As she sped down yon high high hill, She gaed wi' dole and sorrow, And in the den spied ten slain men, 55 On the dowie banks of Yarrow.
But word has gane doun to Leith, 25 And up to Embro toun, That the lady she has slain the laird, The laird o' Wariestoun.
Downe in yonder greene field, 5 There lies a knight slain under his shield.
My mother got it in a book, The first night I was born, I wou'd be wedded till a knight, And him slain on the morn.
The person slain was the male ancestor of the present Lord Napier.
O I have slain thee, billie Bewick, 135 If this be true thou tellest to me; But I made a vow, ere I came frae hame, That aye the next man I wad be.
For the love I bore thee ance, I'll strive to hide you, if I can:" Then she put him down in a dark cellar 75 Where there lay many a new slain man.
O lang, lang, is the winter nicht, 25 And slawly daws the day; There is a slain knicht in my bouer, And I wish he war away.
Its meekness and submissiveness was only incidental to its main work, that of being slain for his sin and of its blood being sprinkled on the altar to atone for it.
Jesus was the Lamb slainfor our sins from the foundation of the world.
They have sacked Lexington, and slain the people, and burnt the meeting-house.
You haveslain me in fair fight, and my spoils, according to the rules and customs of warfare, belong to the victor.
He had apparently slain unwittingly the only person who could have contested his rights,--the young man who had so strangely brought him the hope of unlimited life at the same time that he was making room for him among his forefathers.
I haveslain a man in fair fight," answered he, "and am about to bury him as he requested.
They had slain the first nobleman in Scotland, treacherously and perfidiously, and “in a place of tremendous sanctity.
Two friends are put to death on suspicion, and a third is slainby his own hand in the excitement of drunkenness.
They cried out in amazement and delight at the monstrous grizzly lying slain upon the ground, and then turned to Xingudan to compliment him upon his achievement.
They were all sitting, and the great body of the slain bull towered above them.
They watched the Indians a long time, and saw them cleaning and cutting up the slain buffaloes.
They might have slain enough to feed a great army, but they did not fire a shot.
The battle continued more than two hours, when the allies fled, leaving upon the field twenty-five Indians and Africans slain in battle; while the loss of the assailants was still larger.
He paused an instant; then continued: "I might have crossed to England at the time, and slain him.
Now love so slain has a trick of resurrecting in the guise of hate; and so, she had thought at first had been the case with her.
She had loved him once--or thought so, a little month ago--and at a single blow he had slainthat love.
As to those who were slain the Hellenes, acting upon impulse, mutilated their bodies, by way of impressing their enemy with as frightful an image as possible.
I would have slain him if I had had my own way," returned Catesby, with a fierce and reproachful look at Fawkes.
I could forgive myself for being duped by him, if I had slain him when he was in my power.
The bodies of the slain and drowned Mamelukes were rifled, and, it being the custom for those warriors to carry their wealth about them, a single corpse often made a soldier's fortune.
The loss in slain and wounded had been about equal on both sides; no cannon, and hardly a prisoner, had been taken.
The old man's son-in-law, General Chateau, had been slainthe same morning.
On that fatal field the French left forty-five cannon and 6000 prisoners, besides the slain and the wounded.
The widows of the slain princes and nobles move Theseus for vengeance and redress, which he instantly undertakes, and forthwith executes.
But the seamen on the part of the Confederates seemed to be dispirited to some extent by the bad beginning they had made, and by the heap of slain near them.
The bodies of the slain had been previously placed at the port gangway, covered with the American flag.
There were also slain two hundred priests who came to pray for the army of the Welsh.
The pagan Mercian king, Penda, was himself slain in the following year by Oswy, the successor to St. Oswald.
Christian priests were again slain at the altar by worshippers of Woden, for the Danes were still heathen.
But Giant Discourager--you must win over him; for he has slain many a poor pilgrim, and waits to slay you.
Pilgrims are warned to be prepared to meet these giants, for they have slain their thousands.
There will be many others slain before that comes about," Long Tom said.
Two spies who crawled up have been slain by the archers.
Our men all fought stoutly, and the archers having cleared the way for us and slain many of their crew, we captured them, and I hold the count and five French knights to ransom.
Australians cut off the right thumb of a slain enemy that his ghost might not be able to draw the bow.
On this account every care is taken to procure the bodies of those slain in battle.
German folk-lore tells how slain warriors rise again to help their comrades to victory, and how a mother will visit her old home to look after her injured and forsaken children, and elsewhere the same idea is extensively believed.
The souls of warriors slain on the field of battle are considered by the Mangaians to wander for a while amongst the rocks and trees of the neighbourhood in which their bodies were thrown.
Soon afterwards Robert heard that at that very hour the king had been slain in the New Forest by the arrow of William Tirell.
Even 'to-day the Chousen peasant fancies he sees the ghostly armies baling out the sea with bottomless dippers, condemned thus to cleanse the ocean of the slain of centuries ago.
A certain island on the Japanese coast is traditionally haunted by the ghosts of Japanese slain in a naval battle.
