One broad-shouldered and bearded man overthrew all the wrestlers who came to grips with him.
He laid his hands upon the bull's horns and he struggled with him and he overthrew him.
He held that stony body to him, and the cold of that body went through him, and its stoniness seemed to turn his bones to stone, but still Heracles strove with him, and at last he overthrew him and he held Death down upon the ground.
Then it rushed upon him and overthrew him, and Theseus felt its terrible weight upon him.
He knows that even as Zeus overthrew his father and made himself the ruler in his stead, so, too, another will overthrow Zeus.
Charles Martel, however, overthrew Ragenfrid, accepted Chilperic as king of Neustria, and, on the death of Clotaire IV.
In such cases friction frequently developed, and in the two cases specified the vice-presidents and presidential rivals, Vasquez and Caceres, overthrew the president and established themselves in power.
An earthquake overthrew its fine buildings in 1564 and the city was thereupon relocated at a distance of three miles on the bank of the Camu.
When General Luperon overthrew President Cesareo Guillermo, in 1879, Heureaux was closely associated with the revolutionary movement.
In 1751 the colony was visited by a severe hurricane, which caused the Ozama to leave its banks, and by a destructive earthquake which overthrew the cities of Azua and Seibo and did much damage to the church buildings of Santo Domingo.
One of the first and most memorable was that of 1564 which overthrew the cities of La Vega and Santiago de los Caballeros.
Book VIII The next day's entertainment of Odysseus, where he sees them contend in wrestling and other exercises, and upon provocation took up a greater stone than that which they were throwing, and overthrew them all.
And in his agony he smote the ground with his brow, and spurning with both his feet he overthrew the high seat, and the mist of death was shed upon his eyes.
But when they came out Pelleas overthrew them all as they dashed upon him one after the other.
When heoverthrew me at the lists he threw me higher.
So down they went but Pelleas overthrew them all again so Ettarre called down from the tower above, "Bind him and bring him in.
Then he turned to the next-comer after Limours, overthrew him and blindly rushed back upon all the men behind.
Peace vied with war in cruelty, and surpassed it: for while war overthrew armed hosts, peace slew the defenceless.
The daring coup de main of Pelopidas and Mellon, against the government of Thebes, bears a remarkable analogy to that by which Evagoras got into Salamis and overthrew the previous despot (Isokrates, Or.
At length, however, Pelopidas overthrew and killed him, after which they retired, enjoining the wife with threats to remain silent, and closing the door after them with peremptory commands that it should not be again opened.
For the paths wherein his danger lay were those which favoured the Medici, and it was by these that his enemies attacked him, and in the end overthrew him.
For causes such as these, the measure remained in abeyance down to the time of the Gracchi; but being by them revived, finally overthrew the liberty of Rome.
For the multitude loathing its rulers, lent itself to any who ventured, in whatever way, to attack them; when some one man speedily arose who with the aid of the people overthrew them.
It was Lucien, Monsieur de Serizy, Monsieur de Bauvan, and Monsieur de Granville whooverthrew us.
That man has bereft me of everything; for it was he, and he alone, whooverthrew the edifice of Lucien's fortunes, by what means and in whose interest I know not.
They were superior to the native blacks, though mixed in blood, but of course far inferior to the Portuguese, whooverthrew their power.
Seizing the favourable moment when the column writhed in anguish, Colborne cheered his men to the charge, and, aided by the second 95th Rifles, utterly overthrew the last hope of France.
And the ball thus set rolling at Königsberg was to gather mass and momentum until, thanks to the powerful aid of Wellington in the South, it overthrew Napoleon at Paris.
For in the Book of King Arthur (which I wrote aforetime) you may there read in the story of Sir Pellias how great and puissant a champion Sir Marhaus was, and how he overthrew Sir Gawaine and others with the greatest ease.
Tell Sir Launcelot that so Sir Tristram overthrew me with shame to himself and with discredit to me, and that he then refused me all satisfaction such as one true knight should afford another.
In that encounter Sir Sagramore's spear broke, but Sir Launcelot struck so powerful a blow that he overthrew both horse and man into a ditch of water that was near-by.
In that encounter he overthrew me, because of the weariness of my horse.
And during that time, he overthrew eleven knights in various affairs at arms and in all those adventures he met with no mishap himself.
Thereupon this poor man ran at the knight and overthrew him and took the sword away from him and soused him several times in the well.
For I overthrew Sir Ector and Sir Lionel only a day or two ago, and now they lie almost naked in the lower parts of that castle yonder.
Then Sir Launcelot catched another spear, great and strong, from the esquire who followed him, and before ever that spear broke he overthrew sixteen knights therewith.
Then, at the height of his literary career, Eugene Sue was driven into exile after Louis Napoleon overthrew the Constitutional Government in a coup d'etat and had himself officially proclaimed Emperor Napoleon III.
Earthquakes shook it down, shattered the walls of its temples, overthrew the statuary, tumbled the inscriptions in the dust.
This is where the Janizaries overthrew and assassinated Mahmoud I.
They soon found that they were mistaken, for the Cid overthrewthem one after another until only two were left, and thus freed Don Sancho from the power of his enemies.
His comrades loved him too well not to follow him, and he chased the enemy back right into the camp, and overthrew there numbers of their tents, although the Spaniards were all astir and ready for battle.
This year also some terrible earthquakes took place in Macedonia, Asia Minor, and Pontus, and their repeated shocks overthrew many towns, and even mountains.
They overthrew their sultan, and founded an Egyptian government which lasted until Napoleon's time.
But he did interfere, and overthrew Ottocar of Bohemia, the strongest of them all, and restored some measure of law and tranquillity to distracted Germany.
And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the Temple, and the sheep and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables.
This overthrew their notion of Godhead--the frightful intellectual idol to which they were bowing down.
No sooner was his restraining hand removed than his colleagues fought among themselves, until Constantine overthrew his antagonists and once more united the entire Empire.
Whensoever a knight came there, he overthrew him, and sold him for his full worth.
He rode against them with his spear, and at the first course smote the black giant clean through the body and overthrew him, so that never could he rise again.
Then he turned upon others, and in a moment overthrew four more.
With their aid, he overthrew his foes in a great battle near the river Trent; and then he passed with them into their own lands and helped them drive out their enemies.
They overthrew the administration of his successor, which claimed to act upon his principles, succeeded to the control of the Federal Government, and have kept it ever since, with rare and limited exceptions, attributable to special causes.
The better knowledge of the country overthrew his specious deductions in a short time, and its traditions will, it is to be hoped, render them forever harmless.
Tristram fought with Blaanor, and overthrew him, and held his life in his power.
He encountered them, one after the other, and overthrew them all four, man and horse, and then rode off, bidding them not to forget their friend the knight of Cornwall.
But with one thrust Geraint overthrew him also, and killed him as he had done the other.
He overthrew all that encountered him, in particular Palamedes, whom he brought to the ground with a stroke of his lance, and then fought him hand to hand, bearing off the prize of the tourney.
But they came upon the statue again, and the sight of it mocked them, so they overthrew it and broke it.
There were three of you and one man overthrew you all?
He overthrew companies alone, and with his lions he routed armies.
Mortified at the intelligence which overthrew my hopes and castle buildings, I seized my hat, descended the stairs, and quitted the house; in my hurry and confusion quite forgetting to call the servants to her ladyship's assistance.
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