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Delicate Thoughts Tonya Redd	Takes influence with the contention of his love for her Each day she continues to be met by the defiance of her...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
'Got-a-Fag' Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	he voiced one bold contention - That the absence of wire fences marked a lack of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
'Look at The Clock!' : Patty Morgan The Milkmaid's Story Richard Harris Barham	This self-same Clock had long been a bone Of contention between this Darby and Joan; And often among their pother and rout, When this otherwise...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
'Paw' Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	Why, he held to the contention That this most convenient pension Was a thing he hadn't any raight to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue between Old England and New Anne Bradstreet	62 Whose proud contention cause this slaughter; 63 Nor Nobles siding to make John no King, 64 French Louis unjustly...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Few Remarks on Goats, Asses and the Dead Hand Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	The contention that the hind end of a horse can in any way assist the fore end of a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Piccaninny James Brunton Stephens	And thou the bone of all the fierce contention— The direful spring of broken-nosed dissension— A Helen in the nigger...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Adieu To A Solider Walt Whitman	The hot contention of opposing fronts--the long manoeuver, Red battles with their slaughter,--the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear Robert Burns	A man of strife ye've born me: For sair contention I maun bear; They hate, revile, and scorn...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aleksandre Pushkin about the love translate 1 John Templeton	I asked: whether a contention demon `d Your hand derisively...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Actor Ambrose Bierce	And gentlemen below, with hisses loud, In hot contention (these his art to crown, And those his naked nastiness to drown) Make such a din that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Banjo Bister Khicka Say Neigh	One Champion, with two categories in contention to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bone Of contention Sia Mariti	What is the bone of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cadland, Southampton River William Lisle Bowles	From East to West, from Albis to the Po, Of dark contention hurtles), may'st thou rest, As calm and beautiful this sylvan scene Looks on the refluent...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 02 Sa di	Will raise many a quarrel and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 06 On Weakness And Old Age Story 09 Sa di	Such fighting and contention arose between man and wife That the affair came before the qazi; and Sa’di said: ‘After...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 12 Sa di	and faces, giving full vent to pugnacity and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 07 On The Effects Of Education Story 20 Sa di	Contention of Sa’di with a Disputant concerning Wealth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Admonition 05 Sa di	Between two men contention is like fire, The ill-starred back-biter being the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ch 08 On Rules For Conduct In Life - Maxim 52 Sa di	the hearts of two persons and their feet of contention will not emerge from the mire: a merchant with a wrecked ship and a youth sitting with...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cheaters Prosper Elegy Jacob "Sufferance" Bowen	Certainly my works should be in contention Honestly how can they be...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Custer: Book Second Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Has vexed the earth and made contention rife Because of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Don’t Tell Me I’m Sweet Ashley Walker	For this fools gold has brought me nothing but contention and strife See it’s been 29 years of walking on this orbit of opportunity 29 I’ve been...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Edwardian Drama Robert Haigh	And all of the others fell out of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
For whom the Bell Tolls John Donne	There was a contention as far as a suit (in which both piety and dignity, religion and estimation,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)