It was a panic which dispersed the Persian hosts in the fatal battle of Arbela, and made Alexander the master of western Asia.
Fierce Volscens foams with rage, and, gazing round, Descry'd not him who gave the fatal wound; Nor knew to fix revenge.
Upon his death-bed he sent his benediction in a very moving manner to Constantia, who at that time was herself so far gone in the same fatal distemper that she lay delirious.
What can be more natural, or more moving, than the circumstances in which he describes the behaviour of those women who had lost their husbands on this fatal day?
I was surprised to hear men--men like Judge Taft, although he was opposed at first to the annexation--give this reason when we were discussing the question after the fatalstep had been taken.
A reputation for "cuteness" and sharp dealing is fatal in great affairs.
Often at present this does not exist, and its absence is fatal to the school as a seriously intellectual institution.
Such defects would befatal in a novel of the ordinary kind.
But it would not be difficult to show that the objections these philosophers adduce would, if carried out logically, be fatal to the reasonableness of all patriotism.
He is King of the night, and the morning ray will be fatal to him.
Raymond once more embraces her, neither of them knowing that it will be fatal to him, dies in her arms, and the sorrowing Melusina returns to the flood.
The final embrace is fatal to him, and he dies in her arms.
Forget not the complaints, and the yet morefatal silence, of the poor, and pray that the ennobling of your own life, and the gratification of your own happiness, may be linked hereafter with some public Christian labour.
Under the existing system (which admitted Jews to Parliament, but excluded Atheists), to deny the existence of God was a fatal bar, but to deny the Christian Creed was no bar at all.
The endless contradictions and perplexities, crimes and follies, of our Egyptian policy became too obvious to be concealed or palliated, and at the beginning of 1884 the Government resolved on their crowning and fatal blunder.
From every side thesefatal signs are sent, And boist’rous bangs with thumping thwacks fall thick.
Thy native soil shall be thy fatal gulf, Arthur: thy place of birth thy place of death.
Sure, this portends my death; this misery Aims at some fatal pointed tragedy.
We both are ready here at hand to work thyfatal fall.
When the same breeze which bore it from the dust Wing'd home the fatal shaft that tore its bleeding breast.
The equatorial sun, with its fiercest rays, cannot penetrate these dark recesses; it only exhales from them pestilential vapours, which render this coast the theatre of more fatal epidemic diseases than any other, even of Western Africa.
Fréron proposed to the convention to throw off the fatal yoke of the committees.
Bouillé, apprised of thisfatal event, hastened himself at the head of a regiment of cavalry.
The revolution had actors really more sanguinary than he, but none exercised a more fatal influence over his times.
The Grenelle enterprise proved most fatal to it; besides the numbers slain in the fight, many were condemned to death by the military commissions, which were to it what the revolutionary tribunals had been to its foes.
The request for a reprieve was received by the Girondists as a last resource; but this also failed them, and the fatal sentence was pronounced.
In him the king found not a statesman, but a mere courtier, whose fatal influence extended over the whole course of his reign.
This emigration through Brittany, which they hoped to arouse to insurrection, became fatal to them.
There, after defeating an Ottoman army on the coast of Aboukir, so fatal to the French fleet the preceding year, he decided on leaving that land of exile and fame, in order to turn the new crisis in France to his own elevation.
Camille Desmoulins, when in the fatal cart, was still full of astonishment at his condemnation, which he could not comprehend.
This fatal refusal caused all the misfortunes of the night.
One cannot help lamenting its fatal want of foresight; it could neither submit to nor change its destiny.
Nothing is so fatal to a personality as the keeping of promises, unless it be telling the truth.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.
Nothing is sofatal to personality as deliberation.
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat.
The disease is represented to have been extremely fatal to the Indians at Drummond's Island.
Every motive of humanity towards the suffering Indian, would lead to extend to him this protection against a disease he holds in constant dread, and of which he knows, by sad experience, the fatal effects.
It does not appear that, at this time, the disease extended to the bands east of Fond du Lac; but it is represented to have been extremely fatal to those bands north and west from there.
He was ultimately appointed a paymaster in the army, in which capacity he served in Mexico, where he acquired the seeds of the disorder which proved fatal to him in 1849.
Mr. Brock was again deputed to London to contend against a measure fraught with such fatal consequences to the islands, and at the same time to obtain some modifications in the navigation laws.
This fatal security was the cause of the misfortune which befell the allies on the 19th.
