| 1884 - 526 páginas
...born.« lautet in der bei Kuhn und Schwartz aus Scott's Daemonology and Witchcraft mitgetheilten sage : »Woe to the coward, that ever he was born Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn.« In einer andern irischen sage (Dherro Dhirlha oder Die schlafenden krieger), mitgetheilt in K. v. K.'s... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - 1991 - 312 páginas
...their visitor was blown back into common life, these words sounding after him on the wind : Cursed be the coward that ever he was born Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn. No man has a right to give the signal for such a battle by blowing the horn, unless he has first drawn... | |
| 2004 - 388 páginas
...to seize the enchanted sword; but at the same moment a voice pronounced aloud the mysterious words: "Woe to the coward, that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn!" At the same time a whirlwind of irresistible fury howled through the long hall, bore the unfortunate... | |
| Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1896 - 264 páginas
...voice, far above the champing steeds and the clanking warriors, called out in tones of thunder — Woe to the coward that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn. At the same moment a whirlwind of terrific force and fury swept Dick out of the subterranean hall like... | |
| Walter Scott - 188? - 970 páginas
...seize the enchanted sword; but at the same moment a voice pronounced aloud the mysterious words : — " Woe to the coward, that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn ! " At the same time a whirlwind of irresistible fury howled through the long hall, bore the unfortunate... | |
| 1881 - 788 páginas
...and there was blown back into common life these words sounding after him on the wind : " Cursed be the coward that ever he was born, Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn." No man has a right so give the signal for such a battle by blowing the horn, unless he has first drawn... | |
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