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 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English poetry - 1843 - 142 pages
...joyful cry To see the red blood flow. 45. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet, So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a hand-breadth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...joyful cry To see the red blood flow. 45. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet, So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a hand-breadth... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 pages
...himself in the first onset with the giant. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a hand-breadth... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...a joyful cry To see the red blood flow, He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing space ; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a hand-breadth... | |
 | 418 pages
...brick from either of those great houses : " He reel'd, and on Herminius He lean'd one breathing space ; Then like a wild cat mad with wounds Sprang right at Astur's face : Through teeth, and skull, and helmet So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a handbreadth... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 738 pages
...joyful cry To see the red blood flow. XLV. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a hand-breadth... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a hand-breadth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Rome - 1868 - 288 pages
...a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet, So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a hand-breadth... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reeled, and on Herminius He leaned one breathing-space ; Then, like a wild cat mad with wounds, Sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet So fierce a thrust he sped, The good sword stood a hand-breadth... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Oratory - 1870 - 420 pages
...a joyful cry To see the red blood flow. He reeled, and on Herminius he leaned one breathing space, Then like a wild cat mad with wounds, sprang right at Astur's face. Through teeth, and skull, and helmet, so fierce a thrust he The good sword stood a hand-breadth out... | |
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