Nothing could exceed the joy of the inhabitants at our arrival, and in proportion as they rejoiced they mourned our departure, which took place before sun-set, in consequence of a fatal disaster which had befallen the Russians on the right.
Assured by the prophet that the American bullets would not injure them, they rushed on the bayonets with their war clubs, and exposed their persons with a fatal fearlessness.
It is true his gallant course was arrested by a fatal wound--such is the fortune of war; but the people of Canada did not feel that his precious life was therefore thrown away, deeply as they deplored his fall.
General Brock was killed close to the road that leads through Queenstown village, and an aged thorn bush now marks the place where he fell, when the fatal ball entered his vitals.
Footnote 120: "But the most fatal and palpable error of the commander-in-chief was his neglect to preserve that ascendancy on Lakes Erie and Ontario which was actually enjoyed by the British at the opening of the contest.
Some of the most fatal outbreaks of disease I have met with have been communicated in this manner.
That wasting fatal scourge, pulmonary consumption, is the same in character as when Coelius Aurelianus gave it description.
To cross a cemetery at night might attract the fatalvengeance of the dead thus disturbed.
Then followed that brief death grapple, fatalto the leader on each side.
Already he had had some stirring adventures, one of which might well have proved grimly fatal had he not found a refuge across the sea.
How many men have never developed their fatal weaknesses until success was within reach and the edifice fell upon other innocent ones.
Hunger drove us to hurry--a thing we rarely did in the morning--and the way we splashed cold water about would have been fatal to any but a tiled floor.
All alone in a great case by itself was pinned the purple emperor, the Apatura Iris, that fatal specimen that had given the Purple Emperor his name and quietus.
These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.
It was many minutes before I could get the dog away; and this incident, as well as the one already related, shows how slow the reptile is to make the fatal spring.
A sickly time appeared to be now returning; in fact, the year following my visit (1853) was the most fatal one ever experienced in this part of the country.
My little companion was armed with a quiver full of these little missiles, a small number of which, sufficient for the day's sport, were tipped with the fatal Urari poison.
Its bark exudes, when hacked with a knife, a milky sap, which is not only a fatal poison when taken internally, but is said to cause incurable sores if simply sprinkled on the skin.
They are acquainted with many poisonous plants, and although they seldom have the courage to administer a fatal dose, sometimes contrive to convey to their victim sufficient to cause serious illness.
It is generally fatal to the Juris and Passes; the first question the poor, patient Indians now put to an advancing canoe is, "Do you bring defluxo?
Austria has always been fatal to France, either as foe or friend, as when she put the dagger in Jacques Clement's or Ravaillac's or Damien's to slay our kings.
Mysterious agents of secret, fatal passions, they push on the movement from where it paused, and having urged it to its farthest limit, those who opened the way are horrified, at awakening to see that others attained the end.
Poor Don Quixote is a type of the fatal results which follow the possession of romantic feelings and enthusiasm without common-sense to guide and control them.
The young princess is said to have drunk the fatal draught with the courage of a heroine, knowing that it would save her father; but the unhappy mother was overpowered by grief, and died broken-hearted.
It scattered large armies of rebels by bayonet charges, but it was rapidly reduced by three fatal diseases--fever, dysentery and cholera.
Retreat from Oudh would not only have involved the loss of a province, but imparted a fatal strength to mutiny and murder from Bengal to the Punjab.
The words I have uttered I should not have spoken till you were free, and had no longer more to expect from me; but oh, forget them--learn to look upon me as before I committed that fatal error.
Linton and his companions shuddered as they left the fatal spot.
She recked not of her own agony, for a purple stream issuing from her neck, told where a bullet had done its fatal work on her.
Charles Fleetwood, for he it was who had come to rescue her he loved, as he discovered this fatal confirmation of his worst fears, covered his face with his hands, and groaned.
The shower fell thick around them, and had it not been for the shelter of the nets, more than one shot might have proved fatalto Zappa.
The shock was so great to our mother, worn out as she already was with watching over Nina, that she could not rally; and she herself fell a victim to the same fatal disease.
Every instant they expected the coming of the fatal wave; but sea after sea whirled foaming by them, making their eyes giddy, and sickening their hearts with apprehension; yet instead of increasing, each seemed diminished in size.
Such absence is not, however, fatal to our hypothesis.
I do not think, however, that these facts are necessarily fatalto the hypothesis.
