271 examples of slayer in sentences

On the day that I got into Leavenworth, sometime in July, I was interviewed for the first time in my life by a newspaper reporter, and the next morning I found my name in print as "the youngest Indian slayer on the plains."

But you are always ready for him, my dear victorious Man-slayer.

A booby and a boor, but certainly not the slayer of his sister, unless I had been woefully mistaken in all that had taken place in that club-house previous to my entrance into it on that fatal night.

And a child cried, as if afraid, And hid him in his mother's veil. Then stalked the Slayer from his den, The hand of Pallas served her well!

I have lived but to obtain vengeancevengeance that you, Tisquantum, who were bound to wreak it on the slayer of your son, refused to take.

"But I am decidedly of opinion that Congress may forbid and punish the killing of game on these reserves, no matter that the slayer is lawfully there and is not a trespasser.

Time, now that the deed was accomplishedtime, which had closed for the victim, had become instant and momentous for the slayer.

The Slayer hath taken his hostage; the Lord of the Dead Holdeth me sworn to taste no more delight.

Diomêdes was a son of Arês, the War-god or Slayer, as were the other wild tyrants mentioned just below, Lycâon, the Wolf-hero, and Cycnus, the Swan.

That Iolaos had respect thereto seven-gated Thebes knoweth well, for when he had stricken down the head of Eurystheus beneath the edge of the sword, she buried the slayer beneath the earth in the tomb of Amphitryon the charioteer, where his father's father was laid, a guest of the Spartoi, who had left his home to dwell among the streets of the sons of Kadmos who drave white horses.

He strained his eyes painfully to make out the face of his slayer.

The translations of the names are not given by Chaves, but I think they are correct, except, possibly, the third, which may be a compound of tentetl, lipstone, temictli, dream, instead of with temicti, slayer.]

No one is happy who lives on such terms that he may be put to death not merely with impunity, but even to the great glory of his slayer.

But with him came his wife Gisèle and their little child Demetrios, thus named for the old Count of Arnaye: and it was this boy that, they say, when yet in swaddling-bands, was appointed to be the slayer of his own father, wise Miramon Lluagor.

No words, but, in the place thereof, a clean, straight, hard hit, which took effect with a spank like the explosion of a percussion-cap, knocking the slayer of beeves down a sand-bank,followed, alas!

The wild turkey was always much hunted by the settlers; and one of the common Indian tricks was to imitate the turkey call and shoot the hunter when thus tolled to his foe's ambush; but it was only less common for a skilled Indian fighter to detect the ruse and himself creep up and slay the would-be slayer.

The faint cry, scarcely more than a variation of the wind, registered again though lightly on the drum of his ear, and now he knew that it came from the lungs of man, man the pursuer, man the slayer, and so, in this case, the red man, perhaps Tandakora, the fierce Ojibway chief himself.

His own impulses, under such a spur, and for the moment, were those of the slayer.

Still, if you wish to see another holy man having an only son, and showing the same and even greater fortitude, call to mind the patriarch Abraham, who did not indeed see Isaac die, but, what was much more painful, was himself commanded to slay him, and did not question the command, nor repine at it, nor say, "Is it for this thou hast made me a father, that thou shouldest make me the slayer of my son?

The Mottled Slayer, by George Gilbert (Sunset, August).

"The Mottled Slayer" and "The Elephant Remembers" offer sympathetic studies of struggles in the animal world.

She then proceeded to tell him that her real name was Aslaug, and that she was the daughter of Sigurd Fafnisbane (the slayer of Fafnir) and the beautiful Valkyr Brunhild.

In proof of her assertion, Aslaug then produced a ring and a letter which had belonged to her illustrious mother, and foretold that her next child, a son, would bear the image of a dragon in his right eye, as a sign that he was a grandson of the Dragon Slayer, whose memory was honored by all.

Sigurd slayer of, 269, 274.

Daughter of Iseult I., Tristan teaches, 238; hand of promised to dragon slayer, 238; finds and restores Tristan, 239; tries to kill Tristan, 240; journey of to Cornwall, 241; marries Mark, 242; love of for Tristan, 242; oath of, 243; Tristan cannot forget, 244; carried to Joyeuse Garde, 244; death and burial of, 245. III.

271 examples of  slayer  in sentences