He kept an hill with thirty thousand men; Ten thousand horse, the rest were all on foot Against the Turkes that lay like Grashoppers, Filling those plaines, eight miles in compasse round: This little handfull, roulde and turnde about, On that hils top in strong and close array, Flamde like a Candle
mongst a world of fives, That burnt themselues, ere they could put it out: At length with trauell tyrde, with blows & wounds All rent and torne, choakt vp with smoake & stench Of bodies dead: match, poulder, bullets spent This light did glimmer, flasht, and so went out.
MONGST the records relating to the First World War held by Gwynedd Archives Service are records relating to the role women played during the war.
Brar, was
mongst the policemen present at the holy shrine.
My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul, Whom fair befall in heaven '
mongst happy souls, May be a precedent and witness good That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood.
the never-surfeited sea Hath caused to belch up you, and on this island Where man doth not inhabit, you '
mongst men Being most unfit to live.
Upon completion of his tale, Una responds, "O happy Queene of Faries, that hast fownd /
Mongst many, one that with his prowess may defend thine honour, and thy foes confound;" (FQ 1.9.16).
Grammie wishes that Tillie would spend her time with Pep, one of her boarders, "out '
mongst some quality folks" (288).
de elders would go '
mongst de floks an' put dey han' over
But yearly I survey my country native, And, '
mongst 6 cases, live upon the dative.
world's ue, yet
mongst ght Sir t of the ng Cup , Burnpened.
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MONGST all the doom and gloom regarding the global economic situation, I feel there is genuine hope after the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of America.
Amidst the description of a lavish mural of the sexually charged story of Venus and Adonis, and a dominant theme of debauchery, Spenser interrupts the scene with an uncharacteristically didactic stanza directed to his female readers: Faire Ladies, that to love captived arre, And chaste desires do nourish in your mind, Let not her fault your sweet affections marre, Ne blot the bounty of all womankind; '
Mongst thousands good one wanton Dame to find: Emongst the Roses grow some wicked weeds; For this was not to love, but lust inclind; For love does always bring forth bounteous deeds, And in each gentle hart desire of honour breeds.
For Knight's travels--in the Middle as well as the Near East--had demolished Byron's singularity: more than 'one poet [had] travelled '
mongst the Turks'.
