Usage examples for warlike
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The captain ordered the people to throw the quarter- deck guns, and all the arms and warlike stores overboard, which they did. – Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by William O. S. Gilly
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The speech of our rude and warlike ancestors thus gradually improved, as Christianity, civilization, and knowledge, advanced the arts of life in Britain; and, as early as the tenth century, it became a language capable of expressing all the sentiments of a civilized people. – The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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He could not admire anything, even peace, without wanting to be warlike about it. – Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton