Cuchulain on his part [4]drew his sword from the sheath of the Badb to attack them, and he fell to to cut away their weapons and to lighten his shield.
Thereupon Cuchulain drew [2]his[2] sword from the sheath of the Badb, to cut away the weapons and lighten the shield that was on him.
Otherwise I shall not lighten my hands off them until I have brought them all to earth.
It had become strictly necessary to lighten our packs, and we had begun to drop odds and ends every day.
The next morning (October 29th) they cached some provisions to lighten their packs, and as they proceeded fired a rifle at intervals, thinking there was now a chance of coming upon either Hubbard or me.
At ten o'clock, when we found it necessary to cross to the north shore so as to shorten the distance, there was a rising sea, and we had to lighten the canoe and ferry the cargo over in two loads.
Come, let us pray for light to Him that can lighten our darkness, and can rebuke not only these, but all the devils in hell.
For the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
He advanced then to my bed side, and whilst he faultered out his message, I could observe his colour rise, and his eyes lighten with joy, in seeing me in a situation as favourable to his loosest wishes, as if he had bespoke the play.
Readily would he lay down his life, could he, by so doing, lighten the troubles he instinctively sees in the changes of master's position.
Franconia has not forgotten them: she sends many little things to lighten the gloom of their confinement; but society closes her lips, and will frown upon any disclosure she may make of their parentage.
No man will ever lighten a sorrow of which he has not himself felt the pressure.
The Athenians trained this bird for fighting, and Severus used to lighten the cares of royalty by witnessing the spirit of its combats.
In such places she would often linger long, with her face turned upward, in contemplation of the air, as if she were invoking her guardian spirit and beseeching him to lighten her sadness.
From Marjorie, who had been quick to note Jerry's predilection for Veronica, she had received instructions to do all she could to lighten the young rebel's self-imposed burden.
Mary's forceful warning against the latter did not tend to lighten the perplexed lieutenant's own lively apprehension.
Whether it is proposed to lighten by its aid the penalties, and do away with the ruin of the fall, we are left in doubt.
The uprising of gentlemen in the cars when a tired woman enters with a child; the disposition to lighten her cares and sweeten her joys, is everywhere considered manly.
Then either cut down the barrel to lighten the pistol forward, or have flutes made in the barrel to take weight of the metal off, and put lead in the stock.
The length of the barrel does not make it top heavy, as the barrel is fluted, to lighten it forward, and the stock weighted.
We cut away mast to lighten her, but more and more she grew fast to the bank, the waves striking all her side, pushing her over.
So many placed in Hispaniola would much lighten the Nina, which indeed must be lightened in order with safety to recross Ocean-Sea.
On board also were the torpedoes and torpedo-tubes of the destroyers, for these had been taken out to lighten them during the long voyage to Hong-Kong.
I shall leave to-morrow, and, as the monsoon is fairly strong, I have dismounted the guns and the search-lights of all three destroyers to lighten them as far as possible.
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them.
The compassionate impulse to lighten the lot of a sufferer, which had before drawn her so strongly to Caracalla, had now lost its sense and meaning for this healthy, high-spirited man.
My art has few means of mitigating them, and the immortals are little inclined to lighten the load they have laid on this man.
It is a very dreary production and does not 'lighten and brighten' us a bit.
In human thought have all things habitation; Our days Laugh, lower, and lighten past, and find no station That stays.
But this little wrong was necessary tolighten a stricken heart.
But it was not this, nor the hummingbirds that dipped their long beaks into the red cups of the flowers, that made the eyes of the men watching from the jungle lighten and Serferez's lips to draw back with a tigerish snarl.
Without being positively stupid, his intellect was somewhat dull, and as his manner was shy and awkward he had not been quite understood at first, and no master had taken him specially in hand to lighten his burdens.
There are the lives that lighten from above Our under lives, the spheral souls that move Through the ancient heaven of song-illumined air Whence we that hear them singing die with love.
And she needed not to see him walk the room for three minutes to know that Michigan agencies had done nothing to lighten his brow or uncloud his character.
No," said Fleda, a pang crossing her at the thought that all her aunt's loveliness must tell directly and heavily in this case to lighten religion's testimony.
Now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, tolighten it.
But I'd lighten her, and lighten her till she floats; then tow her off, and build up the odd timbers again.