At length 'the first slain on each battlefield would collect his brothers' ghosts, and lead them to the summit of a mountain, whence they leap into the blue expanse, thus becoming the peculiar clouds of the winter.
Some form of incantation was practised on the occasion, such as the dropping upon the treasure the blood of a slaughtered animal, or burying the slain animal with it.
Priam was slain at the altar, and these altars (aras, 1.
The cruel father, Herod, left five sons; three he commanded to be slain in his last illness, ere he departed.
The lying witnesses, who had falsely accused him, begun first to stone him; because the law of Moses taught, that whosoever accused another to death should throw the first stone against him whom he had before slain with his tongue.
Then he died miserably and suddenly after he had slain the children on account of the birth of Christ; when Archelaus his son succeeded to the kingdom.
But if they are slain guiltless, their innocence will lead them to the fellowship of God's saints; for innocence ever continues secure.
They were slain while little and witless, but they shall arise at the common doom in full growth, and with heavenly wisdom.
The blessed Mary was not slain nor martyred bodily, but spiritually.
They might be slain bodily, but they could not by any torments be turned from God.
A soldier, that "in the trade of war has oft slain men," feels probably no uneasiness at reflecting upon the supposed catastrophe which almost turned me into stone.
Their fall discouraged the rest, who began to turn round their horses; and a few shots fired at them soon sent them off, bearing along with them their slain or wounded companions.
Abel was notslain on any political or domestic account, but alone on account of the worship of God.
And I believe that Adam knew by the revelation of the Holy Spirit, that Abel had been slain by his brother; for he spoke at once concerning the murder, "What hast thou done?
Whereas if he had said to his father, "Alas, my father, I have slain Abel, my brother.
They see one of their sons slain by the other; and now they see the slayer excommunicated by the judgment of God and cut off forever from the society of the rest of his brethren.
For what think you can be more awe-striking to our tyrants to hear than that the blood of all they have slain continually cries aloud and accuses them before God?
Because God by this inquiry testified that he was the God of Abel, though now dead; for he inquired after him though now slain and no more.
He judged and condemned the living murderer, and justified the slain righteous Abel.
The comthur talked with the slain Rotgier, as I am talking to you, and the corpse smiled; then he gnashed his teeth, and for joy he licked his livid lips with his black tongue when the old comthur promised him Zbyszko's head.
Sir Arnold was informed in the morning of the flight of the servant of the Order; he chuckled at the news, on the other hand he held the same opinion as Macko, viz, that she might fall a prey to the wolves, or be slain by the Lithuanians.
I have never seen so many slain in one heap, and so much human blood shed.
In the hall again resounded groans, the clash of iron, the gnashing of teeth and the piercing voices of the slain men.
And I waited until the news from Szczytno arrived, that Jurand had slain Germans and fallen himself.
The number of slain Germans, as well as Zmudzians to be buried, was very great, but Zbyszko ordered a special grave to be dug for the wlodykas of Lenkawice, who contributed so much toward the victory.
Suddenly cries of joy are heard, and Idamante, who has slain the monster single-handed, is brought in by the priests and people.
Their words are interrupted by loud cries from without, and several knights and esquires rush in, dragging with them Parsifal, who has slain one of the sacred swans with his bow and arrow.
He recognises her as the bride ordained for him by the gods, but before he can taste his new-found happiness he is treacherously slain by Hagen, while by a mysterious sympathy Brunehild dies from the same stroke that has killed her lover.
Before the beginning of the drama Tristan had slain Morold, Isolde's lover, and sent his head to Ireland in place of the tribute due from Cornwall.
During the ceremony he is recognised by Fidès, who, believing him to have been slain by the false prophet, has followed the army to Munster in hopes of revenge.
But they all, with one accord, said that he himself had slain him, when he was drunken, and shewed him his sword all bloody.
In that isle, is no thief, ne murderer, ne common woman, ne poor beggar, ne never was man slain in that country.
And after that he let slay his own mother; and he would have slain his brother also, but he died suddenly.
For the Jews led him upon an high rock for to make him leap down, and have slain him; but Jesu passed amongst them, and leapt upon another rock, and yet be the steps of his feet seen in the rock, where he alighted.
And other there be that lead their children for to slay, to make sacrifice to that idol; and after they have slain them they spring the blood upon the idol.
And then would he shew them his intent, and say them, that if they would go slay such a lord, or such a man that was his enemy or contrarious to his list, that they should not dread to do it and for to be slain therefore themselves.
And so befell that the king had war with them of Scythia, the which king hight Colopeus, that was slain in battle, and all the good blood of his realm.
Fast by that city is the field Megiddo, in the which the King Joram was slain of the King of Samaria and after was translated and buried in the Mount Sion.
And, at the foot of that hill, Melchisedech that was King of Salem, in the turning of that hill met Abraham in coming again from the battle, when he hadslain Abimelech.
And when they were in a plain that hight Megon, anon this cursed emperor met with them with his host for to have slain them and hewn them to pieces.
And I trow, that unnethe should any country have so much people within him, as lay slainin that vale as us thought, the which was an hideous sight to see.
The next minute the prophet himself was slain by a soldier, who covered him with his musket as he fired at Lieutenant Bennett.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
