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Sentence Examples
| Her fingers itched to draw her sword and slay an evil fiend or rescue some poor soul. |
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| Consider yourself lucky that you don't have to slay a dragon, a rather messy sort of job. |
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| This revolt, joined to an ascetic and sterile devotion to positive fact, would ultimately slay even God. |
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| It's Saturday night, you want to go to the movies, every single one of them will sort of amuse you but not one of them is going to slay you. |
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| They nobly make a decision to risk their lives while trying to slay their friend's murderer. |
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| When he went against the king's orders and refused to slay a band of barbarian captives, he was promptly put under arrest. |
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| He pledged to keep a flinty eye on it and vowed to slay the threatening blip should it grow. |
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| They encounter some small groups of orcs away from the great army and they slay them quickly. |
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| We watched an ice demon breathe fire, and watched a man slay a giant dragon. |
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| Based on the Greek legend of Theseus trying to catch and slay the Minotaur, this is a wonderful story ably told. |
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| Teneb Kel has received his mission from the Dark Council: Find and slay the Emperor's traitorous apprentice, Exal Kressh. |
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| In case you're curious, Ian triumphed over Larry because of his wittier dialogue, which, as someone observed, is the real way to slay your opponents. |
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| He was killed when his plane was shot down and that only encouraged the Hutu militia to slay Tutsi men, women and children, anywhere they could find them. |
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| Classic structures such as piqué weave or slay and pick poplins or gabardines become high-performance fabrics. |
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| He acknowledges these fits of anger, such as the one that caused him to slay his wife with an ax, but he nevertheless shows some remorse for what he has done. |
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| A m I forbidden to hunt and slay the orcs who tormented my mother as do my brothers? |
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| Over in Corrie, Tracy was plotting to slay Liz McDonald and steal The Rovers, Tony and her dignity. |
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| It was the Conservative government that took initiatives to slay that deficit. |
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| The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. |
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| We will slay the deficit with gradual restraint, not by abandoning our commitments. |
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| Second, high levels of taxes that were necessary to slay the deficit are out of line with those in other developing countries. |
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| We remember that when the Liberals actually formed the government way back in 1993 they had claimed that they would slay a huge deficit. |
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| And then in the name of that right, shall I not slay them for murdering their Queen, and be slain in my turn by their countrymen as the invader of their fatherland? |
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| The federal budget will probably talk about both short term measures and long term measures to slay the deficit. |
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| Japanese soldiers engaged in contests to slay the most Chinese with their swords, and gloated over reaching 100 kills. |
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| From beginning to end, we are prey to the movie's diabolical killer, who presents us with a variety of abominable ways to slay and mutilate his victims. |
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| You have to slay the sacred cows, publicly, in a high-profile way. |
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| Their initiation is to slay an infant in front of its mother in order to remove any semblance of humanity or emotion. |
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| But because these tax cuts have powerful, well-connected constituencies, it has been difficult to slay them. |
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| Even when she's forced to slay a dragon, she's on autopilot, going through the motions. |
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| In certain African tribes, one had to slay a lion to prove one's manhood. |
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| This siege cast an even darker shadow on the reputation of the king than his order to slay the French prisoners at Agincourt. |
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| How long will ye whet spears with eloquence, Fight, and kill beasts dry-handed with sweet words? Cease, or talk still and slay thy boars at home. |
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| The hesitation in killing Claudius results from an unwillingness on Hamlet's part to slay his real father. |
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| I crept silently up the hill-road, but the fuse of my matchlock was wetted with the rain, and I could not slay Daoud Shah from afar. |
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| Indeed, squads from the mighty MAC can slay major conference teams like Pittsburgh, Kansas State, Alabama and Purdue, but they can also do a number on one of their own. |
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| Although some of the features enabled by standby power can be useful, a quick look around your home may have you wondering what you can do to slay at least a few of these electricity vampires. |
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| As to those who deny the Signs of Allah and in defiance of right, slay the prophets, and slay those who teach just dealing with mankind, announce to them a grievous penalty. |
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| Sure enough, Master Dar'Nala leads Jedi Knight Fortris Gall and Lieutenant Tavus to the caves to slay the Sith and lay the blame on them for destroying the peace treaty. |
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| If thou dost stretch thy hand against me, to slay me, it is not for me to stretch my hand against thee to slay thee: for I do fear Allah, the Cherisher of the worlds. |
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| It should slay the spirit of solemnity that clouds much of our lives. |
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| It is a call to stand alongside the oppressed and preserve the word of God as good news for all rather than to turn it into a weapon with which to slay the oppressed. |
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| Together, we will win, we will slay this monster. |
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| Their name for Antichrist is Dajjal, and they have a tradition that Jesus will slay Antichrist by the gate of Lydda. |
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| Like him, their exploits are solitary, fantastic and border on fairy tale, as they slay monsters such as the Chimera and Medusa. |
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| The importance of the office is reflected by the Treason Act 1351, which makes it high treason to slay the Lord Chancellor. |
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| He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs. |
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| Afterward, Philomela serves Tereus his deserts when she tricks him into eating his son, but when he tries to finally slay Philomela, she morphs into a bird and escapes. |
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| Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay, and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Or why it is permissible to slay a minute bird such as a snipe, while a titlark is on no account to be touched. |
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| I would have given to thee my man-servants and my maid-servants and all my goods, and thou feignest that an angel hath spoken to thee that I should slay my two children. |
