The Albert and Victoria also had fallen in line, though badly battered by the effects of the German shells during the night.

I have found many pairs of the horns of the old rams considerably battered, doubtless a result of fighting.

But the rear-guard was saved, and, with a hedge of bristling pikes behind, Sir Benedict's sore-battered company marched on along the forest-road and breathed again, the while their pursuers, staggered in their onset, paused to re-form ere they thundered down upon that devoted rear-guard once more.

Solid silver pitchers and goblets and trays, sadly battered by being flung against the rocks, lay just as they had fallen until Bob and Betty had uncovered the leaves which, had so long covered them.

I reached the house, and suddenly three great burly fellows sprang up, and battered furiously at the door.

Once, however, did the waves eat through the Portland stone in this place, it was easy work to gradually batter down and wash out, through the narrow opening, a circular bay from the soft strata of Hastings sands lying in the protection of the Portland stone.

Its parvis is grass-grown; the hotels on the parvis are heavily battered, and if they are not destroyed it is because the Cathedral sheltered them; the Archbishop's palace lies in fragments; all around is complete ruin.

The great heavy metal doors were incessantly battered from without, but no one dared to open them, and Lorenzo remained where he was until the hubbub in the Duomo appeared to be abating.

and which some interpret, diverse enticements, or diverse affections of lovers, which if not alone, yet jointly may batter and overcome the strongest constitutions.

I was battering madly at the drawers, when the butler, backed by two women-servants, intruded upon me.

"No," repeated Spinrobin, yet aware that he felt mentally battered at the prospect, "I shall not shrink.

Cnut was there, his bascinet gone, his fiery hair betousled: Tall Orson was there, leaning on a bent and battered pike, and there his comrade, Jenkyn o' the Ford, with many others that Beltane well remembered and others whose faces he knew not.

Some there are who craftily open the door with a skeleton key; some who ruthlessly batter the panels; some who achieve only a wax impression, which proves to be useless.

That battered simile again; this is hard.

The guns were much heavier than those upon the walls, and the shot, directed at a curtain between two towers, battered the stone sorely.

She complains that her sides are tolerably battered in;we hold our tongues, and think that the board, too, has had a hard time of it.

By that time the enemy's retreat had finished and the German army under General von Kluck was at last on the other side of the Aisne, in the strongholds of the hills at which the French and British guns were vainly battering at the beginning of a long and dreary siege against entrenched positions.

It was an inshoot, and the batter afterward declared it grazed his knuckles as it passed.

There was a Belgian soldier in uniform, woefully battered and beaten; and for the first time I saw a German soldier without his rifle.

Landor, always devoted to pictures, but without much judgment, now added to his collection; Browning in one of his letters to Forster tells how he has found him "particularly delighted by the acquisition of three execrable daubs by Domenichino and Gaspar Poussin most benevolently battered by time".

And he kept up the defence of his fortress, continually battered by the besiegers' cannonballs.

" Berkley's face looked dreadfully battered and white, but he was master of himself, careful of his equilibrium, and very polite to everybody.

In this work the Roman Catholic lord had it all his own way; the Irish Protestant was accommodatingly weak in all his arguments, and the noble Papist battered him famously.