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1 This looks like a preliminary skirmish which will wind up on Thursday.
2 This was the last shot in this preliminary skirmish .
3 The episode of 1914 had been a preliminary skirmish .
4 Then as a preliminary skirmish , Constance presented the two-franc piece; and the jailoress dropped a curtsy.
5 Then as a preliminary skirmish , Constance presented the two-franc piece; and the jailoress dropped a courtesy.
6 The smoking ban was just a preliminary skirmish .
7 Stoddard bade him keep still, and we soon had our hands full with a preliminary skirmish .
8 This was merely a preliminary skirmish , and you must prepare to bear your part in what follows.
9 Several lives were lost on this preliminary skirmish , the honours of which remained with the soldiers of Narses.
10 In some preliminary skirmish a son of Queen Esther had been slain, and now her fury knew no limits.
11 This was the preliminary skirmish .
12 Austin and San Antonio were decided on as headquarters and banking points, and we started out on a preliminary skirmish .
13 It was the week when politics won - not a permanent and final victory but success in a significant preliminary skirmish .
14 This, after all, was no more than a preliminary skirmish , although it was one that afforded them the key to the situation.
15 He did not admit defeat now, but he saw he had, for some reason, not gained any advantage in a preliminary skirmish .
16 Both the Socialist and Agnostic frankly confess that the demolition of the sects is but a preliminary skirmish : the real battle lies farther afield.
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