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| O thou of mighty arms, do thou, however, slay my enemies along with all their followers on the expiry of thirteen years. |
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| So we were wroth and made to slay the other baas, but he shot us down with a fire stick and returned to his own country in haste. |
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| And also, if any man or woman be taken in adultery or fornication, anon they slay them. |
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| When the guard mounted to his post he was sure he saw a temerarious Yankee in front of him, and hastened to slay him. |
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| Some of these were makutu spells by which the wizard could slay an enemy, by witchcraft and the power of the evil eye. |
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| Pray God she does not slay a score of us in this rat-trap by her first shot. |
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| They have stolen into the palace unobserved, and together they slay Aegisthus. |
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| He and Pylades will imitate a Phocian dialect and will seek out and slay Aegisthus. |
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| You understand that no matter what the apeman does, you must not try to slay him? |
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| Then they began to make war, to slay people and to bren villages and to do many sore displeasures. |
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| It is a remarkable fact that many physicians diagnosed the disease as chickenpox, until it began to slay many of its victims. |
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| They will not come to loot Cusco Hurrin and slay my people, but to make friends and teach them? |
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| So the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon. |
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| Ephraim also did not slay the Chanaanite that dwelt in gazer, but dwelt with him. |
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| Sometimes they slay their own wives, and invite their neighbours to the repast. |
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| And Karna also, his soul and faculties possessed by the inmost soul of Naraka, had at that time cruelly determined to slay Arjuna. |
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| Bearing that invincible Vaishnava energy in thyself, slay thou, O great king, that Daitya of fierce prowess. |
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| Did not the Divine Amen-hetep the osirian slay with his own hand more than a hundred lions? |
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| He does not say, I will so overrule all others that no one shall slay thee. |
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| Then whom first, whom last did Hector, the son of Priam, and brazen Mars slay? |
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| The renegado perceived it, and sought not to slay him, but to take him alive. |
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| Recognizing rodrigo among the courtiers, she called to him to slay her also. |
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| Before Perry and I came the men of Pellucidar had only the crudest weapons wherewith to slay one another. |
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| Then you hold, Priest, that Jahveh has power to slay us when he is angry? |
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| Pardon, mighty leopardess, but let me ask how do you propose to slay me? |
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| If you want to grow purer and liker Christ, you must slay yourselves. |
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| Now thou hast thy sword again and mayst slay me if thou wilt. |
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| First of all he hastened towards the Asoka grove to slay Sita. |
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| He was her betrayer, her assassin, for he tried to slay her soul. |
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| His first and natural impulse was to cross the line lower down, work up again, and, catching his well-wishers from behind, summarily slay them. |
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| And there are many Greeks in turn for thee to slay, whomsoever thou canst. |
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| Their rage was unmeasured, and the will to slay him was not wanting. |
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| They had vowed to slay Iravat, son of Arjuna and the Naga princess. |
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| Not so hardy, thou bawdy knave, said the damosel, that thou slay him. |
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| We were planning to combine all the prisoners, seize weapons, and when most of Hooja's warriors were away, slay the rest and retake our hilltop. |
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| Rosamund felt just like St. George when he was about to slay the dragon. |
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| With that weapon will he of a hundred sacrifices slay Vritra. |
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| She loved me and when her husband discovered her infatuation she beseeched me to slay him, and when I refused she hired another to do it. |
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| Your people prate of the just laws of Manator, and yet you would slay three strangers without telling them of what crime they are accused. |
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| The sphinx did not slay herself until her riddle had been guessed. |
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| I will mend the sword and Siegfried shall use it to slay the dragon. |
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| Their swords were drawn, and they were seeking for Nicolette to slay her. |
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| He will slay more men in a day than a troop of horse in a ten-mile chase. |
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| Or have the Trojans been allotting you a demesne of passing richness, fair with orchard lawns and corn lands, if you should slay me? |
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| When cain wished to slay his brother, he was at no loss for a weapon. |
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| Ye do not mean to slay, ye judges and sacrificers, until the animal hath bowed its head? |
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| And then Sir Marhaus alight down, and bad the duke yield him or else he would slay him. |
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| Then it fell that a fearful Fire-Dragon wasted all the land, and Beowulf, mindful of his deeds of old, set forth to slay him. |
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| The last case is the best, as when in the Cresphontes Merope is about to slay her son, but, recognising who he is, spares his life. |
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| Then they defeat and slay Kansa's two wrestlers Chanura and Mushtika. |
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| This exalted personage is ready to slay all the kurus in battle. |
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| And therewithal he unlaced his helm like as he would slay him. |
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| To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. |
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| There is the country of the Amazons, and the country of the dwarfs, and the country of the fair but evil women who slay with beholding, like the basilisk. |
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| He will have Matai Shang leave others elsewhere on some pretext or other, and then at last he will fall upon us with his confederates and slay us all. |
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| I cannot die unless I be killed by chance, for none dare slay me. |
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| The creature that was to slay the red man was almost within arm's reach of his prey when Carthoris heard a hoarse shout from the opposite side of the courtyard. |
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| This was the appearance of a dreadful epidemic, which, in that age and long before and afterwards, was wont to slay its hundreds and thousands on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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| Then for the first time I spoke, for the soldiers drew near to slay us. |
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| It is thus too that Euripides makes Medea slay her children. |
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