"He would stop this bloody strife that must eventually annihilate both Kalkar and Yank."

These, after all, were the years, memorialized in Shakespeare's history plays, when the crown changed hands a half dozen times during decades of bloody civil strife known as the Wars of the Roses.

He used the event to contribute to the drawing of a line under an old world that pitched his homeland into regular bouts of bloody strife.

Under each is a printed line of faux-Victorian poetry, like "Let me lift them one by one" and a short list of countries known for bloody political strife (Johnson).

With no leadership and no capacity to govern themselves, formerly Portuguese Mozambique and Angola fell into bloody strife, and in Angola, it continues today.

The accompanying conflict (the Irish War of Independence) cost up to 500 lives in Belfast, the bloodiest sectarian strife in the city until the Troubles of the late 1960s onwards.

Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought It was both impious and unnatural That such immanity and bloody strife Should reign among professors of one faith.

Perhaps I can help show them attitudes that will serve them something better than their old ideals of bitter conquest, cruel barbarity, and bloody strife.

And Inkatha and the A.N.C. have a history of bloody strife in what is now KwaZulu/Natal province in eastern South Africa, on the Indian Ocean.

Instantly a global celebrity, it took four years of negotiations and bloody strife between ethnic factions before he came to power at the helm of the Rainbow Nation.