How To Use Warlike In A Sentence

Pyrrhus," said he, "the Romans are said to be good soldiers, and to rule over many warlike nations. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies. Our Village
Once upon a time it was a natural and unavoidable element in the relations of every married couple; just as it was natural and unavoidable, once upon a time, that the unwarlike and commercially-minded burghers of a mediæval city should bargain with a neighbouring and predatory baron to keep at bay – for a consideration – other barons no less predatory but a little less neighbouring. Marriage as a Trade
The Government has decided the nature of service for Operation Falconer is warlike for the purpose of conditions of service entitlements.
Although the Egyptians were warlike, they found times for peaceful games.

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The Fang, the most prevalent and warlike of these tribes, predominated.
With the departure of the Romans, the British Isles were invaded by a succession of warlike peoples from the European mainland, including the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; there were also persistent Danish raids.
Even though the Egyptians were warlike, they found time for peaceful games.
The Normans; or rather the private adventurers of that warlike people, who founded a powerful kingdom in Apulia and Sicily, shook the throne of Constantinople, displayed the trophies of chivalry, and almost realized the wonders of romance. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Suddenly, and as it were without warning, we are confronted by a fierce and warlike nation, for whom it is a paramount moral obligation to refrain from the participatory heathen cults by which they were surrounded on all sides; for whom moreover precisely that moral obligation is conceived as the very foundation of the race, the very marrow of its being. Sources of Theology in Job « Unknowing
Truly, "warlike, manly courage and devotion to duty" seem the flowers that flourish hereaway. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
American soldiers committed, their demeanor has been warlike, which is not perceived by the occupied populace as reassuring or secure, but as frightening and dangerous. Jane Smiley: The End is Nigh
She might have added Spenser's Britomart, whose name indicates both her patriotism and her warlike character.
Disencumbered of its books, the feudal turret had become warlike again and that Guer-mantes was more himself in death — he was more of his breed, a Guermantes and nothing more and this was symbolised at his funeral in the church of Saint-Hilaire-de-Combray hung with black draperies where the “G” under the closed coronet divested of initials and titles betokened the race of Guermantes which he personified in death. Time Regained
It is not likely that this selfish and unwarlike pedant -- a "nithing", as they probably called him -- had ever been aught but a most unwelcome necessity to the lion-hearted Ostrogoths, and for all but the families and friends of the three slain noblemen, the imprisonment and the permitted murder of his benefactress must have deepened dislike into horror. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
Condemning what the UDPS termed the lethargy of the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in the conflict, and the "delays and excuses of the belligerents," the UDPS noted "with concern inflammatory and warlike statements that reduce the chances of peace. ANC Daily News Briefing
Costly take with warlike machine joking, can quits people is estimated to giant national defence criticism.
The industrial forces are opposed to the warlike policy of the present Prime Minister.
It may well be doubted, on an impartial view, if the mutilation of the country's industrial system by such measures of isolation does not after all rather weaken the nation even for warlike ends; but then, the discretionary authorities in the dynastic States are always, and it may be presumed necessarily, hampered with obsolete theories handed down from that cameralistic age, when the little princes of the Fatherland were making dynastic history. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
When by any accident they had met at church, market, or other place of public resort, she remembered the distant and respectful air with which the wife of the warlike baron was addressed by the spouse of the humble feuar. The Monastery
That the Temple was of a _religious_, and not of a warlike nature, is proved by its ditch being withinside the agger of earth, contrary to the mode adopted in works of defence. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
He was awarded a distinguished performance of duties in warlike operations.
Some of the warlike clans among the Irish were constantly engaging the British along the border of the Pale.
I do think that we have to take action, warlike action on those who've taken action on us.
Unfortunately, it mimics its own unwarlike Italian soldiers by paddling in the shallows of fun and prettiness, ignoring war, death and drama for as long as possible.
And he flung open the door and entered with the most severe and warlike expression, armed cap-a-pie as it were, with lance couched and plumes displayed, and glancing at his adversary, as if to say, The History of Pendennis
It can no longer present its warlike policies as being in accordance with the political will of the whole nation.
