Battle worthy
capable of engaging in combat; ready for battle:
a decline in the nation’s battleworthy forces.
historical examples
only when the choice lies between two heavens—the selfish and the unselfish—is the battle worthy the fighting!
idolatry julian hawthorne
i present the battle of heroes,–a battle worthy of the muse of homer.
beacon lights of history, volume v john lord
count wasaburg, a natural son of gustavus adolphus, showed himself in this battle worthy of his descent.
the thirty years war, complete friedrich schiller
all the battle worthy the name for the southern cause at gettysburg on the 2d and 3d was made by longstreet.
lee and longstreet at high tide helen d. longstreet
then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that rue de la chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of troy.
les misrables victor hugo
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