She sank on her nature's desire to join or witness agonistic incidents, shocks, wrestlings, the adventures which are brilliant air to sanguine energies.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Moreover, most of the burrows were only a few feet apart and no agonistic behavior was witnessed.
"Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula"
Erwin E. Klaas
On the whole, I sometimes hope we have now done with Fanatics and agonistic Posture-makers in this poor world: it will be an immense improvement on the Past; and the "New Ideas," as Alcott calls them, will prosper greatly the better on that account!
"The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II."
Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson