battailes

My gracious Lord, during the time that I have frequented your countrey, I have heedfully observed, that the Militarie Discipline used in your fights and battailes, dependeth more upon your

The Decameron 2004

The common people of that countrey are verily perswaded, that there is a descent downe into hell by this gulfe: and therefore when any battailes are foughten else where, in whatsoeuer part of the whole world, or any bloudie slaughters are committed, they haue learned by long experience, what horrible tumults and out-cryes, what monstrous skritches are heard round about this mountaine.

A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

Inhabitants themselues many of them perished for hunger, and in one of these battailes one of their Kings was lately slaine.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

This king also, obteined the gouernment of the whole Island of Britaine, and by most sharpe battailes he recouered to his Empire the sixe Islands of the Ocean sea, which before had bene made tributaries by king Arthur, namely

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

The common people of that countrey are verily perswaded, that there is a descent downe into hell by this gulfe: and therefore when any battailes are foughten else where, in whatsoeuer part of the whole world, or any bloudie slaughters are committed, they haue learned by long experience, what horrible tumults and out-cryes, what monstrous skritches are heard round about this mountaine.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Edward the third, lyeth buried at a certaine towne, in the countie of Somerset, commonly called Stoke vnder Hamden: who deceased in the 96. yeare of his age: and that (as it is manifest by the inscription of his monument) after he had valiantly behaued himselfe at the siege of Algizer against the Sarazens, and at the battailes of Benamazin, of Sluce, of Cressie, of Ingenos, of

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

At both battailes; which knoweth this in certaine;

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

His vertue is excellent in the dangerlesse Academy of Plato: but mine sheweth forth her honourable face in the battailes of Marathon, Pharsalia, Poietiers, and Agincourt.

Defence of Poesie 1992

This maner of speech is termed the figure of digression by the Latines, following the Greeke originall, we also call him the _straggler_ by allusion to the souldier that marches out of his array, or by those that keepe no order in their marche, as the battailes well ranged do: of this figure there need be geuen no example.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

The battailes then in two halfe-moones enclos'd him,

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman