"No," replied the Dying Man, "I was the
aggressor."
"Then you don't consider the Emperor Alexander the
aggressor?" he asked unexpectedly, with a kindly and foolish smile.
I knew you could not be the
aggressor, and so I told Mr Allworthy, and so he shall acknowledge too, before I have done with him."
He looked up into his
aggressor's face in blank surprise.
Shortly afterwards it was discovered who was the
aggressor; and a general meeting of the chiefs was convened to consider the case.
Of course, Demi tyrannized over Daisy, and gallantly defended her from every other
aggressor, while Daisy made a galley slave of herself, and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world.
Carthage, though a commercial republic, was the
aggressor in the very war that ended in her destruction.
Pickwick as the
aggressor, he set up an appalling and semi- earthly kind of howling, and butting forward with his head, commenced assailing that immortal gentleman about the back and legs, with such blows and pinches as the strength of his arm, and the violence of his excitement, allowed.
Ever was he the
aggressor, and though always he kept his flashing blade between the girl and her enemies, yet he managed to force them hither and thither about the room, calling to the girl to follow close behind him.
Yet, somewhere between these two points, notwithstanding the fact that the
aggressor must have entered the cab either with or without his consent, Mr.
For though it is true that they had killed Tom Jeffry, yet Jeffry was the
aggressor, had broken the truce, and had ill-used a young woman of theirs, who came down to them innocently, and on the faith of the public capitulation.
The Baron was the
aggressor by raising his stick at me."