[Vitellius witnessed gladiatorial combats at Lugdunum and again at Cremona, as if the crowds of men who had perished in the battles and were even then exposed unburied to the elements did not suffice.

It is cowardly to force your antagonist to renew the combat, when you know that you have the advantage of him by superior skill.

As you may have seen two dogs that think to fight, walking slowly round and round each other, neither cur wishing to begin the combat, so those two stout yeomen moved slowly around, each watching for a chance to take the other unaware, and so get in the first blow.

In vain he demanded single combat with Fulk, or the ordeal by fire; Fulk, who had been bribed with an ox, insisted on the ordeal of water, so that he should by no means escape.

He was now within reach of Richmond himself, who declined not the combat, when Sir William Stanley, breaking in with his troops, surrounded Richard, who, fighting bravely to the last moment, was overwhelmed by numbers, and perished by a fate too mild and honorable for his multiplied and detestable enormities.

If it were the same with the body as with the mind, I should badly sustain this stomach combat of which you speak.

The rebels, too, are re-enforced, but the dispositions made by the Union chiefs bring the combat to equal terms.

"The Indian crept cautiously forward, and concealed himself behind a great stone, from whence he could watch the approaching combat.

on the sale of slaves, and he ordered that the money delivered from the public treasury to the prætors who gave armed combats should no longer be expended.

I have seen some fierce combats out there in the blue water.

But if the challenge had been public, the proofs I had formerly given of courage would not have excused my present moderation; and, though desirous to have avoided the combat, it would not have been in my power.

Dans l'Amérique Méridionale quelque Peuples décharnent les corps de leurs Guerriers et les mangent leurs chairs, ainsi que je viens de le dire, et après les avoir consumées, ils conservent pendant quelque temps leurs cadavres avec respect dans leurs Cabanes, et il portent ces squeletes dans les combats en guise d'Etendard, pour ranimer leur courage par cette vue et inspirer de la terreur à leurs ennemis.

To return their compliment I occasionally wheeled myself in the saddle and fired back at them, and one of my shots broke the leg of one of their horses, which left its rider hors(e) de combat, as the French would say.

And I make my oath that I never beheld so fierce and manful a combat in all of my life.

He did not particularly enjoy gladiatorial combats of men, although Titus during the youthful sports which were celebrated in his own land had once had a sham fight in heavy armor with Alienus.

" Rustem replied, "And in the hopes of a crown and throne thou wouldst sacrifice thyself!""Thou shalt see!" said Isfendiyár, and seized his bow to commence the combat.

The English were repulsed with great slaughter, and driven back to the hill; where, being rallied by the bravery of Harold, they were able, notwithstanding their loss, to maintain their post, and continue the combat.

If I had the pen of a Napier, or a Bell's Life, I should like to describe this combat properly.

The easily won combat at Bull Run had filled the authoritiesas well as the rank and filewith overweening contempt for the resources of the North, or the enterprise of its soldiers.

That are without there: if he should desire The combat of you, 'tis not in the power Of all our Laws to hinder it, unless we mean to quit 'em.

For this especial carnage was of supreme and world-wide significance so long ago that it is now not worth the pains involved to rephrase for inattentive hearing the combat of the knights at Perdigonout of which came alive only Guivric and Coth and Anavalt and Gonfal,or to speak of the once famous battle of the tinkers, or to retell how the inflexible syndics of Montors were imprisoned in a cage and slain by mistake.

Rustem having successfully concealed the anguish of his wound, artfully observed that it would be better to finish the combat on the following day, to which Barzú readily agreed, and then they both parted.

The three took cover in the bushes, and a long and trying combat of sharpshooters took place.

They had no resource but to prolong the combat or to surrender.

The bow, however, was soon laid aside, and the sword decided the combat, which ended in a total victory on the side of the Yorkists.