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Meanings of hereditary enemy in English

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Usage of hereditary enemy in English
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He was frightened now, for the snake is the hereditary enemy of the iguana.
The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia
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In that cat, at the image of its hereditary enemy, certain brain cells vibrate.
The Glands Regulating Personality / A Study of the Glands of Int...
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On the other hand Russia had been her hereditary enemy.
History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
4
He was not only a stranger, but the hereditary enemy.
The History of England / From the Accession of Henry III. to the...
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With them he would crush his hereditary enemy or with them he would die.
The Sheik: A Novel
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For three hundred years France has been our hereditary enemy.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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But the crocodile is his natural and hereditary enemy.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 / Little J...
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Jane, to whom every man was the hereditary enemy!
The Lion's Share
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Forced to submit, the General employed his forces to bring his people into subjection to their hereditary enemy.
The Awakening of China
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France was still the hereditary enemy; and the loss of Calais under Mary had exasperated the whole English nation.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
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Fighting shrewdly against a natural prompting to regard Ormsby as an hereditary enemy, Kent forced himself to be neighborly.
The Grafters
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Achmet's followers were for running a spear through the body of their hereditary enemy; but Achmet would have it otherwise.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
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Shortly, he knew that this hereditary enemy of his would fly to one side of the room or the other.
Mufti
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The French have ceased to be the hereditary enemy, and the Russians have now taken their place in the popular patriotism.
Seven English Cities
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It was such a brilliant victory, such a humiliating defeat of the hereditary enemy, that everywhere in Germany there was hearty rejoicing.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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He was the man of all others in the commonwealth to lead any new enterprise that audacity could conceive against the hereditary enemy.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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