This city is said to be the mother-city of all the other Ethiopians: and they who dwell in it reverence of the gods Zeus and Dionysos alone, and these they greatly honour; and they have an Oracle of Zeus established, and make warlike marches whensoever this god commands them by prophesyings and to whatsoever place he commands. The History of Herodotus
It has often been said, perhaps unfairly, that they are a warlike nation/people.
At earliest dawn on September 16 our whole Brigade, preceded by a squadron of Bengal Lancers, marched in warlike formation into the Mamund Valley and was soon widely spread over its extensive area. Archive 2004-11-28
This ended his cruise among the Caribbean Islands, the inhabitants of which he described as cannibals, and the most warlike people hitherto met with. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
Next, as to armaments: Will you present a greater terror to the foe if you appear furnished yourself from head to foot with bright emlazonrie and horrent arms; 200 or rather by reason of the warlike aspect of a whole city perfectly equipped? Hiero
Personnel are not to travel to countries where there are warlike operations.
And in greater presens, to beare a braue looke: to be warlike, though he neuer looked enimie in the face in warre: yet som warlike signe must be vsed, either a slouinglie busking, or an ouerstaring frounced hed, as though out of euerie heeres toppe, should suddenlie start out a good big othe, when nede requireth, yet praised be God, England hath at The Scholemaster
As my older readers may recollect, a great favourite of the Left in the 1970s was the ‘Tasaday’ - a ‘lost’ primitive tribe in the Philippines that was found to be very gentle and unwarlike.
But although composed in the midst of the Great War, they betray little warlike influence, reflecting instead his discovery of the climate and colour of sun-kissed Provence.
Pindarus, of Thebes, is as much renowned for his poems, as Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Hercules or Bacchus, his fellow citizens, for their warlike actions; et si famam respicias, non pauciores Aristotelis quam Anatomy of Melancholy
Valentinian, encompassed with the eagles of the legions, and the various banners of the cavalry and infantry, was conducted, in warlike pomp, to the palace of Nice. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
My memory does not serve me so as to enable me to state, whether the Acdazeer's visit to Java was before or after the promulgation of the law prohibiting ships with opium and warlike stores entering any of the ports of Netherlands India; but I think it was _before_ that regulation was made public. Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.
To be sure, the acts of that day had a warlike aspect.
Instead it sets its value on the ‘individual, hence its unwarlike character since war is essentially a collective activity’.
Isa 3: 12; Ec 10: 16). babes -- in warlike might; antithesis to "the mighty" and "man of war. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
But the orders of service of war, beyng altogether corrupted, and a greate waie from the auncient maners altered, there hath growen these sinisterous opinions, which maketh men to hate the warlike service, and to flie the conversacion of those that dooe exercise it. Machiavelli, Volume I
Mantotte, on the northwest coast, near Adam's Bridge, became the great place of debarcation; and here successive bands of marauders landed time after time without meeting any effectual resistance from the unwarlike Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
Both involved mounted combat with lances; the former was a peaceful joust, using blunted lances and seeking to score points by splintering lances, the latter was a warlike joust, using pointed lances with unhorsing the principal aim.
They made warlike preparations and decided to strike at the first opportunity.
Thus little in Othello violates the impression of a soft, unwarlike culture.
When he assumed power in 27 BC, Augustus was confronted with the problem of subduing the Alpine region, whose warlike tribes threatened the communications between Italy and Gaul.
But as regards the warlike, that is to say dynastic, interest of an Imperial government the case stands somewhat different. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
Now warlike pursuits are altogether incompatible with the duties of a bishop and a cleric, for two reasons. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land.
Beside this door were crowns, sceptres, banners, all sorts of patents and commissions, and all kinds of heraldric and warlike arms. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
She is warlike and aggressive, not submissive and unassertive.
Columbus first descried the continent; there terminate these valleys, laid waste alternately by the warlike anthropophagic Carib and by the commercial and polished nations of Europe. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
As though in answer, and from an entirely different direction, there was a fanfarade of trumpets, menacing, warlike. Dwellers in the Mirage
“The anchorite whom I would now visit,” said the warlike pilgrim, “is, I have heard, no priest; but were he of that anointed and sacred order, I would prove with my good lance, against paynim and infidel —” The Talisman
The direct cultural value of a warlike business policy is unequivocal. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
Tacitus described them as a strong and warlike nation.
