How To Use Slain In A Sentence
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The lorde, Generall perceiuing that many men were slaine with the ordenance, caused fiue peeces of brasse to bee brought from the castle which we had taken the daie before, and towarde the euening we beganne to make a battery, and the same euening brought into it three peeces, whereof two were placed presentlie to play vppon the Castle and the hill; but that euening were but fiue or sixe shotte made.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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King Richard, as a just guerdon for all his fascinorous actions and horrible murders, was slain in the field.
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Now Tyndareus bestowed me on thy father not that I or any children I might bear should be slain.
Electra
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And further, it seemeth very likely that the inhabitants of the most part of those countries, by which they must have come any other way besides by the north-west, being for the most part anthropophagi, or men-eaters, would have devoured them, slain them, or, at the leastwise, kept them as wonders for the gaze.
The North-West Passage
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Barnes was slain in a double murder one week before the Baltimore Ravens selected Lewis in the first round of the 1996 NFL draft.
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I felt this to have been a very dangerous proceeding, for if le bon Dieu had noticed Ghislaine's travesty, He might have made the wind turn, and she would then have remained a deviless and been forced to live in hell for all eternity.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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Neuerthelesse, the rumour was great, and they rang alarme: wherefore the sayd slaues comming to prison, as it was ordeined in al the alarmes, were met of the people, which in great anger put them to death: so that there were slaine an hundred and moe the same day.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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They often fought each other and attacked humans until slain by a brave hero, frequently at an ancient site.
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I told Saul the story about my sheep and how I had slain thelion which managed to convince him to let me go fight Goliath.
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The people there have slain some of his followers, forced him to fly for his life, and refused to pay scatt to a
Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell
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I wrestled in Gethsemane, I cried and I was slain,
Catholic Tales and Christian Songs
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Zion thus calls her kinsmen (Ro 11: 14) slain throughout the country or carried captives to Babylon [Grotius].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The high priest having done this, perfumed the sanctuary, returned to the door, took the blood of the slain bullock, and, carrying it into the holy of holies, sprinkled it with his finger once upon the mercy seat "eastward" -- that is, on the side next to himself; and seven times "before the mercy seat" -- that is, on the front of the ark.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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..ah, sure an' it's slainte' right back at ya, mcbuike...
Misinformation: Simple Bikes Can Do Amazing Things
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He had cut notches into the wooden surface of the longbow, counting how many foes he had slain with the weapon; so far there were forty-nine marks.
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So the unhappy mother had pierced her breast with a dagger, and, by her side, similarly self-slain, lay the serving woman who had miscounselled her to wrongdoing, yet, as I could quite well comprehend, from motives of sincere affection, to safeguard for her her husband's love and to give her the joy of motherhood for which she craved.
Tales of Destiny
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If St. Michael had stepped down from a church window, leaving the dragon slain, he would have looked no otherwise than she, all gleaming with steel, and with grey eyes full of promise of victory: the holy sword girdled about her, and a little battle-axe hanging from her saddle-girth.
A Monk of Fife
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Wren, the daughter of a southern chieftain slain in battle by Alobar's predecessor, was even duskier.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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Those steeds and elephants and human beings that formed the (unslain) remnant of the (Pandava) host uttered loud cries when thy son fell.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Then she took reckoning of the dead and found that he had slain fourscore of the Knights, and other twenty had taken to flight. 202 When she saw what work he had made with them she said to him, Allah bless thee, O Sharrkan!
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It was also part of the world-empire of Ghenghis Khan, who once exterminated the Afghan city of Bamiyan to avenge a grandson slain in battle.
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Then stood Regin staring on the earth a long while, and presently thereafter spake from heavy-mood: “Mine own brother hast thou slain, and scarce may I be called sackless of the deed.”
The Story of the Volsungs
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'If I slay thee, thou hireling dog, as I have often slain thy clodpated countrymen in other days,' and the Frenchman laughed fiercely, 'by St. Denis!
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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God hath placed Him in the midst of His throne as a Lamb, as it had been slain, and it is thus that the hosts of heaven adore Him.
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I have slain men, many men, for love of woman, or in warm blood have baptized our nuptials or washed away the stain of her favour to another.
