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  • It is seldom indeed that I give any attention to insulting letters, but I cannot refrain from paying my respects to one Byron Jassack Wales, who, with gray goose-quill for Pelian spear, charges down on the ICONOCLAST as blithely as a gay moss-trooper making an English swine-herd hard to catch.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • From his right shoulder he brandished his terrible spear of Pelian ash, and the bronze gleamed around him like flashing fire or the rays of the rising sun.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Pelian ash from the topmost ridges of Mt. Pelion, which Chiron had once given to Peleus, fraught with the death of heroes.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Aeneas at the very edge, where the bronze was thinnest; the spear of Pelian ash went clean through, and the shield rang under the blow; Aeneas was afraid, and crouched backwards, holding the shield away from him; the spear, however, flew over his back, and stuck quivering in the ground, after having gone through both circles of the sheltering shield.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Thus did he defy him, and Achilles raised his spear of Pelian ash.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • {969} _Admetus moves a few steps forward and the Procession, advances towards the portal_: but the contrast catches his thought between this and another procession towards the same threshold, when, amidst blazing torches of Pelian pine and bridal dances, he led his new wife by the hand, and shouts wished their union happy.

    Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886

  • And forth from its stand he drew his father's spear, heavy and great and strong: that spear could none other of the Achaians wield, but Achilles alone awaited to wield it, the Pelian ashen spear that Cheiron gave to his father dear, from a peak of Pelion, to be the death of warriors.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • Then Achilles in his turn hurled his far-shadowing spear, and smote upon the circle of the shield of Aineias, beneath the edge of the rim, where the bronze ran thinnest round, and the bull-hide was thinnest thereon; and right through sped the Pelian ashen spear, and the shield cracked under it.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • Enyalios warrior of the waving helm, brandishing from his right shoulder the Pelian ash, his terrible spear; and all around the bronze on him flashed like the gleam of blazing fire or of the Sun as he ariseth.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • Thus did he defy him, and Achilles raised his spear of Pelian ash.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

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