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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the piratical Scandinavian chiefs who with their followers ravaged the coasts of Europe during the early medieval period.
Examples
“The hunter, golden bearded like a sea-king, came over the rail and dropped on deck.”
“The young sea-king leaped like a tiger at his foe, thrusting with the shards of the blade.”
People of the Dark
“He wore no helmet, only the great, strangely worked head-band of hard gold, but he bore on his left arm the great shield borne by the dead Rognar; and in his right hand he held the heavy iron mace wielded by the sea-king.”
People of the Dark
“They fell silent and turned as the young sea-king rose to his feet.”
People of the Dark
“Ohtere, ancient and awful, gave answering blow; the sea-king 113 he slew, and his spouse redeemed, his good wife rescued, though robbed of her gold, mother of Ohtere and Onela.”
“His wife set out in the new steamer and sang to the sea-king.”
“‘Why did you throw stones at me?’ roared the sea-king.”
“Soon the sage old sire 112 of Ohtere, ancient and awful, gave answering blow; the sea-king 113 he slew, and his spouse redeemed, his good wife rescued, though robbed of her gold, mother of Ohtere and Onela.”
“Scripture names — a singularly common fashion on the island — and in childhood naturally imbibing the stately dramatic thee and thou of the Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown peculiarities, a thousand bold dashes of character, not unworthy a Scandinavian sea-king, or a poetical Pagan Roman.”
“The old sea-king had died -- leaving young Yaris as the new ruler of his lands and his fleets.”
The Weird Of The White Wolf
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