1 The shepherds pour in full tale from the battlefield into the town, bearing back their slain, the boy Almo and Galaesus' disfigured face, and cry on the gods and call on Latinus.
2 For princely Alcides the avenger came glorious in the spoils of triple Geryon slain; this way the Conqueror drove the huge bulls, and his oxen filled the river valley.
3 Next these same kings laid down their mutual strife and stood armed before Jove's altar with cup in hand, and joined treaty over a slain sow.
4 In all the temples was a band of matrons, in all were altars, and before the altars slain steers strewed the ground.
5 Pierced by their own weapons, and impaled on hard splinters of wood, they come half slain to the ground with the vast mass behind them.
6 Then some fling on the fire Latin spoils stripped from the slain, helmets and shapely swords, bridles and glowing chariot wheels; others familiar gifts, the very shields and luckless weapons of the dead.
7 Around are slain in sacrifice oxen many in number, and bristly swine and cattle gathered out of all the country are slaughtered over the flames.
8 It was an admirable artistic exploit, rarely achieved by the best harpooneers of the present day; inasmuch as this Leviathan was slain at the very first dart.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling. 9 For next day after encountering the gay Bachelor, whales were seen and four were slain; and one of them by Ahab.
10 The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one, less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern.
11 He now spoke of the wives and children of the slain; their destitution; their misery, both physical and moral; their distance; and, at last, of their unavenged wrongs.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 12 He had, however, been anticipated by the elder Mohican, who had already torn the emblems of victory from the unresisting heads of the slain.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 13 Thinking of the slain, he achieved a great contempt for some of them, as if they were guilty for thus becoming lifeless.
14 The Samnites, who before had met with many defeats at the hands of the Romans, were at last decisively routed by them in Etruria, where their armies were cut to pieces and their commanders slain.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV. 15 After offering solemn sacrifice they caused all the captains of their armies, standing between the slain victims and the smoking altars, to swear never to abandon the war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV.