transl. by Joseph Mainzer and adapted by Delta [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXVI, v.LIX, Apr. 1846]

Ever-varying skies contend - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Contending with the flies - George Meredith "The Discipline of Wisdom"

The storms of deep contending passions - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton "The Undying One, Canto I"

Exhibit Power contending still with Waste - B. Simmons "The Curse of Glencoe" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXXVII, v.LIII, Jan. 1843]

The battle of contending skies - George Sterling "The Testimony of the Suns"

The challenge of contending suns - George Sterling "War's Music"

The only way to contend with night - Dalia Taha "Enter Terror"

Force him to contend with stillness - C. Dale Young "Curio"

Forced to contend with gravity - C. Dale Young "The Sixth Sense"


Awaked to war the long-contending foes - George Crabbe "The Library"


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