Some articles on slain:
... and wounded Cyneheard before himself being slain ... When the king's thanes that were behind heard in the morning that the king was slain, they rode to the spot, Osric his ealdorman, and Wiverth his thane, and the men that he had ... we are as regardless of the result," they rejoined, "as our comrades who with the king were slain." Then they continued fighting at the gates, till they rushed in, and slew the atheling ...
... Amaunator (also called At'ar) Thought to have died, Amaunator was Lathander for centuries then finally reclaimed his name and mission ... Reborn god of bureaucracy, law, order, the sun ...
455, when her land was sacked and people slain or fled ... of his uncle Barahir and remained defending the land until they were slain in 460 ... months after their wedding Huor went to the Nírnaeth Arnoediad, and was slain ...
... his album A Century of Song ("And they sent him down into the war to be slain, be slain.. ... / And they sent him down into the war to be slain.") The song can be downloaded from the band's website here ...
... His father had treacherously slain his nephew, Suibne mac Colmáin (died 600) of the Clann Cholmáin and was then himself slain in battle by Suibne's son Conall ... His brother Conall Laeg Breg was slain in the Battle of Odba by Óengus mac Colmáin Bec (died 621) in 612 ... and his brother Ailill Cruitire were defeated and slain at the Battle of Loch Trethin at Fremainn (Loch Drethin at Frewin Hill, Co.Westmeath) by the same Conall Guthbinn who had slain their father ...
More definitions of "slain":
- (noun): People who have been slain (as in battle).
Famous quotes containing the word slain:
“For winter’s rains and ruins are over,
And all the seasons of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)
“The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the
mighty fallen!
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon;”
—Bible: Hebrew Second Samuel (l. I, 19–20)
“No Raven’s wing can stretch the flight so far
As the torn bandrols of Napoleon’s war.
Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
He’ll make you deserts and he’ll bring you blood.
How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
Has not conscription still the power to weild
Her annual faulchion o’er the human field?
A faithful harvester!”
—Joel Barlow (1754–1812)