Chapter 21
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As I did so the funeral bell rang out, and it came to me, as though the One above had spoken, that peace would be slain and His name insulted by all of you -- by all of you, Catholic and Protestant.
The World for Sale, Volume 2.
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Ghislaine sang in a ravishing fashion, and Yves accompanied her on the clavecin that stood in the petit salon, mingling the grave accents of his baritone with her clear soprano.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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But the Dutch Folk say that they slew him out in the wood: and so sayeth the ancient song of Gudrun, that Sigurd and the sons of Giuki were riding to the Thing whenas he was slain.
The Story of the Volsungs
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In the same manner (says Blackstone,) by the Irish brehon law, in case of murder, the brehon or judge, compounded between the murderer and the friends of the deceased, who prosecuted him, by causing the malefactor to give unto them, or to the child or wife of him that was slain, a recompense, which they called _eriach_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832
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This claim to glory, doubtless exaggerated in stereotypical Gascon fashion, caricatures, indeed cleverly reverses the terms of Soyer's own, far less swashbuckling role in the July Days — Mirobolant would have slain elite troops while standing his ground in the street, whereas Soyer was nearly lynched by a revolutionary mob while fleeing from a palace kitchen.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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President Heartslain threw to her a thick yellow folder with a 100-page report.
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And there he pight many pavilions, and there was great war made on both parties, and much people slain.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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In one place we read of the surprisal of an Indian fort in the night, when the wigwams were wrapped in flames, and the miserable inhabitants shot down and slain in attempting to escape, “all being despatched and ended in the course of an hour.”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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I am irish and while i think the no plastic bag law has been greatly recieved, the problem is that many big stores still what you to be a walking advertisement, when you purchase something from their store. so what many of them offer (or rather hand you), is a high glossy paper bag. when you consider that a regular brown paper bag takes 15time more energy to produce (i acknowledge that this is only one stage of the lifecylce), however considering this production energy you can imagine the energy and enviromental costs of these high gloss/high print paper. my central point then i guess is: the tax levy on plastic bags may be good, however this paper bag adoption is tainted. it gives the irish consumers a get out of jail free card. tighter legislation needs to be inplaced before anyone gets a pat on the back. slainte
KILL PLASTIC BAGS WITH TAXES: look to Ireland | Inhabitat
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It is not likely that this selfish and unwarlike pedant -- a "nithing", as they probably called him -- had ever been aught but a most unwelcome necessity to the lion-hearted Ostrogoths, and for all but the families and friends of the three slain noblemen, the imprisonment and the permitted murder of his benefactress must have deepened dislike into horror.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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Many dwarves were slain, but so were the humanoids.
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Turkes, and many of them were slaine with shot of our artillerie, and of our men but one.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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DAMN WHAT A SHAME IT IS SINCE THAT DAY, when the leader of hate to our white house came, when our collective soul was taught to blame, or better up, that to slain is the truest and sweetest game, or how we all now proudly do proclaim … Oh how we love to kill in the name of the great and fearsome U.S.A.
Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces
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The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give way until they were surrounded and routed by the missiles of the
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression.
PodCastle » 2010 » February
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Thus the bracketing of hull and basketwork trap also instils notions of the fisherman and his catch, the hunter and his quarry, the slayer and the slain.
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To embrew the hands in such blood is double Murder, as it murders not only the Person slain, but kills the Happiness of the orphaned Children, depriving them of
A Book of Scoundrels
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And beside it is Keola, slain ere his time and made into a spear-head for love of the woman whose shin-bone abides near to him.
SHIN-BONES
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Mithra was slain upon a cross in Persia to make atonement for humankind and take away the sins of the world.
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Having slain those Kurus -- our kinsmen, that is, our friends and well-wishers, -- we shall have to sink in hell, beads (hanging) downwards.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
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I could tell of the murder of that poor son of Zeus, whom Procne, mother of an only child, slew and offered to the Muses; but thou hadst three children, wretched parent, and all of them hast thou in thy frenzy slain.
Heracles
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So does this have something to do with Theseus in the labyrinth, having slain the Minotaur, retracing his steps with Ariadne's thread?
