For one thing, no-one can be sure the killing was not simply the result of a private feud.

In war a captain can do anything with his men, of course, but in a private feud I don't know if it's right.

But it was no time for their private feud.

I know you have forbidden private feuds among those who serve you.

It was the Vietnam War that turned this private feud into a public brawl.

He added that the attack, which also wounded seven people, might have been the result of a private feud.

He had made it clear that he would not tolerate private feuds.

What you have wandered into, sonny, is a private feud.

But that private feuds were still alive among the Old Race refugees was new to me.

In the late stages of the war, gangs and insurgents carried out private feuds.