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On which of these corpses shall I throw my offerings first, plucking the hair from my head? on the breast of the mother that suckled me, or beside the ghastly death-wounds of my brothers 'corpses?
The Phoenissae 2008
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On which of these corpses shall I throw my offerings first, plucking the hair from my head? on the breast of the mother that suckled me, or beside the ghastly death-wounds of my brothers 'corpses?
The Phoenissae 2008
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Of three death-wounds — the flames had ate the other!
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There were horrible visions of the slaughter in the banquet hall, and the victims paraded their death-wounds before her and mutely asked why she hadn't warned them.
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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There were horrible visions of the slaughter in the banquet hall, and the victims paraded their death-wounds before her and mutely asked why she hadn't warned them.
Arrow's Fall Lackey, Mercedes 1988
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Come and take him out of the house, where he lieth with his death-wounds in the blood.
The Fall of the Niebelungs Margaret [Translator] Armour
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On my mother's two breasts of milk, or upon the death-wounds of my two brothers?
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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"Mord Valgard's son," said Thorhall, "fared to Hauskuld's slaying with Njal's sons, and wounded him with that wound for which no man was named when witness was taken to the death-wounds; and ye can say nothing against this, and so the suit comes to naught."
The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor Unknown
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These lines probably signify gaping death-wounds and the accompanying rows of dots are intended to represent the blood.
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Near me, saddest sight of the many of such a field and not in keeping with all this noise, were mingled alone the thick dead of Maine and Minnesota, and Michigan and Massachusetts, and the Empire and Keystone States, who, not yet cold, with the blood still oozing from their death-wounds, had given their lives to the country upon that stormy field.
Haskell's Account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Paras. 100-125 1909
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