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Raise your glass of Guinness and give a hearty slainte to St. Paddy.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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Phil Spector, signaling a possible shift in tactics by the defense, which had promised not to "besmirch" slain actress Lana Clarkson.
Undefined
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Men call Ethelbert a martyr now, I suppose because he was slain.
A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford
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And as for the slain pigs, lest they spoil, he made of their carcasses a great feast.
CHAPTER XIX
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(From Amazon. com): With King Olin imprisoned and Prince Kendrick slain, the royal twins Barrick and Briony have been forced to flee their homeland.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR FEBRUARY 28TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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Launcelot thrang in the thick of the press; and as they were unarmed he smote them and wist not whom that he smote, and so unhappily they were slain.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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To rouse themselves, they kick off the festivities with "Soldiers of the Cross, Arise," the bloodthirstiest tune in all of Christendom: "Seize your armor, gird it on/Now the battle will be won/Soon, your enemies all slain/Crowns of glory you shall gain.
THE DOMINIONISTS / FAR RIGHT THREAT TO AMERICA
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A Pump Wagon is dependent on its crew for mobility, so once its crew are all slain it can not move.
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What! hapless Polymestor, who hath stricken thee? who hath reft thine eves of sight, staining the pupils with blood? who hath slain these children? whoe'er he was, fierce must have been his wrath against thee and thy children.
Hecuba
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At the same time, the number of Iraqis found slain, apparently in tit-for-tat killings by Shiite and Sunni extremists, has sharply increased in western neighborhoods.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 17, 2006
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Herevpon king Richard, not minding to be so mocked at their hands, approched one daie to the wals and gates with his armie in good araie of battell to giue the assault, [Sidenote: K. Richard assalteth and entreth the citie by force.] which was doone so earnestlie, and so well mainteined, that finallie the citie was entred by force, and manie of the citizens slaine, but the slaughter had béene much greater, if king
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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But in the February of 1429 -- four days before the Maid of Domremy set forth from her voice-haunted Bois Chenu to bring about a certain coronation in Rheims Church and in Rouen Square a flamy martyrdom -- four days before the coming of the good Lorrainer, Fulke d'Arnaye was slain at
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages
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The multitude fled with precipitation towards the city; several were slain, and many more were trampled to death; but when the cavalry entered the streets, their pursuit was checked by a shower of stones and darts from the roofs and windows of the houses.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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[126] It was formerly suggested that the fact of the Mahars being the chief worshippers at the shrines of Sheikh Farid indicated that the places themselves had been previously held sacred, and had been annexed by the Muhammadan priests; and the legend of the giant, who might represent the demonolatry of the aboriginal faith, being slain by the saint might be a parable, so to say, expressing this process.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
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Sir Gaheris upon the brain-pans, wherethrough they were slain in the field; howbeit in very truth Sir Launcelot saw them not, and so were they found dead among the thickest of the press.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Hundreds of people gathered to mourn the slain president.
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All had been slain cruelly, their eyes cut from their heads, their backs flayed with heavy whips until the ribs showed.
Archive 2009-12-01
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Then all that was left unslain of their cavalry turned and fled far away.
The Lord of the Rings
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Thirty Flemings, who had taken refuge in the churches, were dragged from the altar and were beheaded, thirty-two others were seized in the vintry and also slain.
A March on London
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For the fables that are storied and related about the discerption of Bacchus, and the attempts of the Titans upon him, and of their tasting of his slain body, and of their several punishments and fulminations afterwards, are but a representation of the regeneration.
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Ingersoll traces all images of the dragon back to Tiamat, the watery, primordial goddess slain by Marduk in the Enuma Elish, a Babylonian version of the combat myth; as they appear in various myths around the world, dragons are typicallly associated with water, though in different contexts, so that some are rain gods, some are guardians of underground pools, and some are chthonic representatives of the chaotic sea.
You Go, Greydanus, or, O'Brien and the Dragon
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Then gave I myself to the sea, but the billows thereof cast me out aland, and to this king then was I given; then gave I Swanhild away out of the land with mighty wealth; and lo, my next greatest sorrow after Sigurd, for under horses feet was she trodden and slain; but the grimmest and ugliest of woes was the casting of Gunnar into the Worm-close, and the hardest was the cutting of
The Story of the Volsungs
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Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, "so all atonements ever made were only effectual by His blood" [Bishop Pearson, Exposition of the Creed].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The tour guide tells us the rules of the bullfight, about famous bullfighters, and a story of a cow that sought revenge for her slain bull-son, only to be killed herself.
