It was work for the thinker, the scholar, but work which must have the fighting blood.

I will not have the fighting pits reopened.

Several army officers said Iraqi forces were demoralized and do not have the fighting stamina of ISIL fighters.

We can't defend here; there isn't even a wall that goes all round, and we don't have the fighting men.

He had the fighting nose, over-long and hooked like an eagle's beak.

Oh, my poor lad that has the fighting blood in his veins!

He has the fighting spirit of an English side.'

Jill was shaken: but she had the fighting spirit and hated to show that she was shaken.

So what has the fighting been about?

How has the fighting gone elsewhere?

'Oh, he had the fighting monk for his master!'

Bill had been tall and lean; Hal was compact and solid, and he had the fighting agility of a starved coyote.

Daniel Ricciardo's first season with Renault crashed to a new low in Hungary but the Aussie has shown he still has the fighting spirit.

Never since those years of battle between France and Austria has the fighting been characterized by such animosity, such fierce fury on both sides.

"He may have got back to China, Doctor!" he cried, and his eyes had the fighting glint in them.