Rome not only stood fiercely at bay, but had pressed back and gored her antagonist, that still, however, watched her in act to spring.

Low the dauntless earl is laid, Gored with many a gaping wound: Fate demands a nobler head; Soon a king shall bite the ground.

And remember the story of the little boy that was gored to death by a mad bull for asking questions!"

'Well,' said he, 'we had good talk.' BOSWELL: 'Yes, sir, you tossed and gored several persons.'

All gored and prostrate in his blood, He lies upon the ground, While the unsated red one toward The deacon made a bound.

Now we imagine that Mr. Darwin need not be dangerously gored by either horn of this curious dilemma.

But with the lambs he sheared, and the bulls he dragged to earth, and the bears he gored to financial death, we have nothing to do; suffice it, that he performed these operations with almost uniform success and in an unimpeachably respectable manner.

In many instances the buffaloes, infuriated by wounds, turned fiercely on their assailants and gored the horses to death, in which cases the men had to trust to their nimble legs for safety.

The shoes with poulaines were superseded by a kind of large padded shoe of black leather, round or square at the toes, and gored over the foot with coloured material, a fashion imported from Italy, and which was as much exaggerated in France as the poulaine had formerly been.

THE LATE MISS C. MEYER, MISS PINCKNEY AND MISS E.W. THOMPSON (MRS. LARCOMBE)] I advise a plain gored skirtnot pleated; I think these most unsuitable on courtabout four or five inches from the ground.

Garrick, however, did not like it, and when Boswell tried to console him by saying that Johnson gored everybody in turn, and added, "foenum habet in cornu."

Shall see his bloody spoils in triumph borne, With this keen javelin shall his breast be gored, And prostrate heroes bleed around their lord.

Some days afterwards, this bull gored its master.

All at once the nimble steed became so crowded on every side that his only escape from being gored to death was by a tremendous bound which he made over the back of a terrified steer who lowered his head for the purpose of driving his horns into his body.

The riders run considerable risk, for their lances are inadequate to killing the bull, which after being gored and mangled, is finally despatched by a matador.

I have proved that too: should I turn loose On these poor sheep the wolf whose fangs have gored me, God's bolt would smite me dead.

Perhaps, like Marsh or Van Mildert, he was a controversial pamphleteer who had tossed a Calvinist or gored an Evangelical.

39; 'tossed and gored,' ii. 66; tossed Boswell, iii. 338; town, the, his element, iv.

'You tossed and gored several persons' (Boswell), ii. 66; iii.

Then the elephant also rushed forward but the bullock stood its ground and stamped; at this the elephant turned tail and ran away; the bullock ran after it and gored it from behind until it trumpeted with pain.

Then the wild buffaloes came running at the sound and gored to death every one they met, and Lakhan and his wife became Raja and Rani.

The torrero's mortal disaster in the arena is no more important than the action behind the scenes where the gored horses have their dangling entrails sewed up by the primitive surgery of the place and are then ridden back into the amphitheatre to suffer a second agony.

The day's ironing was over now, and refreshed with a bath and a half-hour's sleep after it, she sat under the shadow of the tall trees, arrayed in her white marseilles, which, being gored, made her look, as unsophisticated Andy thought, most too slim and flat.

Malcolm's warning shout came just in time to save her from being gored by the angry animal, who charged at her with lowered horns.

One of our men had been shot in the shoulder, another gored in the hip with a bayonet, and we left a young Briton dead on the shore.