But now they came battering down, under the earright, left, as the man turned blindly to avoid themon the jaw, even on the suffering eyes, and that at last stung the sleeper into something like consciousness.

Thus, would I attack a city, I do it modo et forma: first, I set up my mantelets for my archers, and under cover of their swift shooting I set me up my mangonels, my trebuchets and balistae: then, pushing me up, assault the walls with cat, battering-ram and sap, and having made me a breach, would forthwith take me the place by sudden storm.

"That door won't stand much battering," said von Ludwig.

" He was right; for a few moments later the battering at the door of the companionway ceased and the engines ceased work.

" "The door will stand considerable battering," said von Ludwig.

On arriving there an attack was made on the walls by battering engines and by the other aggressive methods then practised; but nothing whatever was achieved.

It was smartly done; Watkins had taken no cutlass, but went in with both fists, asking no questions, but battering right and left, his men surging after, with steel blades flaming in the sunlight.

They gave way in terror before him, and we went down battering our way, until the stairs were clear to the deck, except for the dead under foot.

And the fierce torrent, at the flashes broad Starts, like a horse, beside the glaring road She seeks a covert from the battering shower In the roofed bridge

In the roofed bridge, at that terrific hour, She seeks a shelter from the battering show'r.

She seeks a covert from the battering shower In the roofed bridge; the bridge, in that dread hour, Itself all quaking at the torrent's power.

Firearms were then in their infancy; and though battering-pieces had been some time in use, I know not whether any soldiers were armed with hand-guns when the Toxophilus was first published.

It seemed to him that he burst through it like a battering-ram, took the kitchen in two strides, and hurled himself against the sturdy home-made door which led into the living-room.

Morse plunged head down at his enemy, still carrying the log he had used as a battering-ram.

" It was fetched; nerve-racking blows rained on the grille; puffing servants applied it as a lever, as a battering-ram, as a club.

In Monastery Street is the fine gateway of the once rich and powerful St. Augustine's Abbey; and near it, not many years ago, was a fine example of Saxon work, known as Ethelbert's Tower, which some of the intelligent busybodies of the time had removed with a battering-ram.

" He charged me with the chairback as with a battering ram.

It pulled and tore, chased and scattered them, then got them under and threw them with a mighty effort upon the sea, which darkened instantly as man in wrath, and began in its turn to send its foam aloft,a veritable battle of two furies, which, battering each other, produce thunder and lightning flashes.

Then the doctor had grasped the opportunity, that momentary respite the flare afforded, and was out of the brickmaker's sight below battering the door with the butt of his whip....

They were vigorous and therefore had no neck,the most fragile and delicate portion of terrestrial organism,making them more like the bull, the elephant and all the battering animals.

The struggle between the two ferocious warriors disputing oceanic dominion was usually brief and deadly,the mandible battling with the sucker; the solid and cutting equipment of teeth with the phosphorescent mucosity incessantly slipping by and opposing the blow of the demolishing head like a battering ram, with the lashing blow of tentacles thicker and heavier than an elephant's trunk.

Consequently it might be well if the nations within the Empire were strong enough to endure a little battering unaided at the first outsettill such time, that is, as England were permitted to move to their help.

Taking the poker she knocked on the floor, hoping to produce some response from her grandfather, but finding that he did not answer she fell to hammering and battering the lock of her door with such vigour and good-will that at last she succeeded in breaking it.

The iron bars, which my father had engineered so that they sank deep into the wall on either side, still held nobly, and I heard the loud voice crying again for a battering-ram.

Suddenly the bars of the door jangled on the stones under the swinging blows of the battering-ram.