Significados de tried conclusions en inglés

One or two even tried conclusions with me, but once only.

If I tried conclusions with him, I could break him in two notwithstanding his staff.

Within half a century, they have four times tried conclusions with the might of Britain.

They tried conclusions in repartee, sparred for points, and amused the company by hot arguments and wordy pyrotechnics.

But twice before he had tried conclusions with Diggle and come off best: why should fortune fail him again?

Somehow, every time the magic of fol-de-rol tried conclusions with the magic of science, the magic of fol-de-rol got left.

In several notable instances the privateersmen tried conclusions with ships that flew the royal ensign, and got the better of them.

At that game they were my masters; it would have been folly to have tried conclusions with them with their own weapons.

Their artillerymen had three times tried conclusions with the American gunners, and each time they had been forced to acknowledge themselves worsted.

If Reed Opdyke tried conclusions with black powder and with lumps of loosened rock, he was laid on his back, with uncompromising promptness.