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Seven senior federal law enforcement officers from Baja California have been slain in the past year.
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And then in the name of that right, shall I not slay them for murdering their Queen, and be slain in my turn by their countrymen as the invader of their fatherland?
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Yes, fixed-gear freestyle impresario and streetwear enthusiast Prolly reports that a fixed-gear freestyler in Japan has finally "slain" a backflip:
Flipping the Script: Upside Down and Against the Wind
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By some instinct I told them at once about James Hinton, whom, of course, they knew by name as the first aurist of his day; how, with all that this life could give him, he had died of a broken heart, a heart broken over the lost and degraded womanhood of England, the hosts of young girls slain in body and soul whom he met with at night in our terrible streets.
The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
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To the Pima, the Hohokam were a people of myth and legend, boastful predecessors who had been slain by the Pima's great hero, Elder Brother.
A Doomed People
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They often fought each other and attacked humans until slain by a brave hero, frequently at an ancient site.
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Many were slain on the field, and such a number in the pursuit, that above one-third of the Covenanters were reported to have fallen; in which number, however, must be computed a great many fat burgesses who broke their wind in the flight, and thus died without stroke of sword. named Alister, or Alexander M ` Donnell, by birth a Scottish islesman, and related to the Earl of Antrim, to whose patronage he owed the command assigned him in the Irish troops.
A Legend of Montrose
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Lute crawled out from under the piano, and was joined by Rita and Ernestine in an extemporized dance of the harpies about the slain.
CHAPTER III
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The slain are scalped, that is, the scalp is circularly incised in the hairy part of the head and torn from the skull.
A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
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With its demoniac passions, its satanic ambition, desecrating the remains of the slain, making goblets of their skulls, and trinkets of their bones, this revolt is a heliograph of Dahomey, and Devildom daguerreotyped more vividly than by
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The fift day of the sayd moneth our master gunner was slaine with a gunne, which was great losse for vs at that time.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Here's health, or slainte, as we say in Irish, and good wishes for the years ahead.
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Iraq promised to pay compensation to the families of the 37 slain seamen, and reparations for damages to the frigate.
Matthew Yglesias » Iraqi Civil War: Now With Better Drive Shafts
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And if anything, it's got better, so slainte.
Times, Sunday Times
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Aaron ... went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering -- Whether it had been enjoined the first time, or was unavoidable from the divisions of the priestly labor not being as yet completely arranged, Aaron, assisted by his sons, appears to have slain the victims with his own hands, as well as gone through all the prescribed ritual at the altar.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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By the conduct and courage of Johanan, though the death of the slain is not revenged, yet the prisoners are recovered, and he now becomes their commander-in-chief, ver.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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In the lowlands of Ecuador, Jivaro warriors traditionally used infusions of guayusa to purify themselves and their families before shrinking the heads of their slain enemies.
One River
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But it seemeth to be very true, that there is some kind of castigation which Law permits a Husband to vse; for if a woman be threatned by her husband to bee beaten, mischieued, or slaine, Fitzherbert sets donne a
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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Its old names, Danewort and Walewort (wal-slaughter) are supposed to be traceable to an old belief that it sprang from the blood of slain Danes - it grows near Slaughterford in Wilts, that being the site of a great Danish battle.
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Skadi misdoubted the tale of Sigi, and deemed that this was a guile of his, and that he would have slain Bredi.
The Story of the Volsungs
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Although Munir never claimed that his efforts were intended to protect women's rights, many women activists viewed the slain campaigner as a champion of women's rights.
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The only reason dragons could kill these creatures was because they do have physical bodies, and that body can be slain.
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The 773-page compilation resurrects St. George, the dragon-slayer who was slain himself at Lydda in Palestine around 303 A.D. and is the patron of soldiers, knights, archers and armorers.
