I smashed my hand upon the spikes of the rail in front of me, and although I saw hands move impulsively towards me all over the court, I did not know that my arm wasimpaled and the blood running down.
He made a pass in the air with his blade, and I remembered vividly the cockroach he had impaled with such accuracy on board the Thames.
Preferring to be a live coward to an impaled martyr, he chose the latter, yet such was his influence with the Jews that thousands of his adherents voluntarily embraced the religion of Mohammed.
One shield impaled with Forester bears the fesse cheque of Stuart,--perhaps for Marion Stewart, Lady Dalswinton, wife of the second Sir John Forester.
The foremost of the impaled men wore a beard, and was no other than the gunner of the catapult.
The roast-meat man brandished his knife over an impaled lamb roasted whole, which sent up a rich odour and oily swirls of steam in the sunshine.
Ralph had visions of being impaled on the tops of the trees and he worked frantically to right the plane.
He levelled off two feet above the peak which had impaled the eastbound mail and circled carefully.
It had been impaled by a tooth-like rock that held it firmly.
He is paralysed with terror,' thought I; and I expected the next moment to see him impaled upon the sharp antlers and gored to death.
I felt the weapon pass through my thigh, and I fell impaled upon the shaft.
With a hoarse growl, the monster turned, and, to my joy, I saw that it was impaled upon the spear, which had passed through the skin of its neck.
Let a man like Oliver Cromwell breathe upon a bayonet, and you may reasonably expect to see a baby impaled upon it in a minute.
In deep water it remains hung, or, rather, impaled on the pole in such a way that about 6in.
Shield with impaled quarters, from the brass of Peter Halle (c.
Shield with impaled quarters from the brass of Peter Halle, ob.
The three uppermost bear the arms of Despenser, Berkeley, and Beauchamp, and the large one the arms of Robert FitzHamon, the founder, impaled with the singular cross of the abbey.
Part of the seal of Margaret lady Hungerford, with impaled banner held up by a lion.
Joan Stafford countess of Kent and lady of Wake, who encircles her impaled shield with a cordon of Stafford knots (pl.
Overshadowing her are two large banners of impaled arms: one of Hungerford and Botreaux, upheld by a lion; the other of Botreaux and Beaumont, upheld by a griffin.
In the other the impaled shield of Sir Richard and his dame, upheld by an angel, is painted upon a ground having the upper three-fourths red and the fourth part pale pink.
The blade impaled a piece of paper and upon it was written the word "Knock.
There was a poniard in her throat, and it impaled a piece of paper upon which was written "Knock.
Such an impaled Shield is borne by a husband and wife during their conjoint lives; and should the wife become a widow, by her the impaled arms are borne during her widowhood charged upon a lozenge.
Stuart shield with Nassau in pretence on the dexter half of his Shield, and thus impaled in the sinister half of his Shield the same Stuart arms, as in the Diagram, No.
Royal Shield, impaled to the dexter with the quartered arms of France and England.
Westminster Hall; and sometimes he impaled the Confessor’s Arms with his own quartered Shield, the arms of the Confessor having the precedence.
The dexter half only--the husband’s arms--of animpaled Shield is hereditary.
The last instance with which I am acquainted of this punishment having been inflicted in Turkey, was at Baghdad, where, about ten years ago, Nejib Pasha impaledfour rebel Arab Sheikhs, one at each corner of the bridge.
It was you who during the revolution brought about the death of the Princesse de Lamballe; it was you who carried her head on a pike, but your head will be impaled on something longer.
There are also some in the Trinity Chapel, showing the arms of the Despensers, impaled with those of Burghersh.
Beset by immediate misgivings I rushed into his tent, where I found a slip of paper impaled like a bait on some tackle lying on the table.
It was Sambo's land crab neatly impaled on a Stuart tackle.
The covers of the volumes bound for Wodhull are mostly impressed with a stamp of his arms, impaled with those of his wife.
And Chosroes promised that he would release the man to them, but he secretly impaled him not long afterwards.
And Chosroes, filled with rage, impaled Aniabedes, since he had been outgeneralled by John, a tradesman and an altogether unwarlike man.
Wichehalse's servants also killed another of Monmouth's men, and his body was impaled on a gate near Ley.
If to-day someone came to Constantinople to announce that he was the favourite of the Archangel Raphael, far superior to Gabriel in dignity, and that it was in him alone people should believe, he would be impaled in the public place.
Let the Shah forgive this unfortunate sinner, and he will reap greater reward in Heaven than if he had killed twenty Muscovites, or impaled the father of all Europeans, or even if he had stoned a Sûfi.
Had I rushed into the harem, death would have been my lot; for most probably they would have impaled me on the spot; and what good would that have done to Zeenab?
The forts of the latter were destroyed, their houses burned, and prisoners were impaled outside the gates of their cities.
John Looney was felled by a rifle bullet and even as he fell shuddering to the deck another leaden missile shattered the woodwork and impaled one of his eyeballs upon a spear of wood, gouging it from the socket.
The witness had lifted from the blood-stained deck a long splinter of wood on which was impaled a human eye!
Who sought to climb over his senses and found himself impaled by a tower of Babel?
Her breasts tightened until they felt impaled on their own nipples.
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