Who comes in friendly guise prepared To slay thee by his arts ensnared.
Lo, here I stand before thy face To slay thee with my murderous mace, As Death, the universal lord, Stands threatening with his fatal cord.
Though neither God nor fiend have power To slay thee in the battle hour, Yet from his hand shall come thy fate, Struck down before his vengeful hate.
I will not strike or slay thee now, For weary, faint with fight art thou.
Quoth the other, "Needs must I slay thee;" whereupon the traveller dismounted from his horse and grovelled on the earth, beseeching the robber and speaking him fair.
Quoth the cook, 'Needs must I slay thee, so I may take thy good.
And Hector would have met him, but Apollo stood by him and said, "Fight not with Achilles, lest he slay thee.
Is any one robbing thee of thy sheep, or seeking to slay thee by craft or force?
If he slay thee, nor I, nor thy wife, shall pay thee the last honors of the dead, but far away by the ships of the Greeks the dogs and vultures will devour thee.
For he crieth aloud that he will climb upon the wall and slay thee, even though he die with thee, or drive thee forth into banishment, even as thou, he saith, hast driven him.
Chiefs are taking counsel together about thee, to slay thee: so get thee away, for I do give thee sincere advice.
Now let be, said Sir Launcelot, I was not far from thee when thou wert made knight, Sir Raynold, and also I know thou art a good knight, and loth I were to slay thee.
Then said the knight unto Arthur, Thou art in my danger whether me list to save thee or slay thee, and but thou yield thee as overcome and recreant thou shalt die.
I am loath to slay thee, therefore yield thee as recreant.
He replied "Talk me no long talk, it is in my power to slay thee; but I give thee instead thy choice.
Replied the Ifrit, "Ask of me only what mode of death thou wilt die, and by what manner of slaughter shall I slay thee.
Spare my life, so Allah spare thine; and slay me not, lest Allah set one to slay thee.
When I had mastered this much of knowledge she said to me:—O my son, keep this matter concealed from thy sire and reveal naught to him lest he slay thee.
But Helen the Beautiful hath lovers a-plenty, and being what she is shall nothing miss thee: howbeit thou art surely liar, and surely will I slay thee!
Give ear, then, to my words; else will I slay thee.
Make haste, or we will go with thy head, for indeed the King purposeth to slay thee and to slay thy comrade and take that which is with you.
So I said to him, 'Leave these saddle-bags, for I mean to slay thee.
Half of my heart biddeth me slay thee, who hast made me slay him.
Esau thy brother threateneth to slay thee, therefore now my son hear my voice and do as I shall counsel.
Then said our Lord to Moses: Go and return into Egypt, all they be now dead that sought for to slay thee.
Asahel would not leave him; yet Abner said to him: Go from me and follow not me lest I be compelled to slay thee, and then I may not make my peace with Joab thy brother.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slay thee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
