"The Three-Eyed King has long awaited this moment, the hour of which his destiny is at last unveiled. He leads an army of madness and rage, against which no sane being would willingly stand. Perhaps I am not san
past the ramparts of the impregnable fortresses of the Holy Therns, and upon your way Death in its most frightful form will overtake you—a death so horrible that even the Holy Therns themselves, who conceived both Life and Death, avert their eyes from its fiendishness and close their ears...
He was assailed with fierce blows to the head. 他的头遭到猛烈殴打。 He has been assailed by bad breaks all these years. 这些年来他接二连三地倒霉。 来自《用法词典》 40 ascended v.上升,攀登( ascend的过去式和过去分词 ) 参考例句: He has ascended into heaven. 他已经升入了天堂。 来自...
The veracity17 of this document was never assailed,[7] even by those who during the rehabilitation trial pointed18 out its irregularity.[8] Secondly19, the chroniclers of the period, both French and Burgundian, were paid chroniclers, one of whom was attached to every great baron20. Tringant...
His heart, deprived of its exciting principle, has languished in inactivity, and from the oppression of individuals has resulted the weakness of the state. As self-love, impetuous and improvident, is ever urging man against his equal, and consequently tends to dissolve society, the art of legi...
As soon as I entered the tents a host of menials sprang forward, some to ease me of my armour, some to offer me refreshments, some with hookahs, attar of roses (in great quart bottles), and the thousand delicacies of Eastern life. I motioned them away. “I will wear my armour,”...
But Liébert’s division stoutly211 defended Cazal, and gave back, foot by foot, until they also were under the ramparts. Towards four o’clock the converging German columns, despite frantic212 onsets213 from bands of French infantry, especially on the Givonne front, had thrust these over the...
From the wooden ramparts of St. Louis,—for so he named his fort,—high and inaccessible56 as an eagle's nest, a strange scene lay before his eye. The broad, flat valley of the Illinois was spread beneath him like a map, bounded in the distance by its low wall of woody hills. ...