By steering straight upon them, and with a single blow, one of those large vessels could sink them in a second.
As the man stooped to do the unbuckling, the young giant snatched away his sword and crushed in his skull with a single blow.
The garrison was to make a furious sortie, while Herkimer, advancing through the forest, was to fall suddenly upon the enemy from behind; and thus it was hoped that his army might be crushed or captured at a single blow.
With Morgan's force went William Washington, who accomplished a brilliant raid, penetrating the enemy's lines, and destroying a party of 250 men at a single blow.
Their power with the battle-axe was prodigious; Giraldus says they sometimes lopped off a horseman's leg at a single blow, his body falling over on the other side.
Then Dhaumya, having washed the horse, gave a scimitar to Bhima with which to strike off the head at a single blow.
Aswatthaman answered not his father's slayer, but took his life with a single blow.
He leapt on the back of an elephant and slew the son of the Rajah of Maghadha[283]; and he slew the rajah and his elephant also with a single blow of his mace.
The rajah took great pride in him, and was wont to take him to the apartments of the women, where he wrestled with caged tigers and lions and bears, slaying each one at desire with a single blow.
Wounded by a single blow in all her affections, at first her grief absorbed her; then, roused to sudden anger, she proudly raised her head, for now her love was changed to scorn.
Malatesta, lord of Rimini, followed his example; thus the Duke of Valentinois entered both these towns without striking a single blow.
He wanted to throw himself upon me with that club, and I am satisfied that a single blow of the formidable weapon would have smashed my head.
Both of them were boiling over with wrath when they entered the kitchen, and rushed towards me so fiercely that I thought they intended to overwhelm me at a single blow.
It was observable that some were destroyed by little and little, and others crushed for ever by a single blow.
Who could the man be who could beat an ash stave to flinders at a single blow?
His head fell at a single blow, and the astonished people could scarcely believe that they had seen the last of their foe.
His head was severed at a single blow, and was, like Fisher's, fixed on London Bridge.
He seems to have been as uncertain respecting the strength of his antagonists as in regard to their grand plan of deciding the fate of the campaign with a single blow.
It was easy to foresee that with unshaken resolution he would risk all, in order, as on former occasions, to gain all, and to put an end to the campaign with a single blow.
What is very remarkable about the operation is, that the stake must be driven through the vampire's body by a single blow.
Coming up with him, she slays him with a single blow, but then takes compassion on him, and restores him to life.
When the pickaxe was brought, he gave a single blow with it; the stones gaped apart, and betrayed a wide and deep hole between them.
But Bertha was not one of those persons who are overcome by a single blow, terrible as it might be.
He has just discovered that Madame de Tremorel was killed by a single blow, and that the assassins afterward set themselves to disfiguring the body, when it was nearly cold.
I ordered the brute to desist from his cruelty; and, as he answered with a derisive laugh, I felled him to the earth with a single blow of my boat-hook.
The executioner then takes his stand, and with uplifted eyes and arms, seems to invoke a blessing on the people, while with a single blow of his blade, her head is rolled into the river.
As he was drawing his knife to execute this purpose, I swiftly lifted an oar, and, with a single blow, laid him senseless in the bottom of the canoe.
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