They are large, muscular people, with a warlike and aggressive culture.
The royal horseman bestrides a warlike steed, which is trampling under foot the figure of a turbanned Turk. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
An ancient music critic, Aristides Quintilianus, calls the salpinx “a warlike and terrifying instrument,” “masculine” and “vehement.” The Battle of Salamis
Political leaders were more honest about the warlike nature of nations a hundred years ago.
They were warlike and aggressive, and had conquered a large part of the … Magellanic Cloud. Objective: Bajor
Spenser's art) 7 The warlike beech; the ash for nothing ill; warlike > (Because war-chariots in antiquity were reputedly made of beech) 8 The fruitful olive; and the platan round; platan > plane-tree The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
It was in the promontory of Paria that Columbus first descried the continent; there terminate these valleys, laid waste alternately by the warlike anthropophagic Carib and by the commercial and polished nations of Europe. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
The president's inaugural address talks about all sorts of possibilities for this country, not just warlike ones but peaceful ones.
Small wonder if their son grew up with a taste for chivalrous pursuits, warlike deeds and sometimes foolhardy enterprise.
But the "warlike Christian man" who actually came to furnish the firing line for Virginia, was destined to be the Scotch-Irishman and the German with long rifle in place of "fuzee" and "simeter," and altogether too restless to have his continual abode within the space of two hundred acres. The Frontier in American History
Next, as to armaments: Will you present a greater terror to the foe if you appear furnished yourself from head to foot with bright emlazonrie and horrent arms; or rather by reason of the warlike aspect of a whole city perfectly equipped? Hiero
warlike policies
It has often been said, perhaps unfairly, that they are a warlike nation/people.
Morris perused the documents in the chilly gloom of the countinghouse: among them was a printed copy of the Prohibitory Act, a new law passed by Parliament just before Christmas in retaliation for the warlike posture of the colonies. Robert Morris
The most warlike of the infantry were the independent swordsmen who came down from Rhodope; the rest of the mixed multitude that followed him being chiefly formidable by their numbers. The History of the Peloponnesian War
None can face the great _acharya_ in his wrath and warlike might! Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse
But an airship from the warlike kingdom of Tolmekia comes crashing into the Valley with a mysterious and deadly cargo. Movie Review: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Ensignes with other warlike and ioyfull behaviours, expressing by these outward signes, the inward gladnesse of their mindes, being all as ready to ioyne together in mutuall consent to resist the cruel enemie, as now in sporting maner they made myrth and pastyme among themselues. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
A spindly old man produced a bagpipe and blew it in competition with the flutist, beginning in wild, warlike tones and ending with an ignominious splutter and hiss.
The welfare of the tribe or of the nation has clearly depended in warlike ages on the number of adult males capable of bearing arms that it could mobilise for every tribal or national emergency. Militarism versus Feminism: An Enquiry and a Policy Demonstrating that Militarism involves the Subjection of Women
In the small, slave-owning and warlike Greek republics, all free men had a say in government.
Once the forbidding territory of the warlike Mackenzie clan, the estate land was acquired in the 19th century by the Earl of Zetland.
In Gregory's narrative the Thuringians appear as dupes for the more sophisticated and warlike Franks.
These cultures were not usually warlike (except in dire circumstances) and have been described as egalitarian because there was little hierarchy, even in terms of gender. Elizabeth Debold: What Do Women Want? Again...
The secretive machinery set up to serve warlike purposes still patterns much of our research and innovation processes today.
The spirit of industrialism, which is indefatigably active in the development of trade relations, undermines the warlike spirit.
People call this very warlike tribe the Ubiquitarians, who think it a disgrace to expire in bed, but right splendid to die in arms.
The country's warlike policies are not only directed against foes abroad but also at home.
The proud, dauntless, and warlike spirit of Eteocles which is designed and drawn with inconceivable power, is beautifully characterized in his reply to the above description: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
Ages of oppression and poverty rarely produce proud and warlike spirits.
