"Battel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the fighting between the barons and the King's forces at Rochester, Battel and elsewhere reached the ears of Norman of Torn a few days after the coming of the King's message, but at the same time came other news which hastened his departure toward the south. This latter word was that Bertrade de Montfort and her mother, accompanied by ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... enacted high treason For a man to speak truth 'gainst the head of a state, Let every wise man make a use of his reason To think what he will, but take heed what he prate; For the proverb doth learn us, He that stays from the battel sleeps in a whole skin, And our words are our own if we keep them within, What fools are we then that to prattle do begin Of things ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... conquering Caesar Labour through the worlds deep Seas of toyls and troubles, Dangers, and desperate hopes? to repent afterwards? Why does he slaughter thousands in a Battel, And whip his Country with the sword? to cry for't? Thou killd'st great Pompey; he'l kill all his kindred, And justifie it: nay raise up Trophies to it. When thou hear'st him repent, (he's held most holy too) And cry for doing daily bloody ...
— The False One • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
... has answer'd that point, good Captain Whiff; 'tis the Event of this Battel we ought to dread; and if won or lost, will be equally fatal for us, either from the ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... Game is the Game of Chesse, 7. wherein as it were two Armies fight together in Battel. Ingeniosissimus Ludus est Ludus Latrunculorum, 7. quo veluti duo Exercitus ...
— The Orbis Pictus • John Amos Comenius
... I think sich able boddied men wood look better tillin the sile than dressin theirselves up in black close & white kid gluvs & shoutin in a furrin tung. Mister Junky is a noble lookin old man, & orter lead armies on to Battel instid of shoutin in a ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 1 • Charles Farrar Browne
... Mr. Birchall that it is severall days past that he has sent for London Wellington's Battel Sinphonie and that Mr. B[irchall] may send for it at Thomas Coutts. Mr. Beethoven wish Mr. B. would make ingrave the sayd Sinphonie so soon as possible and send him word in time the day it will be published that he may prevend in time the Publisher ...
— Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 of 2 • Lady Wallace |
