King Olaf sailed in autumn for Gothland, and arrayed him for harrying there.
To and fro went Danish punitive columns, and visited the district with a harrying even beyond their wont.
The last scene is a most forcible representation of Christ's victorious "Harrying of Hell," as conceived by mediaeval imagination and referred to by Dante in his Inferno.
The harrying of Northumberland was a crime done with a political object; it was the extreme form of military severity; it was not vulgar robbery done with no higher motive than to secure the fuller enjoyment of a brutal sport.
As our own gleeman tells the tale, they did little beyond harrying the helpless land; but in continental writers we can trace a regular campaign, in which we hear of no battles, but of many sieges.
In itself, the harrying of Northumberland, the very invasion of England, with all the bloodshed that they caused, might be deemed blacker crimes than the unjust death of a single man.
To weaken them, he decreed a merciless harrying of the whole land, the direct effects of which were seen for many years, and which left its mark on English history for ages.
And the great harrying of the northern shires was the price paid for William's kingship over them.
He marched from Sussex into Kent, harrying the land as he went, to frighten the people into submission.
The picture of William the Great directing in person mere brutal havoc like this is strange even after the harrying of Northumberland and the making of the New Forest.
The harrying of Northumberland showed that he now shrank from no harshness that would serve his ends; but from mere purposeless oppression he was still free.
We know not how Chester fell; but the land was not won without fighting, and a frightful harrying was the punishment.
The harrying of Northumberland was in itself a far greater crime, and involved far more of human wretchedness.
At the same time Gospatric, now William's earl in Northumberland, retaliated by a harrying of Scottish Cumberland, which provoked Malcolm to greater cruelties.
For the present however Malcolm's invasion was only avenged by Gospatric's harrying in Cumberland.
Nothing was done on either side beyond harrying and skirmishes; but Eadric's corner of the land remained unsubdued.
And even if he had felt no scruples on this point, the theme of the Harrying of Hell would hardly have commended itself to him in his later years, least of all its triumphant close.
Twas an ill-taken journey that the injury-bringing, Harrying harmer to Heorot wandered: {The hall groans.
Sir Robert Umfraville met and checked another company that were harrying Coquetdale.
They took Sir Aymer de Athol's castle of Ponte-land, and the good knight Sir Aymer himself, and went on their way, harrying and burning as they went.
The Danes, however, though checked, were not sufficiently weakened by this fight to give up thoughts of capturing Wessex, and soon were harrying and plundering again.
It was not long before privateers in his name were harrying the Spanish vessels and swooping down upon the ports held by the Spaniards.
The Carle was well to do, he had been out harrying in his young days, and he was a doughty champion.
King Hring was often absent for long, harrying foreign shores, and Hvit remained at home and governed the land.
And when he was young he was out viking expeditions and harrying .
The whole of Jerry's circle was stirred up, in fact, like a hive of wasps; their ribaldry grew with what it fed on; and every day some new and exquisite method of harrying the devout occurred to the more ingenious among them.
Tigranes, proud of his newly-won crown, and anxious to show himself worthy of it, made constant incursions into Adiabene, ravaging and harrying the fertile country far and wide.
In silence and woful awe Thy harrying angels of death Destroy whate'er thou makest-- Makest, destroyest, destroyest and makest.
But the scale was soon to turn; for every reforming sermon was apt to produce the harrying of religious houses, and every punishment of the robbers was persecution intolerable against which men sought English protection.
All this time, of course, Dutch fleets had been harrying the Pacific coast, and the Dutch had actually obtained a footing in Southern Chile, although this was not destined to prove permanent.
No further invasion took place till 1079, when Malcolm took advantage of William's Norman difficulties to make another harrying expedition, which afforded the occasion for the building of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
But Malcolm was too late; the Danes had gone home, and, in the interval, William had himself superintended the great harrying of the North which made Malcolm's subsequent efforts somewhat unnecessary.
I found them, camarades, at the Church of St. Denis in the harrying of Narbonne, and I took them away with me lest they fall into the hands of the wicked.
It was he, sire, who won the golden crown which Queen Philippa, your royal mother, gave to be jousted for by all the knights of England after the harrying of Calais.
The allied forces were constantly harrying their enemy.
In the hinterland, along the Sanga River, the French columns had met with continued success in harrying and driving out the enemy.
A murder of the Archbishop of Dublin, a capture of the city, a repulse before its castle, a harrying of the Pale, ended in a sudden disappearance of the rebels among the bogs and forests of the border on the advance of the English forces.
An English fleet repaid the ravages of the Bretons by harrying the coast of Britanny; and the turn of French politics soon gave Frenchmen too much work at home to spare men for work abroad.
Already that king hath come into this land and is harrying and burning.
Harrying the gulls was the most popular amusement of the boys; they were throwing stones at them all day long and caught them with baited hooks and set gins baited with fish on the sands and no person forbade them.
We had prevented the enemy from reaching his objective, and possibly delayed him long enough for some of our other ships to have a chance at harrying his retreat.
The success of any kind of stunt for harryingthe U-boat is very largely a matter of psychology, and this is especially so in the 'Q' department.
To hide the move as long as possible, no change was made till after sundown; no hint was given to the beleaguered town; they must have no opportunity to reap the enormous advantages, moral and material, ofharrying a retreating foe.
Here a barricade was thrown up along the highway, a gun was mounted, and several hundred riflemen were posted under leaders skilled in the arts of harrying a foe and giving him no chance to strike back.
At the same time, Wolf and Bruce left off harrying her flanks and sprang aside.
The sound disturbed a half-breed spaniel from his doze in the dust, and sent him out to continue the harrying his injured terrier chum had begun.
