Since then much have I learned of thee and thy valiant doings, more especially of Barham Broomhow thou didst slay the vile Sir Gilles 'neath the eyes of Ivo and all his powers and thereby didst snatch from shame and cruel death one that is become the very heart of me, so needs must I love and honour and cherish thee so long as I be Jocelyn and thou thy noble self.

an thou slay my reverent worship then this night shalt thou die and I with theefor mine art thou and shalt be mine forever.

If in my heart I aught disguise, The lurking evil slay; If aught than Thee more highly prize, O take it, Lord, away!

I would rather by far slay my worst enemy with my own hand than consign him to a death of torture.

And I would that Jahveh had created me an eagle or a vulture or some other hateful bird of prey that furthers a less grievous slaying and a more intelligible wasting than I further.

In its far-reaching consequences it was comparable only to Moses' impulsive slaying of the Egyptian taskmaster.

l. 7. B, C, D, E] two lines, angry, slay.

And there would be something more than plain, swift slaying, now.

Let then thy beauty, to preserve my life, Temper the source of this supreme delight, Lest joy so poignant slay a soul so weak.

It gives vivid pictures of certain phases of life among the Anglo-Saxons: "One shall sharp hunger slay; One shall the storms beat down; One be destroyed by darts, One die in war.

They exposed an infant in the Forum with a tablet on which was written, "I refuse to rear thee, lest thou shouldst slay thy mother."

And there would be something more than plain, swift slaying, now.

And though they will well-nigh depopulate a country themselves, they will wax highly indignant if any of the survivors do a little slaying, even if they kill but a miserable slave, like this Somali dog.

In commemoration of the ceremonial slaying of victims in the vale of Mina at the end of the Greater Pilgrimage, Mahomet ordered two kids to be sacrificed at every festival, so that his people were continually reminded that at Mecca, beneath the infidel yoke, the sacred ritual, so peculiarly their own by virtue of the Abrahamic descent and their inexorable monotheism, was being unworthily performed.