18 Verbs to Use for the Word slaying

It would scarcely be a paradox to say that the popular Zeus, or Ares, is degenerate from Mungan-ngaur, or the Fuegian being who forbids the slaying of an enemy, and almost literally 'marks the sparrow's fall.'

He had seen eyes glaring in the darkness, and had heard a terrible voice say, 'Darest thou slay Caius Marius?'

How savages, armed only with flint implements, could have captured these gigantic animals, is somewhat mysterious; but, as M. Lartet suggests, they may have snared many of them, or have overwhelmed single monsters with innumerable arrows and spears, as Livingstone describes the slaying of the elephant by the negroes at the present day.

For it was thou who didst slay my brother Sir Caradus at Dolorous Gard, who was held to be the best knight in all the world.

The woods that are golden and red for a day Girdle the hills in a jewelled case, Like a girl's strange mirth, ere the quick death slay

Methinks I have foregone The slaying of Helen here in Ilion....

And I would that Jahveh had created me an eagle or a vulture or some other hateful bird of prey that furthers a less grievous slaying and a more intelligible wasting than I further.

It gives vivid pictures of certain phases of life among the Anglo-Saxons: "One shall sharp hunger slay; One shall the storms beat down; One be destroyed by darts, One die in war.

Yet even whylst her bloody hands them slay, Her eyes looke lovely, and upon them smyle, That they take pleasure in their cruell play, And, dying, doe themselves of payne beguyle.

The present instance of it has to do with himself, not his father, but in itself would justify the slaying of his uncle, whose plausible way had possibly perplexed him so that he could not thoroughly believe him the villain he was: bad as he must be, could he actually have killed his own brother, and such a brother?

Since then much have I learned of thee and thy valiant doings, more especially of Barham Broomhow thou didst slay the vile Sir Gilles 'neath the eyes of Ivo and all his powers and thereby didst snatch from shame and cruel death one that is become the very heart of me, so needs must I love and honour and cherish thee so long as I be Jocelyn and thou thy noble self.

As they go, they recall Krishna's many winning ways, his sweetnesses of character, his heart-provoking charms and begin to mimic his actsthe slaying of Putana, the quelling of Kaliya, the lifting of the hill Govardhana.

The Being also prohibits the slaying of flappers before they can fly.

His morality is so much above the ordinary savage standard that he regards the slaying of a stranger and an enemy, caught redhanded in robbery, as a sin.

'Tis slay or die, win or return no more.

I've watched her slay John that was my comrade, you'll mind for his armlet.

And, surely, it did come to me with a fierce impatience of sorrow, that those people did be without spirit of courage; else had they turned them upon the giants, and slain them with their hands, even if that all had died to compass that slaying; for, truly, they should all die anywise by the giant-men; and they had died then with somewhat to comfort their hate.

Abimelech said: Lord, wilt thou slay a man ignorant and rightful?

18 Verbs to Use for the Word  slaying