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Then they rode thither—his ealdorman Osric and his thegn Wigfrith and the men he had left behind him—and discovered the atheling in the stronghold where the king lay slain—and they had locked the gates against them—and they went thither.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
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Before him slain lay that most murderous hound Orthros, in furious might like Kerberos his brother-hound: a herdman lay thereby, Eurytion, all bedabbled with his blood.
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Ramaphosa also refloated the call slain communist leader Chris
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Curiatij that were slaine, who meeting her brother in the triumphe, at one of the gates called Capena, and knowing the coate armure of her paramour, borne vpon her brothers shoulders, which she had wrought and made with her owne handes: She tore and rent the heare of her heade, and most piteouslye bewayled the death of her beloued.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Of her they said that desiring to take vengeance for her brother, whom the Egyptians had slain when he was their king and then, after having slain, him he had given his kingdom to her, desiring, I say, to take vengeance for him, she destroyed by craft many of the Egyptians.
An Account of Egypt: Being the Second Book of His Histories Called Euterpe. Paras. 20-39
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The gold-pommelled sword was still gripped in his single hand and his soul was fleeing for Limbo as Uroch, too, was slain fighting.
The Bane of the Black Sword
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Mr. Slaine, after he was approached by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in July 2007, became a key cooperator in gathering evidence for the government in a much broader insider-trading probe.
No Jail Time for Cooperating Trader
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Bumiller mistakenly defines Valkyries as ‘warrior women,’ when the dictionary describes them the handmaids of Odin, riding on horseback, escorting slain heroes to Valhalla.
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However, the Nez Perce themselves placed their origins in the blood of a mythical monster slain by the culture hero Coyote.
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In the same sector, on the evening of February 22, 2003, a dog was slain by the beast that prowls the Candelero Abajo Sector.
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Now when the Knights and riders who rode with her sire saw his three sons slain, who were the doughtiest of the folk of their day, there fell on their hearts terror of the Princess Miriam, awe of her overpowered them; they bowed their heads earthwards and they made sure of ruin and confusion, disgrace and destruction.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
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Edward M.. Kennedy, the younger brother of the slain president, would be his 1972 rival.
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When they saw us, they pointed at Kamlot, and I heard them telling some of the sailors that he was the one who had slain the basto with a single sword thrust, a feat which appeared to force their admiration, as well it might have.
Pirates of Venus
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a picture of St. George and the slain dragon
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For the unchangeable God governs the world on the same unchangeable principles. thou shall lie in ... uncircumcised -- As circumcision was an object of mocking to thee, thou shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, slain by their sword [Grotius].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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And there were all the knights of the Round Table, [save] only those that were prisoners or slain at a recounter.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Thereupon the captain clapped hand to sword and smote the speaker’s head, nor did he leave smiting the rest of the sailors till he had slain them all, one after other, and cast the ten bodies ashore.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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With a hearty slainte and B'eannachtam na Femle Padraig enjoy the following recipes.
Ottawa Sun
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Life on Mars (“Coffee, Tea or Annie”) – Slain stewardess turns out to be the spitting image of Annie, so she goes undercover to find the murderer.
Sci Fi TV Briefs – Kings Rules
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An eternity of wheezy, sensitive romance later, your lover is slain, your bath drawn and now the blade is at your own flesh.
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Near to the beginning, we gathered together the women, and elders, and children we had not slain, and forced them out through the wall they had builded.
Chapter 21
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The funniest is "Impossible" by Herval and Aris, featuring a toy airplane with an unrequited crush, though is has some close competition in "Mousetrap" by Johane Matte, Ghislain Barbe, and Eric Baptizat and "The Flying Bride," which seems to be missing attribution, and "Icarus" by Johane and Matte, which indicates that Dedalus's invention of those wings was a long and painful time coming.
Book Review: Flight Volume 2
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Al-Hosayn, on the other hand, was slain and decapitated at Kerbela.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Josiah, in which he advised him by messengers not to oppose him in his march against Carchemish, are said to have proceeded from the mouth of God; and that Josiah, not hearkening to them, was slain in the battle; as is to be read II Chronicles, 35. 21,
Leviathan
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Thou always speakest, O suta, of my troops as being slaughtered, and thou always speakest of the Pandavas as both unslain and cheerful.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7
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Michael Mitchell had a satisfying little existence going until the tragic day his son was slain in a gangland shootout.
