579 collocations for slaying

"Stay!" cried he, above the thunder of blows that shook the door, "would'st slay a man unarmed?" "Aye, master, as he hath slain many a man ere now!"

"They will slay thee out of handa wild rabblement, lawless and disordered!"

Then spake the Duke on this wise: 'Sir Benedict, Duke Beltane is no more, the stroke that slew my brother Johan killed Duke Beltane also.

It was not that I had slain my enemy and been delivered from deadly peril, nor had I any clearer light on my next step.

He indeed hath not injured me; but his father slew my father, wherefore it is meet that I should slay that ancestor's son's son.

A battle was fought at St. Albans, in which the Yorkists were superior, and, without suffering any material loss, slew about five thousand of their enemies, among whom were the Duke of Somerset, the Earl of Northumberland, the Earl of Stafford, eldest son of the Duke of Buckingham, Lord Clifford, and many other persons of distinction.

"They would not follow him who should slay his father and his prince!" was the reply.

Having thrice wounded "The Brandisher of Spears," and slain a great number of his champions, he carried off their goods and brought back from their country even a richer spoil than Djaida had demanded.

This, however, did not prevent him in 685 from ravaging Sussex, slaying the South Saxon king and at last succeeding his old enemy Centwine upon the West Saxon throne.

"If you had stayed your bayonetif you had spared that boy, as you would have done had you seen or heard him in timewhat would that have been?" "Pity, maybe, or scorn to slay a weaker foe.

Ne doubt ye no thing, without more, believe ye in God, Jesu Christ, and do ye to be baptized and I shall slay the dragon.

As foes arose, these athletes of the tribe or clan would be the first to rush forth to slay the wild beast, to brave the sea and storm, or to wreak vengeance on assailing tribes.

Perseus slew the monster.)

No! Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love their country, but rather that I should honour them, and seek to unite myself with them for our common good....

Woe to them that have slain the husband, and cast forth the child, the tender infant, to wander homeless, and hungry, and cold, till he die; and have saved the mother alive, in the cruelty of their tender mercies!

We sympathize with nations that overthrow the thrones, and in our secret hearts we almost canonize individuals who slay the tyrants.

I ofttimes think bitterly, even yet, of that first life I took, but of this I am as glad as though I had slain a wild boar that laid waste a fair country.

"Son of Zoheir," he cried to Cais, "it is a base action to slay a child; but it is good to meet in battle, to decide with these lances which shall predominate, you or me."

Over and over again I saw this monster slay its three victims; and always, when that was done, it raised its head and glared at me, as though selecting me for the fourth....

He who had slain the lion and the bear became the champion of his native land.

The candid disposition of Henrich rendered him liable to be deceived by these false professions of his former rival; and he readily believed that Coubitant had, during his absence of so many years, forgotten and laid aside all those feelings of envy and jealousy that once appeared to fill his breast, and to actuate him to deeds of enmity towards the white stranger, whose father had slain his chosen friend and companion.

Is not he the one who killed Clodius by the hand of Milo, and slew Caesar by the hand of Brutus?

We are told that he sought to slay the Gibeonites "in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah."

He shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground....

They will come out somewhere at last; they know not where nor when: but they will come out at last, into the daylight and the open field; and be told thenperhaps to their own astonishmentas many a gallant soldier has been told, that by simply walking straight on, and doing the duty which lay nearest them, they have helped to win a great battle, and slay great giants, earning the thanks of their country and of mankind.

579 collocations for  slaying