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Fiends that ye are, to slay us! Help me, brothers! Before we die, let us have our revenge!" On this, the other gypsies, themselves maddened by approaching death, began hurling manikins, by handfuls, into the fire. The little creatures, being wooden of body, quickly caught the flames, and an awful struggle for life took place in miniature in the grate.
Black Will had notched an arrow and was raising his bow when Aylward's second shaft passed through the shoulder of his drawing arm. With a shout of anger and pain he dropped his weapon, and dancing in his fury he shook his fist and roared curses at his rival. "I could slay him; but I will not, for good bowmen are not so common," said Aylward.
Me thou wilt never slay, for I am not subject unto death." Then mightily moved spake unto him Achilles fleet of foot: "Thou hast baulked me, Far-darter, most mischievous of all the gods, in that thou hast turned me hither from the wall: else should full many yet have bitten the dust or ever within Ilios had they come.
He never said a word until he was being driven back, and then an oath broke from him. 'Tis an ill thing to swear with a sword in one's hand. That oath gave me strength and cooled me to ice. "Come!" I said, "you would not slay your heir; or are you going to make room for me, Simon?" And my sword point ripped his doublet.
I will burn thee with fire that shall ne'er be quenched, * Or will slay thee with scymitar's sharpest bite! Take my warning and fly from the road of love; * Draw thee back from a course nor seemly nor right!" Then she folded the scroll and gave it to the old woman, who was puzzled and perplexed by the matter.
The letter, which he had touched as if it contained nitro-glycerine, might slay every hope. Indeed he believed that it would, for he understood Mildred better than she understood herself. She believed that Arnold had given her up. Her heart had become benumbed with its own pain, and was sleeping after its long, weary waiting.
"Kali Pandapatan," finally announced the boy, "it is given that we act as brave men. If it is Bal-Bal who has been swooping upon us, have no fear; he can come no more with Piang, the charm boy, prepared to meet him. If it is something else that is hovering near, we must go boldly forth and slay our enemy." A relieved sigh from the listeners greeted this speech.
So the Philistine being retarded by the weight of his armor, when he attempted to meet David in haste, came on but slowly, as despising him, and depending upon it that he should slay him, who was both unarmed and a child also, without any trouble at all. But the youth met his antagonist, being accompanied with an invisible assistant, who was no other than God himself.
Thus Zipporah saved Moses' life twice, first from the pit and then from the serpent. When Moses arrived in Egypt, he was approached by Dathan and Abiram, the leaders of the Israelites, and they spake: "Comest thou hither to slay us, or dost thou purpose to do the same with us as thou didst with the Egyptian?"
Unto her the divine Brahman acquainted with the past, the present and the future, said, "Thou shalt commit no sin, O Death, by slaying these creatures. My words can never be futile, O amiable one! Therefore, O auspicious damsel, slay these creatures of four kinds. Eternal virtue shall always be thine. That Regent of the world, viz., Yama, and the diverse disease shall become thy helpmates.
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