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...pro- jecting from the front. On one side of the saddle hung a short battle-axe, richly inlaid with Damascene carving; on the other the rider’s plumed ... ...ight, “the fault shall not be mine. On foot or horseback, with spear, with axe, or with sword, I am alike ready to encounter thee.” More and angrier w... ... if an opportunity should occur, to make him feel the weight of his battle-axe. De Bracy, and other knights attached to Prince John, in 112 Ivanhoe o... ...nfined to striking. A knight, it was announced, might use a mace or battle-axe at pleasure, but the dagger was a prohibited weapon. A knight unhorsed ... ... with dust and blood, and gave way at every stroke of the sword and battle-axe. The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like s... ...th Front-de-Boeuf, he wrenched from the hand of the bulky Saxon the battle-axe which he wielded, and, like one familiar with the use of the weapon, be... ...his brave game is like to go— If I had but bow to shoot a shaft, or battle-axe to strike were it but a single blow for our deliverance!—It is in vain—... ...twenty men’s strength in his single arm—His sword is broken—he snatches an axe from a yeoman—he presses Front-de-Boeuf with blow on blow—The giant sto... ...ves right yeo- manly—the Black Knight approaches the postern with his huge axe—the thundering blows which he deals, you may hear them above all the di...

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...orgive you being sick,” he said at last, as a portion of the wall fell out, “but I cannot bear your being such a fool.” And with that he heaved up his... ...FAITH AT ALL. IN THE ANCIENT DAYS there went three men upon pilgrimage; one was a priest, and one was a virtuous person, and the third was an old rove... ...te to make it up with the devil?” said the virtuous person. “Oh, I hope not,” said the priest. “And at any rate we can but try. But what are you doing...

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...od with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lightet... ...inst it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them ... ... Zal- mon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid... ... the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. 21 Yet they had a le for the mattocks, and for the c... ... ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. 8 Th... ...y came to Jordan, they cut down wood. 5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it ... ...was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnif... ...h a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails an... ...d of his inheritance: the LORD of hosts is his name. 20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the na- tions,...

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...e.’ Then he took off his two leather boots and he took up his little stone axe (that makes three) and he fetched a piece of wood and a hatchet (that i... ...s and always; but I am now going to throw my two boots and my little stone axe (that makes three) at you whenever I meet you. And so shall all proper ... ...Dogs do af- ter me.’ Then the Man threw his two boots and his little stone axe (that makes three) at the Cat, and the Cat ran out of the Cave and the ...

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... says she. “Y ou stand in some dan- ger of the gallows for pirates.” ‘“The axe, most gracious lady,” says the elder, “for we are gentle born.” He spok... ...t did you want to bury her for this way?’ said Cattiwow. He took his broad-axe and went up the log tap- ping it. ‘She’s sticked fast,’ said ‘Bunny’ Le... ... He was dressed in flour sacks like the others, and he leaned on his broad-axe, but the children, who knew all the wood-gangs, knew he was a stranger.... ...ry gravel. The butt ground round like a buffalo in his wallow. Quick as an axe-cut, Lewknor snapped on his five horses, and sliding, trampling, jingli... ... me alone, you double hand- ful o’ mischief.’ He pretended to heave up his axe on Puck; and then his shyness overtook him afresh. ‘Where did you know ...

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... Where conscience shows the eyeing of an ox Grown dully apprehensive of an Axe. Graceless they are when gone to frivolousness, Fearing the God they fl... ... fair belief That these are devilish only to their thief, Charged with an Axe nigh on the occiput. 182 THE GARDEN OF EPICURUS That Garden of sedate ... ...ng her the Ever-new, And themselves the kin o’ the rose. Life, the chisel, axe and sword, Wield who have her depths explored: Life, the dream, shall b... ...ll Marvelled at the sacrifice, But the battle, swinging dim, Rang off that axe-blow for him. Attila, my Attila! XIV Brightening over Danube wheeled St... ... sweeter than her flowers. WOODMAN AND ECHO Close Echo hears the woodman’s axe, T o double on it, as in glee, With clap of hands, and little lacks Of ... ...hifting blocks; They clash, they are knotted, and now ’tis the deed of the axe on the log; Here away moves a spiky woodland, and yon away sweep Rivers... ...braid, And friends give echo blunt and cold, The echo of the forest to the axe. Within her are the fires that wax For resurrection from the mould. X S... ...prolonged, As though the leagues of woodland held them wronged T o hear an axe and see a township climb. XXIV The forest’s erewhile emperor at eve Had... ...14 Cistercians might crack their sides 272 Close Echo hears the woodman’s axe, 341 Come to me in any shape! 75 D Day of the cloud in fleets! O day...

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...m The thicket seemed to grow. I take the lesson, wipe my brow And throw my axe aside, And, sorely wearied, I go home In the tranquil eventide. And soo...

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...a man up to the altar, pretended to hit him on the head with a little gilt axe, and the man fell down and pretended to die. Then everybody shouted: “A...

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...n leathern guise, His brow, like a pent-house, hung over his eyes. He’d an axe in his hand, not a word he spoke, But with many a hem! and a sturdy ...

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...—they called him Ho-Igoo—and he knew something of the wicked little Gondee axe that whirls across a clearing like a dragon-fly. “It was a pointed stic... ...w-skin pouch on his neck under his chin—a hold-all for the things his pick-axe beak might steal. His legs were long and thin and skinny, but he moved ... ...er, my Fate sent me the boatman who had desired to cut off my tail with an axe. His boat grounded upon an old shoal which you would not remember.” “We... ... where they stood admiring the length of the Mugger. Then a native with an axe cut off the big head, and four men dragged it across the spit. “The las...

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...ns the little one to search for the same, and beholds withal where two men axe sitting, big and grimly to look on, with overhanging helms and bright w... ...ught.” And therewith they cast him down to earth, and smote him with their axe-hammers till he died. CHAPTER XXXVII The Battle in the Burg of King Atl...

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...g and birth, a tenant farmer by misfortune of marriage, had laid his broad axe at her feet a month before.) “Sorry if I’ve committed you to another et... ...e local proverb from three poles down the line. “We ain’t goin’ to lay any axe- iron to coffin-wood here not till we know where we are yet awhile. Swi...

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...Burst from a great door matred by many a blow From mace and sword and pole axe, long ago When gods and giants warred. We rode between The seaweed cove... ...387 Barking. We trampled up and down with blows Of sword and brazen battle axe, while day Gave to high noon and noon to night gave way; And when he kn... ...ng bodies poured out and heaped in the way. And by them were arrow and war axe, arrow and shield and blade; And dew blanched horns, in whose hollow a ... ...e a church with its belfry in air; Sorry place, where for swing of the war axe in my dim eyes the crozier gleams; What place have Caoilte and Conan, a...

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...sness that everything had gone blurred all perception of whether or no the axe had fallen. Oh the “advantage,” it was perfectly enough, in truth, with...