Grown desperate at last, it reared and threw him, And Indigestion, overtaking, slew him.
Carver, my son, who slew your father, upon him you will find the necklace.
Some say that, in the bitterness of that wrong and outrage, he slew a gentleman of the Court, whom he supposed to have borne a hand in the plundering of his fortunes.
Without once quitting her husband, she slewevery Turk who came within reach of her sword.
The sarcastic Thersites jeered and derided, as usual, till the hero, in a fury, turned on the sneering old wretch and slew him.
His uncles, jealous of the honour thus conferred upon a woman, endeavoured to wrest the trophies from her, and in the scuffle which ensued, Meleager unfortunately slew both his uncles.
But, she also, through constant exercise, acquired marvellous dexterity in using the bow and arrow; and with this weapon she once slew the Centaurs Rhoecus and Hylaeus.
Her father, Demetrius, slew such numbers of the Turks that the gateway was half-blocked up with turbaned corpses.
Marching in the dead of the night, she fell on the encampment of the foe and slew several hundred men.
Aben Mohamed fled by a gate leading to the gardens, to take shelter in the tower of Almodovar; but the assassins overtook him, and slew him on a hill near the tower.
The latter, seeing the Christians coming after them full speed, urged their horses up the hill towards the castle, but the Christians overtook them and slew seven of those in the rear.
The contest was fierce, but broken; many of the Moors took refuge in the river, but the Christians followed andslew them among the waves.
Covering themselves with their shields, they attacked each other with great fury; but the days of Gustios Gonzalo were numbered, and the Moor slew him, and with him fell a nephew of Count Fernan, and many of his principal cavaliers.
That he who slew another, or committed any other grave offense, should make equal measure of atonement.
Of the two women, the elder slew the younger, and then slew herself.
Nay," said M'Bongwele; "I slew but the twelve white men.
Also you slew twelve white men and two white women who were found in distress by your people, although you knew that such acts were displeasing to us, and that we had forbidden them," asserted the professor.
They have slain him, as they slew Crescentius," and a shower of stones hailed against the walls of the palace.
Thus the French slew two thousand of those common folk whom the Godons were accustomed to transport from their own land to be killed in France.
They slew the watch and entered the camp, where they found piles of money, robes of martin, and a goodly store of weapons.
If however a damsel corrupt and no longer a maid approached it, the unicorn slew her immediately.
And at the first blow he slew Sir Agravaine, and after him twelve other knights, with twelve more mighty buffets.
Therewith she turned and cried, "By my faith, this is the felon knight who slew thy uncle!
Then King Arthur, with his mightiest knights, rode down into the thickest of the fight, and drew Excalibur, and slewas lightning slays for swiftness and for force.
I pray ye of your knighthood help my brother, who is sore wounded and ceases not to bleed, for he fought this day with Sir Gilbert, and slew him, but was himself well nigh slain.
That day King Arthur by himself alone slew with his sword Excalibur four hundred and seventy heathens.
Balaam was thirty-three years of age when Phineas, the robber, slew him.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw there was no man, he slew the Egyptian.
Cain slew Abel his brother, whose blood was trodden down on the earth, He cursed the ground, and immediately hills and mountains sprang into existence.
Because the physiognomy of Esau was exactly like that of Jacob, and it was out of respect to the latter that he slew Esau from behind.
His legionaries occupied a slight hillock, and endeavored to make a wall of their shields, but the Parthian archers closed around them, and slew them almost to a man.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
I wish there wasn't going to be any," said Brockway; but the manner in which he attacked the cold chicken slew the pessimism in the remark.
President, and the steady gaze of the cold eye slew the falsehood which the secretary was about to utter.
From Murom I rode to Tschernigof, and there I slew a great host of pagans and saved the city.
She will know you as soon as she sees you, and you will also be recognised by the archer who so wickedly slew you.
David then ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and slew him.
It was the sword with which the Church slew the proud Goliath of heresy.
Thus the devil, by God's permission, slew Job's children, deprived him of his possessions and afflicted him with painful and loathsome maladies.
David, with God's assistance, his only weapon a pebble, slewthe giant.