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Some slain foes drop flags that can be adjusted to spawn warriors of their faction type at timed intervals.
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Louhi sent Otso the Bear, the honey-eater, but he was slain by the hero, who made a banquet of his flesh for the people.
National Epics
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He is in any case at thy mercy and the slain of thy sword, if his wife be not found in thy dominions; and whensoever thou desireth his presence, I can bring him back to thee.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Kingdoms have fallen, battles are fought and thousands are slain.
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If thou dost not act so, the Kurus will surely meet with destruction, for neither Bhimasena nor Arjuna, if angry, will leave any of their foes unslain.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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When the police find someone slain, they call on their resident cracker to interrogate.
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Family, friends, attend funeral for UVa. slain lacrosse player
College Sports News: Hockey, Lacrosse and Other NCAA Sports News
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Before the end of the film, Chris must come of age, Deel must be slain, and the bond of brotherhood has to be shown to be the most important in the world.
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On fire when reflecting on the losses she had sustained, mourning over friends slain and kingdoms lost, the proudest and most passionate of princesses was ill suited to dwell with the gayest and best-humored of sovereigns, whose pursuits she contemned, and whose lightness of temper, for finding comfort in such trifles, she could not forgive.
Anne of Geierstein
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And they sacrificed all that men could provide for sacrifice on a desolate strand; wherefore when Medea's Phaeacian handmaids saw them pouring water for libations on the burning brands, they could no longer restrain laughter within their bosoms, for that ever they had seen oxen in plenty slain in the halls of Alcinous.
The Argonautica
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A large, stuffed, slain caribou is thrown in for dramatic effect.
Palin as Art
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At first the awed and fascinated occupants of Alexander thought it must be blood from a slain whale, then realized that no leviathan could exsanguinate enough to dye the water scarlet as far as the eye could see.
Morgan’s Run
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Beholding that feat of Shalya and reflecting upon the fact that the hero who had been allotted to him as his share still remained unslain, the son of Pandu firmly set his heart upon accomplishing that which
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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They had been whites, all of them, these poor murdered people, and they had been slain singly, in pairs, and in parties.
THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
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The one albatross it would be deeply unfair to hang around his neck is the one people seem to have already slain and roped for him.
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Even if he had slain the government on tax cuts, he could not have won.
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If I hadn't got them autographs and they'd found out I'd been in the great woman's orbit, they'd have slain me.
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A smaller, lower battle flag will fly in front of the capitol, beside a monument to slain Confederate soldiers.
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The memorial service for the slain leader erupted into a riot Saturday.
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The waters choked with slain, the earth bedrenched with blood!
Some Poems
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ALGIERS - Moslem fundamentalists ambushed and killed an Algerian state television journalist, the seventh local journalist to be slain in five months, Algiers radio reported.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Approximately half the hostages were slain during the predawn hours, while the remaining half were released after being beaten and tortured.
A Covert Affair
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Lamb slain from the foundation of the world -- The Greek order of words favors this translation.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In the shallows fell the Captain, foully slain, and rose no more!
The Voyage of Magellan
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Here the pursuers burst in with them, and after getting in were beaten out by the Syracusans, and some few of the Argives and Athenians slain; after which the whole army retired, and having demolished the counterwork and pulled up the stockade, carried away the stakes to their own lines, and set up a trophy.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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To embrew the hands in such blood is double Murder, as it murders not only the Person slain, but kills the Happiness of the orphaned Children, depriving them of Bread, and forcing them upon wicked Ways of getting a Maintenance, which often terminate in Newgate and an ignominious death.
A Book of Scoundrels
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Before they could reach the Ghul, the enemy had slain his steed and taken him prisoner; but they ceased not to charge the Infidels, till the day grew dark for dust and eyes were blinded, and the sharp sword clanged while firm stood the valiant cavalier and destruction overtook the faint-heart in his fear; till the Moslems were amongst the Paynims like a white patch on a black bull. —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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[21] I might also mention the sentiment of Count Conigsmarck, who allowed, that the barbarous assassination of Mr. Thynne by his bravoes was a slain on his blood, but such a one as a good action in the wars, or a lodging on a counterscarp, would easily wash out.
