fighting
/ˈfaɪ.tɪŋ/ adjective C2- Engaged in war or other conflict.
- Apt to provoke a fight.
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“For the sake of fighting!”
They replied, “We would willingly have helped you, if we had not known who you were, and with whom you were fighting.”
Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separating before one had well beaten the other.
“I happen to know who is the first link in his chain—a chain with this Napoleon-gone-wrong at one end, and a hundred broken fighting men, pickpockets, blackmailers, and card sharpers at the other, with every sort of crime in between.
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