These are merely the vicissitudes of the great contention we are engaged in.

Even if we should settle this great contention about slavery to-day, other questions might afterward arise.

Mr Ahern added that it was "not a matter of great contention" among the parties.

His body was burned with much pomp, and great contention arose for the unconsumed fragments of bone.

And when there had been a great contention and barbaric wrangling between them, they attacked each other.

It reads thus:-Brothers ,wehave heard of the unhappy differences and great contention between you and Old England.

The great contention of criticism is to find the faults of the moderns, and the beauties of the ancients.

Cassio lays stress upon 'the great contention of the sea and skies'; but when Othello meets Desdemona, he cries:

He was indeed eminently qualified by his situation as well as by his personal qualities to be the umpire in that great contention.

And, when all is said, it is no great contention, since, by her own avowal, she began to love me on the morrow.

This King Mark refused to do, and there was great contention betwixt Cornwall and Ireland, so that each country made ready for war.

But the greatest contention in all their debates was on the question of Cicero's case.

Great contentions, separations, and confusions in our religious state prevail in many parts of the land.

Great contention arose therefrom, much knavery, much disillusion; finally the whole had to be wiped out.

These orders occasioned great contentions between the papists and reformed Bohemians, which was the cause of a violent persecution against the latter.

19:3 And the lesser part began to breathe out threatenings against the king, and there began to be a great contention among them.