Impaled on the dexter side with those of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor.

And when the warriors met his sullen view, Frowning revenge, still more enraged he grew: Loud to the Envoy thus he fiercely cried: "Since Rustem has my royal power defied, Had I a sword, this instant should his head Roll on the ground; but let him now be led Hence, and impaled alive."

"Say, what has Rustem done, that he should be Impaled upon the ignominious tree? Degrading thought, unworthy to be bred Within a royal heart, a royal head.

They struck on a spike of coral, which pierced the ship's side and held her impaled; fortunately so, for she was thus prevented from backing out to sea and foundering with all hands, as other vessels did.

or I'll chain thee here In my dark vaults, and throw thee for thy food The city's garbage, which has stagnant stood, With impure waters for thy daily drink, And lodge thee in my prison till you sink From life impaled in yonder dismal room Of torture; to thy fate so thou hast come?

[Footnote 12: Literally, "impaled on stakes."

After that they impaled them on sharp skewers run perpendicularly the whole length of the body.

Yet even should the outcome prove contrary to our hope,and I will not shrink from mentioning even this contingency,it is better for us to fall fighting bravely than to be captured and impaled, to see our own entrails cut out, to be spitted on red hot skewers, to perish dissolved in boiling water, when we have fallen into the power of creatures that are very beasts, savage, lawless, godless.

When Mary had first known Margaret and her grandfather, Job Leghan old man who belonged to the class of Manchester workmen who are warm and devoted followers of science, a man whose home was like a wizard's dwelling, filled with impaled insects and books and instrumentsMargaret had a secret fear of blindness.

Seven hundred of the supporters of the young prince were impaled in a row, and that reckless youth was conducted slowly along the line so that he could hear the dying reproaches of the victims of his misguided ambition.

The reef before the Head stretches out a quarter of a mile, looking bold in the dead low-water that then was, and showing to what extent the sea has pushed back this coast, three wrecks impaled on them, and a big steamer quite near, waiting for the first movements of the already strewn sea to perish.

Who can describe the anguish of that mind which feels itself impaled upon the iron of arbitrary powerits living, writhing, helpless victim!

he ordered Clapham (a squire to lord Warwick) and nineteen others, all gentlemen, to be impaled.

Yet so barbarous was the age, that this same learned man impaled forty Lancastrian prisoners at Southampton, put to death the infant children of the Irish chief Desmond, and acquired the nickname of "The Butcher of England."Old and New London, ii. 21.

She is a disgrace to her family, and shall soon see her husband impaled on a stake.

On the side of the court, towards the west watch-tower, was the hall, covered with lead; and over the gate thereof were formerly cut in stone the arms of Brotherton impaled with Bouchier, quartering Louvain, supported with a lion and an eagle.

The Eagle was fairly impaled on a sharp point of the sunken reef and was immovable, but the waves were dashing high over the bows.

War parties, whose members in dreadful derision left women and children impaled by their trail to greet the sight of the pursuing husbands and fathers, found food and lodging at the Moravian towns.

In particular, four Sandusky Indians having taken some prisoners, impaled two of them, a woman and a child, while on their way to the Moravian towns, where they rested and ate, prior to continuing their journey with their remaining captives.

To delight in seeing Men stabbed, poysoned, racked, or impaled, is certainly the Sign of a cruel Temper:

I begin to tremble for the poor Greeks; they will be sacrificed like the Catalans, and left to be impaled for rebellion, as soon as that vainglorious woman the Czarina has glutted her lust of fame, and secured Azoph by a peace, which I hear is all she insists on keeping.

Fate slew him, but he did not drop; She felled he did not fall Impaled him on her fiercest stakes He neutralized them all.

Another bear had been impaled and tossed and trampled.

Mr. Leet, who acted as the Soyer of our campaign, was standing over me with a slice of bacon impaled on a bowie-knife in one hand, and a poker in the otherboth of which insignia of office he was brandishing furiously, with the intention of waking me up more effectually.

Impaled himself to keep them out, not in; Can sow, and dares trust corn where they have been; Can use his horse, goat, wolf, and every beast, And is not ass himself to all the rest!