mortal combat

Yet here were the two Residents locked in mortal combat.

Maybe they were locked somewhere in mortal combat or something.

They seemed eternally on the point of mortal combat with each other.

He'd lost the eye, long ago, in mortal combat beneath the earth.

The old and new definitions are so opposed as to be in mortal combat.

Have I come here once more to meet a fiend in mortal combat?

The two began to wrestle, to engage in mortal combat.

"All the language has been hijacked by people we're in mortal combat against," he said.

And he was talking about ordinary civil litigation, not mortal combat with the government.

They wage mortal combat on all others of the species from outside the colony.

But otherwise, if these people want mortal combat let's give them just that."

These two great contending armies were meeting in almost mortal combat.

No, the challenger's honor could not be satisfied with anything less than mortal combat.

"You have come to challenge me in mortal combat."

I would not want to be forced to engage you in mortal combat."

By now these two fighters would already have joined in mortal combat or parted.

Jessie and her mother, Thelma, spend the next 90 minutes of their lives in mortal combat.

It was more like mortal combat than giving birth.

Just like mortal combat, this struggle has casualties and needs more recruits.

Armies of his imagining rose to challenge each other to mortal combat.

They were useful in their way; as practice, and to fire men's spirits on the eve of mortal combat.

More dead air, empty rooms that echoed with the sounds of mortal combat from outside.

Where the knight in everyone was fostered, setting the stage for a mortal combat.

When gladiators met in mortal combat, there were no rules except those a man made for himself.