For this shadow then the Greeks and Trojans slew each other.
St Theodore, who slew a dragon in the vicinity and became one of the great warrior saints of the Greek Church.
And soon, When sundawn slew the withering moon, Two hosts were met to win the boon Whose tale is death’s to tell.
Forth sprang their swords, and Balen slew The knave ere well one witness knew Of all that round them stood or drew What sight was there to see.
This good knight found within her bower A felon and her paramour, And slew him in his shameful hour, As right gave might and righteous power To hands that wreaked so foul a wrong.
Then he cried Loud to his lady, “Give me here The truncheon of the shameful spear Wherewith he slew your knight, when fear Bade hate in darkness ride.
Diomed son of Tydeus slewthem both and stripped them of their armour, while Ulysses killed Hippodamus and Hypeirochus.
Neither was it through any sloth or slackness on our part that the Trojans stripped Patroclus of his armour; it was the mighty god whom lovely Leto bore that slew him as he fought among the foremost, and vouchsafed a triumph to Hector.
Would you have men eat while the bodies of those whom Hector son of Priam sleware still lying mangled upon the plain?
First Antilochus slew an armed warrior of the Trojans, Echepolus, son of Thalysius, fighting in the foremost ranks.
There I slew the last man and left him; then the Achaeans drove their horses back from Buprasium to Pylos and gave thanks to Jove among the gods, and among mortal men to Nestor.
He slew Othryoneus from Cabesus, a sojourner, who had but lately come to take part in the war.
Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart, spare me, for I am not of the same womb as Hector who slew your brave and noble comrade.
Foot soldiers drove the foot soldiers of the foe in rout before them, and slew them; horsemen did the like by horsemen, and the thundering tramp of the horses raised a cloud of dust from off the plain.
Leitus killed Phylacus as he was flying, and Eurypylus slew Melanthus.
Chromis, and Ennomus the augur, led the Mysians, but his skill in augury availed not to save him from destruction, for he fell by the hand of the fleet descendant of Aeacus in the river, where he slew others also of the Trojans.
Now to-day God's church throughout all the globe celebrates the festival of the blessed children whom the cruel Herod, on account of the birth of Christ, slew in impious persecution, as the evangelical narrative manifestly makes known to us.
Herod beheaded the apostle James, and brought Peter into prison, but God saved him from his captivity, and when the king was inquiring how he came out of the prison, God's angel came to him afterwards and slew him to death.
Then on that night God's angel went, andslew of the Assyrian king's army a hundred and eighty-five thousand men.
Now again, the Jewish people who slew Christ, as he himself would and permitted, say that they will believe in the Father, and not in the Son whom their forefathers slew.
But the accursed Herodias slew him by beheading, and received the death of so great a man as a gift for her daughter's dancing.
He destroyed the murderers, because he fiercely slew the impious persecutors, as we read everywhere in the passions of the martyrs.
It happened then that he was praying to his idol, and his two sons slew him with the sword, as the prophet through the Spirit of God had prophesied.
They preached until the wicked slew them, and they went triumphant to their Lord.
Astryges, the Indian king, who slew Bartholomew, became mad, and in a fit of madness departed.
Morvidus, another earl of the same family, a man of wonderful valour, slew a giant with a young tree torn up by the roots and hastily trimmed of its boughs.
Gentlemen of blood and coat-armour imperfect; the third in lineal descent from him who slew a Saracen gentleman, &c.
The movements failed to synchronise, and the Quirini section encountered in the Piazza, not their allies from the Merceria, but a ducal force which scattered them and slew their leader and his son.
Before he arrived, the partizans of Carlotta burst into the palace, slew Caterina's physician before her eyes and cut in pieces her uncle Andrea and her cousin Bembo who were hasting to her aid.
He took flesh and entering the world, slew demons, heartened the righteous and from time to time conferred salvation by directly exempting individuals from further re-births.
The kingdoms might have outwardly composed their quarrels; but private feuds remained, and even the Martyrs and the Covenanters had their relapses, and loved and sang and slew under the impulse of earthly passion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
