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1 Down-stairs Gertrude and Marcia have had a small skirmish of words.
2 A small skirmish broke-out in the town that night.
3 Still, the victory was a remarkable one, which made Badr look like a small skirmish .
4 God will not do it by piecemeal, God will not do it by small skirmish .
5 There was nothing in them, however, but a small skirmish force, the main body having withdrawn.
6 He had been nursing a hope for at least a small skirmish , if not an outright war.
7 A small skirmish of no real importance.
8 Give her a small skirmish ? The fact that Gabriel had mentioned it at all was reason enough to worry.
9 This was no small skirmish .
10 You see, it was only a small skirmish ; some mad mullah of a fellow became a paid agitator among the natives.
11 On July 18th they began to close in upon Rustenburg again, and a small skirmish took place between them and the Australians.
12 It provides a global conflict instead of small skirmishes .
13 Oh, they had occasional small skirmishes among themselves.
14 A U.S. military spokesman said there had been small skirmishes and some minor casualties had been reported.
15 As far as the Beresina, our march was only a succession of small skirmishes and terrible sufferings.
16 Methuen moved about incessantly through the broken country, winning small skirmishes and suffering the indignity of continual sniping.
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