The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
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Launcelot, and now I am siker that I shall never finish my quest, for ye have slain me with your hands.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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For every stud of silver on his casque of bronze he must have fought in a pitched battle; and for each tuft of hair upon his charger’s poitrel he must have slain a foe in hand-to-hand encounter.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
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According to the police the face of the slain person was hit with a boulder and it was badly mutilated.
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The sword of the slain is the sword of the great men that are slain, v. 14.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The 22-year-old found a different way to honor the slain Beatle in the bustling crowd of admirers: He sat alone on a bench with earphones on, listening to Lennon's music on his iPod while reading his book "Skywriting By Word of Mouth.
John Lennon's 70th Celebrated In Central Park
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If he be a metic, let him be absent for a year, or if he be an entire stranger, in addition to the purification, whether he have slain a stranger, or a metic, or a citizen, he shall be banished for life from the country which is in possession of our laws.
Laws
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‘Who has slain the lindworm?’ he asked of his children; there were so many that he did not at first miss the two which the lindworm had eaten.
The Crimson Fairy Book
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U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., late Saturday near his slain brothers, President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy.
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Send the maiden out to join her father, for the lustral water stands there ready, and barley-meal to scatter with the hand on the cleansing flame, and heifers to be slain in honour of the goddess Artemis, to usher in the marriage, their black blood spouting from them.
Iphigenia at Aulis
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The unslain remnant of the (assembled) kings with Yudhishthira at their head, and Dhritarashtra and Krishna and Bhima and Arjuna and the twins also came there.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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The slain bodies of the townspeople had been given the ritual burial, cremated in the fire, their souls sent to the afterlife to live in peace.
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The valiant Bhimasena, clad in mail, received those warriors rushing quickly at him from among the unslain remnant of that ocean of troops.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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The slain Mungiki adherent is the fourth sect member to be killed by police after members of the outlawed sect hacked two police officers and set their bodies ablaze last Wednesday.
Police Shoot Mungiki Sect Suspect Dead
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My father is since dead, and my Lady mother is left without help and without counsel, wherefore hath a certain man reaved her of her land and her castles and slain her men.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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He was called a valiant and a hardy man and did so much by his prowess, that under the banner of the earl of Moray he did such valiantness in arms, that the Scots had marvel thereof, and so was slain in fighting: the Scots would gladly have taken him alive, but he would never yield, he hoped ever to have been rescued.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Though thou hast slain the chiefs of the Arabs, yet, perdie, Thou shalt not 'scape this day from those that follow thee!
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
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What! hapless Polymestor, who hath stricken thee? who hath reft thine eves of sight, staining the pupils with blood? who hath slain these children? whoe'er he was, fierce must have been his wrath against thee and thy children.
Hecuba
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Dante (Purgatorio, XX, 86) lays more stress on the moral violence, though his words easily convey the notion of physical wrong: "I see the flower-de-luce Anagni enter, and Christ in his own Vicar captive made; I see him yet another time derided; I see renewed the vinegar and gall, and between living thieves I see him slain.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains.
Waverley
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(The jackal, or 'pathfinder' -- whose tracks sometimes lead to the remains of a food-animal slain by a lion, and many birds and insects, have a value of this kind.) "The use of animal totems for purposes of augury is, in all likelihood, of great antiquity.
Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning
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It centers around the slain but risen Lamb, and climaxes in a great hymn to the Paschal Lamb.
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In this station the Armenians again exercised his courage and exposed his negligence; and the same rebel, who baffled all his operations, was unhorsed, and almost slain by the vigor of his lance.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Brahminee bulls slain in the streets, and cartridges greased with the fat of cows, and Christian converts indemnified, and property not confiscated for loss of caste, -- and a frightful falling off in the benighting business generally; and the fierce Rajpoot grinds his white teeth, while Asirvadam the Brahmin plots, and plots, and plots.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
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Pictures of slain, undersized whales, and the dramatic interposition of tiny Zodiacs between giant whaling ships and their quarry created a media storm when released during an International Whaling Commission meeting.
