At length the Persians were defeated with great slaughter, and the Athenians gained an immense booty from the plunder of the tents and the bodies of the slain.
The soldiers of Marius did not stand their ground long, and there was a great slaughter of them in their flight.
Philopœmen broke and routed them with great slaughter, four thousand men being said to have perished, and then turned to encounter Machanidas, who was returning with his mercenaries, and found his retreat cut off.
Both sides made a great slaughter; the carnage of the opposing parties was nearly equal, and night stayed the battle.
This prophecy was accomplished on the morrow's dawn by a great slaughterof the Danes.
This war he pursued with stubborn rashness; he slew Simon, and ended his own life amid a great slaughter of his foes.
The letters gave information of a victory gained by one of the generals, and a great slaughter of the enemy.
The armies engaged in battle, in which the rajah of Pimienta was mortally wounded and carried off the field, upon which his troops fled and were pursued into their city with great slaughter, and the royal palace set on fire.
Perceiving that the Turks were undermining the bulwark which he commanded, Gasper de Sousa made a sally with seventy men to prevent that work and made a great slaughter of the enemy.
The fight lasted three hours; but the Moors were repulsed with great slaughter, both by sea and land, and forced to retire to the church of Madre de Dios.
And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
Duke Ealhere or Eachere with the Kentishmen, and one Huda or rather Wada, with the men of Southerie, fought against the armie of [Sidenote: Great slaughter of Danes at Tenet.
A large multitude joined them from every province of Germany; and they carried on war against the Britons, driving them from their territories with great slaughter, and ever remaining masters of the field.
In the eighth year there was a great slaughter on both sides, at a place called Wodnesbyrg [Wemborow?
In the same year were fought battles in the isle of Thanet against the pagans; and there was a great slaughter made on both sides, and many were drowned in the sea.
Trusting to his word, they fell foul on the rest of their companions, and made a great slaughter one of another.
So David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter.
Duke Ealhere or Eachere with the Kentishmen, and one Huda or [Sidenote: Great slaughterof Danes at Tenet.
And he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it with a great slaughter, and destroyed much people in Israel.
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
He struck of the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Yahweh, he struck of the people fifty thousand seventy men; and the people mourned, because Yahweh had struck the people with a great slaughter.
David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter.
There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
And the host of Timotheus understood that it was Machabeus, and they fled away before his face and they made a great slaughter of them, and there fell of them in that day almost eight thousand men.
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about, and he made a great slaughter of them.
His Majesty made a great slaughter of them; an immense number of live captives was carried off by His Majesty.
The Jewish troops pursued them as far as Gerar, smiting them with a great slaughter, taking their camp?
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