He sought a home among the Philistines and helped them in their wars.
Poor mammy will mourn over me and coddle me up as if I'd been to the wars.
Mrs. Garbutt had been twice married, her husbands having been sailors during the Napoleonic wars.
All our family renown was acquired--all our family misfortunes were occasioned--by the northern wars.
The religious wars had led to laxity and carelessness; drunkenness and vice were fearfully prevalent.
The Senecas are a seemly, quiet people, and they'd had trouble enough from white men--American and English--during the wars, to keep 'em in that walk.
But one may well be astonished at the generosity of Vespasian and Titus, that after so great wars and contests which they had from us, they should use such moderation.
The princess and her brothers resumed their journey, this time towards the sunrise, and at last arrived in their own country, where they met their father, returning from the wars.
The Imperial funds were by this time, however, so taxed by wars and other difficulties that the tables could only be proceeded with very slowly, a staff of calculators being out of the question.