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After them came the sons of Aeacus, not both together, nor from the same spot; for they settled far from Aegina in exile, when in their folly they had slain their brother Phocus.
The Argonautica
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It happened that just at that time, the annual period for the celebration of the festival of Adonis, according to the old fashion, came round; the story being, as the poets relate, that Adonis had been loved by Venus, and slain by a boar's tusk, which is an emblem of the fruits of the earth being cut down in their prime.
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
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[Illustration: LANCELOT COMES OUT OF GUENEVERE'S ROOM] 'Nay, Lancelot,' said the Queen, 'I will never live after your days, but if you are slain I will take my death as meekly as ever did any
The Book of Romance
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Kaderin said, “My sisters are managing well—aside from the occasional slain toaster—and they were premedieval.”
Deep Kiss Of Winter
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Of the enemy ten thousand were slain: on our part three hundred and sixty fell; among whom was Aulus Atticus, the praefect of a cohort, who, by his juvenile ardor, and the fire of his horse, was borne into the midst of the enemy.
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
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Turcoplier of England, chiefe captaine of the succours of the sayd posterne of England, a valiant man and hardy: and in holding of it he was slaine with the stroke of a hand-gunne, which was great damage.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The Greek fire-dragon the Chimaera was slain at her lair but – being immortal – her blazing breath lived on.
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slain warriors
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The distraught mother of the slain young man said disconsolately at his funeral, ‘I don't know who to blame for my son's death.
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In the spirit of this magical colour, and St. Paddy's Day heading our way, let's tuck into this delicious fare, and wish each other a hearty slainte and B'eannachtam na Femle Padraig -
Ottawa Sun
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Truckloads of deer and bear have been slain by nimrods using rifles topped off with over or under scope mounts and will continue to be until Grandpa's prize bull starts producing milk.
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The mind rebels at the attempt: one child randomly slain on the threshold of adulthood, the other burdened for life with the guilt of Cain.
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“By Heaven, it cannot!” said the knight, “unless the juvenal hath slain himself and buried himself, in order to place me in the predicament of his murderer.”
The Monastery
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But here again the season will have been before you with the glory of those corridas which you have still hoped not to witness but to turn from as an example to the natives before the first horse is disemboweled or the first bull slain, or even the first banderillero tossed over the barrier.
Familiar Spanish Travels
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On learning that the slain statesman never had a grave, he unearthed a bit of Congolese lore which said that the spirits of people who were not properly buried continued to roam freely.
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Others, however, enounce a contrary opinion and say that it is preferable to respite captives because the option of killing or not killing remains; but if they be slain without delay, it is possible that some advantage may be lost, the like of which cannot be again obtained.
The Gulistan of Sa'di
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Thisby happens on slain Pyramus, slays herself, etc.
Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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She's always noticed. But then, to be honest, Ghislaine likes being noticed.
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Police believe Hansen was slain and his body dumped into a trash container.
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Though I have slain many on this day, it is for your life that I will claim bloodguilt.
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The folk replied, O King, we have found ten men slain on the sea-shore, and the royal yacht is missing.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And if they are, I want to say in my best Arkansas accent, cead mile failte -- (applause) -- beatha saol agus slainte.
President Address To Citizens Of Dublin
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The 773-page compilation resurrects St. George, the dragon-slayer who was slain himself at Lydda in Palestine around 303 A.D. and is the patron of soldiers, knights, archers and armorers.
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The mariage of the daughter of Harald, slaine by William the conquerour, vnto Ieruslaus duke of Russia, taken out of the 9. booke of the Danish historie written by Saxo Grammaticus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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So, in John 2:19-22, we appear to have this interpretation of Amos 9:11: 1. The “I” is Jesus as the pre-existent Logos 2. The skene tent/tabernacle is the body of Jesus 3. It is fallen in the sense that it has been slain by the Jews 4. It will be rebuilt in the sense that it will be restored to life—being, thereby, raised up from the dead—by Jesus as the Logos.
Did Jesus Predict His Death? The Witness of Mark and John
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Then she asked him, “O Moslem! the slaying of Nazarenes is lawful to you folk; what then hast thou to say about being slain thyself?”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