Euery one of them departed home; likewise Hugh of Tabaria departed, being a chiefe man of warre against the inuasions of the enemies, which could neuer be wearied day nor night in the countie of the Pagans, in pursuing them with warre and warlike stratagemes all the dayes of his life. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
And in the meane season by blinde and hidden passages vnder the earth, assembling themselues they came against the Tartars in warlike manner, and suddenly issuing forth, they slewe a great number of them. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
Lakhdar Boumediene himself, for example, was seized while completely unarmed and not engaged in warlike acts in Bosnia based on intelligence that implicated him in planning to bomb an embassy. The Volokh Conspiracy » Defamation by Government Still Political Question
Not, surely, in the death of Ferdinand the Warlike; not, surely, in the old, half-forgotten revanche for Alsace-Lorraine; not even in the neutrality of Belgium. DARKWATER
Aeneas was our king, foremost of men in righteousness, incomparable in goodness as in warlike arms; whom if fate still preserves, if he draws the breath of heaven and lies not yet low in dispiteous gloom, fear we have none; nor mayest thou repent of challenging the contest of service. The Aeneid of Virgil
They belong to the great Arawakan linguistic stock, to which along belong the warlike The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
All these together with the residue aforenamed were furnished and beautified with trumpets, streamers, banners, warlike ensignes, and other such like ornaments. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The well-known reciprocal relation between a despotic orientation and the warlike tendencies of a group rests on this formal basis: war needs a centralistic intensification of the group form, and this is guaranteed best by despotism. Conflict and The Web of Group-Affiliations
If the Mountain wished to win in parliament, it should not appeal to arms; if it called to arms in parliament, it should not conduct itself parliamentarily on the street; if the friendly demonstration was meant seriously, it was silly not to foresee that it would meet with a warlike reception; if it was intended for actual war, it was rather original to lay aside the weapons with which war had to be conducted. Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
England, might soon reinvolve her in hostilities with that country and with Scotland; and it consequently became a point of policy with her to animate by means of military spectacles, graced with her royal presence and encouragement, the warlike preparations of her subjects. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
Baptiste had evidently quelled the more warlike of his followers, and instead of precipitating an attack in the bright light of day, the shot had caused a hasty exodus, the Indians drawing out of the village beyond the zone of fire. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
But these restraints may yet be useful for dynastic, that is to say warlike, ends by making the country more nearly a "self-contained economic whole. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
Who more gladly than we throughout the Four Nations received the ` bloody sword, 'or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King? Dracula
According to the historian, Western Europe during the so-called Age of Faith was the most warlike civilization on earth.
Worsening relations between expansionist France and the warlike Fon of the West African kingdom of Dahomey came to a head in 1890.
Warlike actions are completely so (for no one chooses to be at war, or provokes war, for the sake of being at war; any one would seem absolutely murderous if he were to make enemies of his friends in order to bring about battle and slaughter); but the action of the statesman is also unleisurely, and-apart from the political action itself-aims at despotic power and honours, or at all events happiness, for him and his fellow citizens-a happiness different from political action, and evidently sought as being different. The Nicomachean Ethics
She is warlike and aggressive, not submissive and unassertive.
But it also fitted all too easily the preconceptions of some of the peace movement that the US was an aggressive and warlike power. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
As they drew near the inclosure, the Aztecs set up a hideous yell, or rather that shrill whistle used in fight by the nations of Anahuac, which rose far above the sound of shell and atabal, and their other rude instruments of warlike melody. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes
Tina Percival," said Miss Asphyxia, in warlike tones, "do you speak out plain, or I 'll box yer ears. Oldtown Folks
Costly take with warlike machine joking, can quits people is estimated to giant national defence criticism.
The loser, laying aside all warlike intentions, will have to retire to the forest with his party forever.
‘bloody sword,’ or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King? Dracula
Nations received the 'bloody sword,' or at its warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King? Dracula
Lastly, we cannot ignore the tensions in the Gulf, where a warlike situation exists.
Military planes flew over the country in a warlike action.
As an island nation, and at times a pretty warlike one, it should come as no real surprise to find that Britain has some of the finest and most dramatic coastal castles and fortifications in the world.
In Henry V, the warlike speeches are also intercut with reaction shots.

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