Even if he succeeded in slayingthe monster, how should he escape from this death-trap, this rock-prison?
But I could scarce say so before the old merchant rushed at the red knight with a yell, who without moving slew his horse with an axe, and then the men at arms speared the old man, slaying him as one would an otter or a rat.
The dead were slaying the dying, And a famine of strivers silenced strife: There were none to love and none to wed, And pity and joy and hope had fled, And grief had spent her passion in sighing; And where was the Spirit of Life?
Not from any fear of them, but for fear of slaying them, as I might be forced to do, if they rushed with steel at me.
Meanwhile Cannibals Dick and Joe lived in the boat, as happily as if they had been born in it, and devoted their time to the slaying and cooking of Sir Philip's hares and rabbits.
He routed the London wing, but pursued them so furiously and so far that whilst he was slaying and hacking the fortunes of the day went against his father.
There were grim stories about those who had yielded to the luxury of slaying these white men--stories of villages razed to the ground and destroyed, of a King himself who had been shot, of vengeance very swift and very merciless.
If only it could be safely done, if only for one moment he could find himself face to face with Da Souza in Bekwando village, where human life was cheap and the slaying of a man an incident scarcely worth noting in the day's events!
Perchance two white outcastes, father and son, who with a party of men are scouring the forest and slaying everything, fall upon the path which the women have taken shortly before.
Some struck at the horses with their swords, hamstringing several of them, and slaying their riders as they fell.
He has his headquarters on the summit of Plinlimmon, a great hill on the borders of Montgomery; and thence ravages and plunders all the country round him, slaying all who are supposed to be attached to the English cause.
If both parties met under arms the matter was different; but that, in spite of the slaying of his own father by them, he would not kill even a Baird on his hearthstone.
A knight who has long loved her, but is too cowardly to dare the venture, keeps a watch upon all those who may attack the beast, with the secret intention of, if possible, slaying the victor and taking the credit of the deed to himself.
The most general version appears to be that in which the feat consists in the slaying of a dragon, to be testified by the production of the head.
After a fierce conflict, in which he is desperately wounded, he succeeds in slaying them, and secures the white foot.
The natives of some of the Polynesian Islands consider that they render a service to their aged parents by slaying them, and that, by eating them, they provide the most honourable mode of sepulture.
Njal was too wise a man not to know that Hallgerda would seek revenge on Atli for the slaying of Kol, and he begged Atli would take service far away to the east, so that Hallgerda might not reach him.
But besides slaying the cow, he did many other noble deeds of which you may like to hear, so we had better begin at the beginning and learn who Sir Guy really was.
And in a little while Bevis was raised to higher favour than ever by slaying a boar which had carried away and eaten several children on the outskirts of the city.
Now all men knew that at the next Thing a suit would be brought for the slaying of Hauskuld, and Njal and his sons made ready to fare to it, and to hear the award which should be given.
Verily,' thought Sir Guy to himself, 'the fight of old with the great Dun Cow was as the slaying of a puppy in comparison with this!
Then Odin hurls his javelin wide around, Slaying the wretched denizens of earth To gorge himself with plunder: blood doth cleave E’en to the robe of peace: where then repose Can find the weary wand’rer?
The letter B on the first page is filled by an exquisite miniature of the Royal Psalmist; and in the lower part of the border is the slaying by an infantile David, of Goliath, represented as a gigantic knight in chain armour.
Saint George slaying the dragon, and the Princess Saba kneeling at the side.
And here is one who shall judge whether Glumm and I are to blame for slaying these men.
Would ye rob Erling of the honour of slaying this noted berserk?
This is a sufficient measure of his power, and indeed the strength of the infidels is broken by the slaying of their leader, for he was a fierce warrior and a stubborn devil.
King Afridoun rejoiced in the recovery of his daughter and the death of King Omar and sent to all countries, to seek succour and acquaint the folk with the reason of the slaying of King Omar.
Both in slaying Him, and in continuing to deny Him, they have fulfilled the prophecies (Isa.
The Jews, in slaying Him in order not to receive Him as the Messiah, have given Him the final proof of being the Messiah.
If so, the practice of slaying the wren represents the custom of killing the king "of the woods" at a later stage of development.
But there is no reference to the sacrificial slaying of the bird, as far as I am aware.
Murder, that is the killing of a member of the tribe (for the slaying of a potential enemy was a virtue rather than a crime), was punished by the kopega.
I imagine that in place of desperate assaults upon fortified strongholds, as in Tonga and New Zealand, the Niuean warrior contented himself with cutting off defenceless stragglers and slaying individuals by ambush.
Once on deck, however, the ball rolled of itself, for the captain had rigged a mine, which the king fired with a button, sending a volcano of water into the air and slayinginnumerable fish.
Phinehas, by slaying Zimri, is said to have "made atonement for the children of Israel.
Upon this, being yet further animated, they joined battle, and victoriously slaying eight thousand men, took the camp.
Having spent his life in brave and glorious actions, he died at last in the chief command, for the thirteenth time, of the Boeotians, fighting bravely and in the act of slaying a tyrant, in defense of the liberty of the Thessalians.
You would then have seen pillagers active to do mischief, running through the town, slaying men, women, and children, according to their commands.
Which king, by name Chaltzantzin, foretold that in the later ages there should come an army of fair and bearded men from the eastward, who would prevail over the people of his race: slaying many, and making of the remainder slaves.
