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They introduce the raven, for whom the Saxon felt it his duty to provide food on the battlefield: "...hraefen wandrode sweart and sealo-br=un; swurd-l=eoma st=od swylce eal Finns-buruh f=yrenu w=aere." ...the raven wandered Swart and sallow-brown; the sword-flash stood As if all Finnsburg were afire. The love of war is almost as marked in the Christian poetry.
All this went through her mind with the cruel swiftness of a sword-flash. And the first reaction to it, involuntary and reflex, was to crush it instantly down, lest the man walking at her side should be aware of it. It had come to her with such loud precision that it seemed it must have been audible.
The missionary's face grew stern, and his ice-green eyes gave forth a sword-flash. "Well, go your way; God grant it lead not to perdition!" He nodded his head in the direction of the two palm-trees which marked in the dusk the whereabouts of Mîtri's house. Iskender, glancing in the same direction, discerned the tall black figure of the father of Nesîbeh in the road, looking out for him.
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