faction fight

He lost the State, and with it the election, while Hill won, and thereby arose an ugly faction fight.

A certain very poor widow was paying the priest money for the soul of her son, who was killed in a faction fight.

And no man knew so well as did Sir Timothy how to elevate a simple legislative attempt into a good faction fight.

It was a faction fight or something of that kind, and of course there is no feeling of a religious or party nature in it.

Again, the next year, a religious faction-fight disgraced the capital of the Empire.