Thus inspired with fresh force he slays his enemy.
She is exposed to the monster, but the hero of the tale, generally a young man of humble birth, interposes in her behalf, slays the monster, and receives the hand of the princess as his reward.
He who slays a tiger, possessed of an evil spirit though it be, shall lose his next of kin by another tiger appearing suddenly in the role of avenger?
It roars at night so that the sound of its voice may be heard a distance of a full day's travel and it slays on sight but does not devour the men it kills.
Songs are singing with thy maidens, Music echoes with thy wives, Rapture slays the grief that ladens All the gladness of their lives.
Proud monarch of the tattered vest, Thy toil is fraught with greater gains Than his that bleeds where warrior crest Slays thousands on the battled plains!
This small, agile, powerful fellow boldly invades the dens and slays the dog, rabbit or other inmates.
On rare occasions a mountain lion comes upon them and slays one or several, while they are almost helpless from weakness or from crusted snow.
He sends Prexaspes to Persia, who slays the son of Cyrus in the chase and buries him with his own hand.
Bahram Gor slays his beloved because she does not sufficiently admire his skill with the bow.
But he voluntarily slays himself at the tomb of Attys.
The Biblical Judith is a widow who slays a public enemy, and returns unscathed amid the plaudits of the multitude.
Every word that fails to restore my child to life slays her once more.
But he escapes, and eventually "he slays all the three heroes, and flings their bodies on the plain for wild beasts to devour.
Coming up with him, she slays him with a single blow, but then takes compassion on him, and restores him to life.
In the Hrólfssaga, the brother attacks the king with an army and slays him.
As already stated, according to the Grottasọngr (from about 950), Frothi is the brother of Halfdan and slays him.
In the Hamlet story, the brother slays the king with his own hand, but secretly, to avoid suspicion.
In the Hrólfssaga, it is Frothi who slays his brother, Halfdan, and marries his widow, Sigrith.
In Havelok, Arthur, likewise, attacks the king with an army and slays him.
Footnote 118: Finnur Jónsson has also been struck by the similarity between the story connected with Bjarki's birth and the second story in the rímur, in which Hjalti slays a bear.
Sigrun is present at the battle, in which, as in the English and Scottish ballads, Helgi slays all her kindred except one brother.
In The Cruel Knight, as here, the hero slays his bride, who is of a hostile family, by mistake.
By the way, Mr. Montelet, who told you the history of this ill-fated stone and its fearful curse of a wandering spirit that slays in the dark?
Phaedra herself declares her passion to Hippolytus, with her own lips reveals to Theseus the pretended outrage to her honour, and slays herself only on hearing of the death of Hippolytus.
The one unwittingly slays the other, strips the slain, and discovers what he has done-- quod fuerat virtus, factum est scelus.
The two brothers are about to strip Sir Guyon, when Prince Arthur comes up and slays both of them.
Una informs Arthur of it, and Arthur liberates the knight and slays the giant (Rev.
He slays Aladine, king of Jerusalem, and plants the Christian standard on the tower of David.
None but the owner has the right to kill game in these dark and awful gullies, and even he must propitiate the soul of every animal that he slays in such a spot.
If he slays me the clouds will be tinged with my blood; they will be red with it, probably.
The Damned Thing gives an example of muscular supernaturalism, for the mysterious being kills a dog in a stiff fight, then later slays the master after a terrible struggle in which the man is disfigured beyond words to describe.
A diabolic apparition eight or nine feet high pursues a monk,[27] and the knight[28] engages in combat with a daemonic giant who slays him.
The Albigenses tell of a young husband who, as a werewolf, slays his bride, then vanishes to be seen no more.
They attempt to thrust him from the road--a contest ensues--he slays the old man and his train.
He meets and slays Hyllus, and the Heraclidae engage not to renew the invasion for one hundred years.
In a flash Krishna slays Kansa's demons and then, leaping on the dais where Kansa is sitting, he seizes him by the hair and hurls him to the ground.
He reaches for his quoit and hurling it through the air, slays Sisupala on the spot.
In other hymns S[=u]rya averts carelessness at the sacrifice, guards the worshipper, and slays demons.
The victory over Vritra is now expounded thus: Indra, who slays Vritra, is the sun.
And therefore he takes upon himself the judgment of sacrifices, and condemns and slays his brother as a heretic.
On the way he slays the centaur Nessus, who persuades Deianeira that his blood is a love-charm.
The David of the light is Purity, who slays the strong Goliath of the dark, and seats the savior, Love, upon the throne.
And Jesus looked about and said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou cruel city of Jerusalem, that slays the prophets in the streets and kills the holy men whom God has sent to you!
Thus even the agriculturist may have spoken of the Sun’s hunts; and even at the agricultural stage myths may still have arisen which spoke of the Sun as a sportsman armed with arrows with which he slays the dragon.
When grown to manhood he contrives to bring together a great army, and becomes involved in a war against his father Kenaʿan, whom he slays in the decisive battle.
The Sun, which daily assails with an iron club and slays the monsters of darkness and the storms, when personified as Herakles does his deeds in a small place in Hellas, Nemea or Lerna.
To the same mythic cycle belongs the circumstance that David slays his giant-foe by casting stones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slays" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
