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Updated: May 18, 2025
But since his master met you, he has been tottering about as though he had received a spear-thrust, and as the knight confessed to his faithful servitor that no leech could help him until you permitted him to open his heart to you and show you with what humble devotion "
It would have surprised the good people of Ruritania to know of the foregoing talk; for, according to the official reports, I had suffered a grievous and dangerous hurt from an accidental spear-thrust, received in the course of my sport.
He hovered for a little space so high that even the eagle could scarcely have followed him, then darted straight downwards, and Gradasso felt a spear-thrust in his side. The knight struck sharply back, but his sword cleft the empty air, for the horse was already far out of reach. Roger ran to staunch the blood and bind up the wound, never thinking of what might befall himself.
There stark lay the body of gay Dubois-Desaulle, dropped from his mule without a struggle by a mortal spear-thrust in his back, the manner of his mutilation a Danakil's sign manual! Immediately messengers were sent to the caravan bearing the news and asking reinforcements.
That piece of the sword the queen his sister kept ever with her, for she thought to be revenged, if she might. Now turn we again unto Sir Tristram, that was sore wounded by a spear-thrust of Sir Marhaus so that he might scarcely stir. He sat down softly upon a little hill, and bled fast.
The Holy Women come in and group themselves in picturesque despair at the foot of the cross. The awful drama goes on with no detail omitted, the thirst the sponge dipped in vinegar, the cry of desolation, the spear-thrust, the giving up of the ghost. The stage-lights are lowered. A thick darkness of crape comes down over the sky.
We can scarcely fail to remember the words which echo these and interpret them: 'The armies which were in heaven followed Him on white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean' a strange armour against sword-cut and spear-thrust.
So he dies as he had lived, joyous and unafraid, the curse, while having its way with him to the extent of securing his destruction, crippled as ever before, when the death by which it would punish is embraced like a bride. For a long moment all stand motionless and heavily silent. It really seems impossible that a spear-thrust could extinguish that glowing, that superabundant, that splendid life.
Even though he knew the inevitable ends poisoned spear-thrust, a wound with one of those terribly envenomed arrows he felt no fear. Revenge! If he could only feel its sweetness, death had no terrors. Common sense instantly sobered him and dispelled these vain ideas. The bungalow, after all, was not vital to his future or the girl's.
During the heat of the battle the brave little man's foot had slipped, and the desperately wounded monster, making a rush at the moment, overturned him into a crevice between two ice-blocks, fortunately the impetus of the rush caused the animal to shoot into another crevice beyond, and the man, proving more active than the bear, sprang out of his hole in time to meet his foe with a spear-thrust so deadly that it killed him on the spot.
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