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Meanings of first skirmish in anglès

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Usage of first skirmish in anglès
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So the Jackson boys had luck with them in their first skirmish.
Historic Boyhoods
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Although defeated in the first skirmish, the Grant forces pressed forward for renewed conflict.
The United States Since the Civil War
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They had heard the firing on the first skirmish line.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
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Mursi appeared to have stolen a march on the army, in their first skirmish.
Reuters
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What Belinda and Lorraine faced now would only be the first skirmish of many.
The pretender's crown
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Boyd, however, was never one to be defeated in a first skirmish of wills.
Ride Proud, Rebel!
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Well, you've won out in the first skirmish, my dear.
Red-Robin
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From the first skirmish the adversary had retired with all the honors on her side.
The Firefly of France
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Take what we can get in our first skirmish.
The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
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When four weeks passed without a word the first skirmish between love and pride began.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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The success of our first skirmish surpassed our expectations.
Castles in the Air
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She will come to her senses after the shock of the first skirmish is over.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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Here in this first skirmish is an epitome of all our military relations with these people.
The Great Boer War
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This day brought to Paul the first skirmish of that long and wearisome warfare called marriage.
The Marriage Contract
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It was as though a soldier after his first skirmish should congratulate himself on being bullet-proof.
Robert Elsmere
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What is ended, is only the first skirmish.
The Uprising of a Great People / The United States in 1861. to W...
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