Edward the King and his great lords had made war in France with a screaming of trumpets, a humming of bow-strings, and the clash of ash-staved spears.
A red stream came trickling out of the gateway into the street, for the mob had rolled all the wine barrels into the courtyard and staved them in, letting muscadel and pyment and hypocrasse gush over the stones.
He had staved in the boat, and, as they supposed, afterwards swam to shore; but the crime seemed so singularly motiveless that they finally put it down as the work of a madman.
Whatever the fate of Arthur, and whatever the extent and nature of his influence in Britain, his victories staved off ruin for half a century, but no longer.
When Theodosius the Great died in 395 the Roman Empire was already sorely pressed, but for more than ten years ruin was staved off by the great Vandal Stilicho, guardian of the weak young Emperor Honorius, and Commander-in-Chief in the West.
The bandits commenced by flinging him out of his own door; the larder was pillaged, and after having drunk to their heart's content, they staved in the barrels and swamped the cellars with the wine.
It shall be staved off while I live, but the moment I am gone it will break out.
She had found it distracted, but by her moderation she had staved off civil war, till the country had rallied round the throne.
The life-long quarrel between Elizabeth and Mary could hardly bestaved off.
Mother Necessity, who had been staved off for a few thousand years, came back again, and she began below.
For a time Edward staved off the contest by repeated embassies; but his refusal to accept Philip as a mediator between England and the Scots stirred France to threats of war.
Unable to pay his troops, he staved off their demands by a campaign of sheer pillage.
Then he staved in the wine-vats that the wine might mingle with their blood, and set house and wood-pile on fire.
We had a boat at our stern just before the storm, but she was first staved by dashing against the ship's rudder, and in the next place she broke away, and either sunk or was driven off to sea; so there was no hope from her.
We staved the barrels which held our small stock of provisions, and made a distribution.
On this Captain Nicholls hastily ran aft, and cut the penters of both the boats, otherwise they would have been staved to pieces, and sunk immediately.
The boats were staved in pieces; several of the people endeavored to haul in the jolly-boat, which they were incapable of accomplishing.
The lieutenant then threw his ballast overboard, staved all his water, and then weighed and stood in for the enemy.
But when some twenty or thirty were tumbled into the street, and about half of them staved in, they, for some cause or other, stopped.
Reaching it, theystaved open the doors, and smashed in the windows, and began to pitch the furniture into the street.
Legal proceedings were then commenced against them, but they were staved off, and in the meantime the Legislature had got to work, and took the matter in hand; and Messrs.
Part would be staved in by their fall; those that were not, were seized as they rolled off the sidewalk, and the heads knocked out.
Some of the timbers had been stavedin at the first concussion.
The forts, their casemates staved in, their embrasures destroyed, lustily answered the fire from the heights.
In another moment the Halbrane, staved in, broken up, with gaping planks and shattered ribs, had sunk, causing a tremendous jet of water to spout up at the foot of the iceberg.
It was light enough for him to see that he was still in the boat, but its back was broken and its sides staved in.
For a bit I could not move, and I thought my ribs were staved in; but at last, after much trouble, I made a shift to work myself out and found that I was about fifty feet above the water.
The sea reeled round like a wine-vat splashing with purple dreams, And the sunset-skies were dashed with blood of the grape as the sun like a new-staved barrel Flooded the tumbling West with wine and spattered the clouds with crimson gleams.
He's there in the school-house, broken to a jelly and his head staved in.
Carefully removing the planks, billets, and iron bars with which they were covered, they remarked that two of the casks were staved in, while the hoops from a third were taken off, and the powder scattered around it.
Not content with this, hestaved in the tops of the uppermost tier, and scattered powder among them to secure their instantaneous ignition.
He makes rash bets about things of which he has the best information; so he says; and will not be staved off by those who know what folly he is committing, but insists on writing himself down after Dogberry at the cost of just so much.
Moses, "hast thou staved it in that thou mayest drown its crew?
So they both went on, till they embarked in a ship, and hethe unknownstaved it in.
His pecuniary downfall had now become too much a matter of certainty to be staved off by his presence; and his personal security could hardly be assisted by it.
She had seen enough of life to be aware that suitors would come,--would come as long as that convulsion was staved off.
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