Up and down, the two well-matched opponents dive incessantly.
The Cardinal would have enjoyed a fight vastly with two or three opponents; but a half-dozen made discretion better than valour.
His honesty, good faith, and simplicity were generally acknowledged, and disarmed the political rancor of the strongest opponents.
They were not opponents from different far-off sections fighting, but near neighbors, and nothing seemed too awful or too cruel for them to do.
If we assume with Mr. Sinclair, and most of his opponents, that news and truth are two words for the same thing, we shall, I believe, arrive nowhere.
It is commonly said among the gauchos that when a man has proved his prowess by killing a few of his opponents, he is thereafter permitted to live in peace.
He had no farther serious difficulty with the opponents of his policy, though he was always under apprehensions that difficulties might arise after his death.
A strong bid had been made by the opponents of assumption for the five votes of Pennsylvania by the offer to locate the capital for fifteen years at Philadelphia.
So strong was the sentiment that the Constitution must be accepted in some form, that its opponents in the state convention did not venture upon immediate rejection.