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 | David Henry Montgomery - Ballads, English - 1896 - 344 pages
...joyful cry To see the red blood flow. XLIV. 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... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1897 - 330 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 handbreadth... | |
 | James Baldwin - Readers - 1897 - 252 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 handbreadth... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - Children's poetry - 1897 - 254 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 handbreadth... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 522 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 handbreadth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1898 - 816 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 438 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 handbreadth... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 446 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 handbreadth... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 568 pages
...joyful cry To see the red blood flow. XLV. He reeled, and on Herminiua 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 handbreadth... | |
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