For a time he held his foemen at bay, but that bare patch of white shoulder was a mark for every weapon, until at last a hatchet sank up to the socket in the knight's chest.
This time he was firmly resolved, deep in his gallant soul, that he would come no foot back, but would find his death there amongst his foemen or carve a path into the heart of their ranks.
They could lean against each other back to back while they waited and allowed their foemen to tire themselves out.
You would discover different foemen among the mountain tribes to the north and east.
The foemen roll forth from their camp as a billow, and onward they bear!
Such are the symbols, by our foemen shown-- Now make thine own decision, whom to send Against this last opponent!
Come down to the sevenfold gates and harry the foemen away!
For we, though long beleaguered, in the main Have with our sallies struck the foemen hard.
Macleod waved high the fairy flag; H is foemen reeled back at the sight; `For in their cruel eyes there danced Great spots and bars of golden light.
Such now he marcheth to this man forlorne, 6 And left to losse: his stalking steps are stayde Vpon a snaggy Oke, which he had torne 8 Out of his mothers bowelles, and it made His mortall mace, wherewith his foemen he dismayde.
The country trembled, and at all frontiers The foemen challenged us to ward our land.
The foemen took their gold and sacked their splendid treasure-cities, Sodom and Gomorrah.
Far and wide upon the field of slaughter the birds were tearing at the bodies of those foemen of the free.
Well they knew that all wild creatures Speak to man if one is worthy To receive their friendly warning; Knew that seabirds, swift and cunning, See the foemen while their war boats Still are far beyond the sea-rim.
Let them light the lurid war fires, When they see the foemen coming.
From the North the foemen threatened, As an ever-present shadow.
From the surf the foemen struggled To the rocks and scrambled on them.
King Romance is fallen, banned, Cried his foemen overbold, Broken is the wizard wand, All the stories have been told!
His foemen seemed of little might, Although they thronged like summer bees About the outlying villages, And on the land great ruin brought.
He fought like a wild beast, striking down foemen right and left, and making a pathway for his followers.
When the night fell all camps were made with care, as became good generalship, although there was fair certainty that no considerable armed force of foemen could be near at hand.
Now also David Griffith and his Welshmen had arrived within the walls, and it seemed to the defenders of Bruyerre that their foemen were a multitude.
He learned also of forts and of defenses, and of attacks and of artful dealings with foemen by night or day.
Tis ever ill to let his foemen know that he knoweth them.
Not in the battle-field's tumultuous strife, Not in the hour when vanquishedfoemen fly, Not in the midst of bright and happy life, Is it most hard to die.
But what man of power so godlike he can stay the billow's wrack, Or with single-handed weapon hold an hundred foemen back!
Twenty wretches lie below there with the brothers of Germain, Twenty foemen of her honor that I, Enguerrand, have slain.
Over the prairie land side by side, Our foemen behind, Speed swift as the wind, And gain on us steadily, stride by stride.
Laurels to earn; foemen to spurn; Only for glory we anxiously yearn, Conquerors all we will hither return.
But Parzival, gallant hero, bade them treat their captives well Till the dawn of the third day's morning, and fear on his foemen fell.
Yet, unwitting, two jousts had I ridden, and two foemen I overthrew, 475 In those days all men gave me honour, nor sorrow nor shame I knew.
And in slumber his foemen pressed him, and would swiftly upon him ride; So fearful his dream that, wakened, thirty times had he rather died.
In Rohas I sought for ventures, and Slavs were my foemen then, 1075 With lances they came against me and I trow they were gallant men!
In the fear for the life of her husband Jeschuté, that lady fair, Mourned sore for his woe, yet the foemen to part might she little dare.
Yet Gamuret's son was unwearied, and never a limb did ache, Tho' Klamidé deemed that the foemen from the city the truce would break.
Stern Lancelot frown'd; for in those sturdy forms 41 The Christian Knight the Saxon foemen fear'd.
Be ours your foemen,--be your foemen shown, And we in turn will smite them as our own.
My foemen rule; I bear the name of King; I wear the crown; but am controlled by them.
The stigma attached in perpetuity to the posterity of the condemned, whose names were conspicuously emblazoned upon church-walls as foemen to Christ and to the State.
So to the dukes of men he shows how peace hath evil end, And on Latinus biddeth them in weed of war to wend; That they may save their Italy, and thrust the foemen forth.
No place I have among the Greeks, and Dardan folk withal My foemen are, and bloody end, due doom, upon me call.
The fleet of the foemen of England hath found not one but a thousand graves; And he that shall number and name them shall number by name and by tale the waves.
II England, queen of the waves whose green inviolate girdle enrings thee round, Mother fair as the morning, where is now the place of thy foemen found?
Is he content that thou and I-- Three hundred men in line-- Should show him thus how man may try To stay the foemen passing by To Athens, where they dine?
Heaving sea and cloudy sky Saw the battle flashing by As Thy foemen ran.
He fought his way through his foemen like a wild boar in the forest through the hounds--bolder he could not have been.
Said the Margrave of Bavaria, "We seek our foemen and follow on their track.
Wherefore should I let my foemen get so much wealth.
His best knights drew round him, and he said, "Without cause, and with a mighty army, foemen come hither against us into our land.
Throughout all continues the firing from the plain; the bullets hurtle around our heads, and the clamour of our foemen reaches our ears with fierce thrilling import.
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