The turbulent republic had recently almost dissolved in fratricidal civil war. From Wordnik.com. [Some Aspects of the Public Service] Reference
I say "fratricidal" knowing this word for years seemed more applicable to the Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [A Big Job Opening] Reference
What else do you call a fratricidal war?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Civil war has often been described as fratricidal. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The horrors of that fratricidal war are now history. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] Reference
Union, and check the fratricidal blow of the disunionist. From Wordnik.com. [Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post] Reference
The Germans counted on the fratricidal feud between Poles and. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
For one thing, fratricidal conflicts still tear at our world. From Wordnik.com. [Vp Remarks At Chornobyl Museum Kiev] Reference
Blood red, veils his face with a twilight; on strife fratricidal. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
War was now brooding over Canada -- the fratricidal War of 1812. From Wordnik.com. [A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861] Reference
Hellas was again lit up with the fires of the fratricidal strife. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
You've said in the past that fratricidal wars are destroying Africa. From Wordnik.com. [‘It Sits On Your Conscience’] Reference
It helped to plunge America into the bloody and fratricidal Civil War. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Blackwell: Frederick Douglass in Annapolis, Philip Reid in the Capitol] Reference
All fierce addresses to the passions, on either side, are fratricidal. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Then a pause, and over land and sea hang dark clouds of fratricidal war. From Wordnik.com. [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference
We look forward to the termination of the fratricidal wars and conflicts on the. From Wordnik.com. [SUMMARY OF THE STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE OCCASION OF THE 81st ANNIVERSARY OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS] Reference
We reiterate the position of our movement that this fratricidal carnage must end. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS] Reference
Then will "the heavens be lit with the lurid flames of worse than fratricidal war!". From Wordnik.com. [The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan. A Full Expose. By A Late Member] Reference
Stalinist North Korea had triggered a fratricidal war that led to the death of millions. From Wordnik.com. [AN ARMY ADRIFT] Reference
There is, then, a greater evil than war, even than civil war, with its red, fratricidal hands?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
Subway series is an innocuous title for what, traditionally, has been a fratricidal civic rivalry. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Go To The Videotape] Reference
The fratricidal nature of civil war is thus given literal form as brother takes arm against brother. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Minus the Blarney] Reference
Twenty years ago, I was covering the highly flammable terrain in El Salvador's fratricidal political war. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Bronstein: Is Live-Tweeting About Rape in Haiti a Wake-Up Call or a Mistake?] Reference
We might even find here, ready to hand, the elements of a fratricidal drama, were we in any other country than. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They did so in 1964, at a fratricidal convention that thunderously booed Nelson Rockefeller's podium appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Relaxation By Exhaustion] Reference
On reappearing Theseus promised to convey the sisters back to Thebes and to stop the threatened fratricidal strife. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
The party he left behind is torn by fratricidal strife – real fratricidal strife in the case of the Miliband family. From Wordnik.com. [The book that has the Tories running scared] Reference
It was the "accursed politicians" who had led them into such a fratricidal strife who were the objects of our maledictions. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
In trying to do right by Collins and illuminate the hornet's nest of fratricidal Irish history, he's made his most conventional film. From Wordnik.com. [Slouching Toward Mayhem] Reference
I received a gratifying evidence that this fratricidal war had not destroyed all kindly feelings between former friends and messmates. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
Meanwhile the fratricidal strife between the kindred nations came to an end -- never, let us hope, while the world stands, to be renewed. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
In Lincoln's inaugural address will be found the passage about the sad singularity of the two contendants in the fratricidal combat being. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
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