Hereward

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Page 394 - Sachentege was made thus : it was fastened to a beam, having a sharp iron to go round a man's throat and neck, so that he might no ways sit, nor lie, nor sleep, but that he must bear all the iron.
Page 241 - Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
Page 394 - They greatly oppressed the wretched people by making them work at these castles, and when the castles were finished they filled them with devils and evil men. Then they took those whom they suspected to have any goods, by night and by day, seizing both men and women, and they put them in prison for their gold and silver, and tortured them with pains unspeakable, for never were any martyrs tormented as these were.
Page 154 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God ; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 394 - Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land, — wretched men starved with hunger, — some lived on alms, who had been erewhile rich : some fled the country, — never was there more misery, and never acted Heathens worse than these.
Page 190 - Wood and the patches of the primeval forest; while dark green alders, and pale green reeds, stretched for miles round the broad lagoon, where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the notes of all the birds around; while high overhead hung motionless, hawk beyond hawk, buzzard beyond buzzard, kite beyond kite, as far as eye could see.
Page 394 - Truserie, and when the wretched townsfolk had no more to give, then burnt they all the towns, so that well mightest thou walk a whole day's journey or ever thou shouldest see a man settled in a town, or its lands tilled. . . . " Then was corn dear, and flesh, and cheese, and butter, for there was none in the land. Wretched men starved with hunger. Some lived on alms who had been once rich. Some fled the country. Never was there more misery, and never heathens acted worse than these.
Page 54 - Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust. 8 They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blasphemy ; their talking is against the Most High.
Page 8 - ... in the rich grass-fen. For always, from the foot of the wolds, the green flat stretched away, illimitable, to an horizon where, from the roundness of the earth, the distant trees and islands were hulled down like ships at sea. The firm horse-fen lay, bright green, along the foot of the wold ; beyond it, the browner peat, or deep fen ; and among that, dark velvet alder beds, long lines of reed-rond, emerald in spring, and golden under the autumn sun ; shining "eas...
Page 199 - And where am I to get fish for Lent, Sir Priest, if every rascal nets my waters, because his father did so before him ? Take your hand off my bridle, or, par le splendeur Dex" (Ivo thought it fine to use King William's favorite oath),

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