Fainting there he lay Upon the shoulders of his comrades borne, Who him adoring (as though deity Dwelt in his bosom) for his matchless deeds, Plucked forth the gory shafts and took his arms To deck the gods and shield the breast of Mars.
As ne'er before The air grew dark with vultures' hovering wings, Innumerable, for every grove and wood Sent forth its denizens; on every tree Dripped from their crimsoned beaks a gory dew.
Then black Charybdis, from her boundless depth, Threw up a gory sea.
Hard by the fane Where dwells the goddess and the sacred fire, Fell aged Scaevola, though that gory hand (8) Had spared him, but the feeble tide of blood Still left the flame alive upon the hearth.
Some impulse moved him to look up in the direction toward which the eyes of the dead woman were staring, and he saw hanging from a branch a basket and in the basket the gory head of his brother!
At first it seemed that his reign could be extended only over gory corpses and smouldering ruins.
The gory body was left in the hands of the Russian nobles.
He came, a merciless robber withgory hands, plundering and burning.
The wretched Mstislaf in dismay fled, leaving two thirds of his army in gory death; and, in his flight, he met that chastisement which his cruelties merited.
The bishop removed the gory trunk of the prince and gave it respectful burial in the church of Notre Dame at Rostof.
In triumph the allies entered the gory streets of Warsaw, sent the king, Stanislaus Augustus, to exile on a small pension, and divided the remainder of Poland between them.
The Encyclopedists, however, are having quite a revival in "glorious gory Mexico.
Side by side, son and father with hoary head Struggle for triumph, or death on a gory bed.
O'er the corses of the soldiers, through the gory pools I speeded, Driving rowel-deep my spurs within my madly-bounding steed.
That gory swamp was a gruesome grove To dance fandangos in.
You left our South onegory burial ground; But love, more potent than your haughtiest anger, Subdues the souls which hate could only wound!
Not as with us 'tis heard, Not a mere party shout: They gave their spirits out; Trusted the end to God, And on the gory sod Rolled in triumphant blood.
Better thus the life to yield, Striking for the right and God, Upon Freedom's gory field, Than to kiss Oppression's rod!
Not a breath Save the gasp of a woman, with gory gashed head, All alone, all alone there, waiting for death; And she but a nurse.
Throned on the summit of the seven hills, He bathes his gory heel in Tiber's rills; Stretches his arms across a triple zone, And dares be master of mankind, alone!
They drove past miles of burned houses, through the massive city walls and beyond, until they saw the welcome signs of a camp over which Old Gory waved supreme.
I wish, tho, that they wouldn't fly Old Gory over the house," said Sam.
It was a proud moment for Sam when he stood on the edge of the trench and planted Old Gory there while the men cheered.
The Indian at his cry arose and for one long second shook, almost in his face as he came running up, the long, shining, yellow hair with the gory patch at the end.
Thou canst not say I did it: never shake 50 Thy gory locks at me.
What mean these masterless and gory swords To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?
Loud rang the cheers From side to side of that great throng, to fire The courage of the mighty ones to clash Hands in the gory play.
Then front to front their battles closed, like beasts Of ravin, locked in tangle of gory strife.
His gory heads were cast In dust, dashed down by that resistless club.
Then came Their henchmen, and the gory gauntlets loosed In haste from those strong hands.
Charged these warriors twain to face Strong Memnon in the gory strife.
There they stood, gory and stern, ready for the next onset; it was first made by Grimes, who tried to practise on Kelly the feint which Kelly had before practised on him.
One poor beast, who had its nose and mouth shot away, used to edge in amongst the staff and rub its gory head against their horses’ flanks.
A traveller might have supposed Talavera to be in profound peace until, gazing on her gory heights, he saw they were covered with heaps of ghastly slain.
Yet curiosity ofttimes overcame fear, and many coigns of vantage were chosen by those who wished to climb up and see the gory sport.
Crest= / on a mount urgent with the hump a caliph proper of the Soudan imbrued gory to the last, dropping in his flight on a ground sable sundry spouses reluctant puffy without mules.
I will know whether Tydeus' son stalwart Diomedes shall thrust me from the ships back to the wall, or I shall lay him low with my spear and bear away his gory spoils.
Thus saying he took up the gory spoils and set them in his car, and gat him thereon, with feet and hands all bloody, as a lion that hath devoured a bull.
Turning sick at the gory sight, he buried his face in his handkerchief and expired.
The Duke of Buckingham was at first loaded with honors in return for his gory assistance; but even he became disgusted with the wicked usurper, and headed a Welsh rebellion.
The Giants slain, the Cornish man Despatched their gory heads by van To great King Arthur;--gifts more queer Have ne'er been sent to our Sovereign dear.
Were there twice ten in yonder hole, Ere sinks behind yon crag the sun, The gory head of every one Before my feet should roll!
Over the gory field lay multitudes of men, the blue and the gray commingled, who would dream of battlefields no more.
Under a flag of truce, on the day after the battle, the men of the North and of the South met on the gory field to bury their dead and to minister to the wounded.
But the odds were too great and at length, as the shades of evening were settling over the gory field, Banks began to withdraw the remnant of his troops.
Though pressed back from their position and obliged to huddle for the night around the Landing, while thousands of their comrades had fallen on the gory field, they had hopes of heavy reenforcements during the night.
As Napoleon passed over the gory field after the awful carnage, he exclaimed with deep emotion, “To a father who loses his children victory has no charms.
But as Katte’s gory head rolled upon the scaffold, the prince fainted.
Their strains above my tomb shall sound for ever Amid the torches' blaze--no solemn rites Beseem the day when gory murder scares Heaven's pardoning grace.
Oh, be cursed the hand that dug These gory wounds!
Lord Clifford she knighted on the spot, using his own gory sword; then she ordered York’s head to be carried off to York, and placed on the city’s southern gateway.
A gory stain was dashed upon the lily shield of France when the Duke of Burgundy was basely slain by Tanneguy de Châtel in the King’s presence.
The gory heads were tossed from hand to hand, and it was evident to the unfortunate prisoners that the drink was beginning to inflame the dancers.
Gregory George, nicknamed 'Gory by his brothers, for the fun of the thing, he was so fair-haired and gentle.
At this very moment, Gory Danby, quite unconscious of the feast up stairs, was having his own private table in the kitchen.
Everywhere, as I say, good Dietrich's work of thirty years trampled into gory mud.
