“Thierry sees he is wounded in the face – bright blood is falling on the grassy plain – hits Pinabel upon his smooth steel casque and cracks it, splits it open to the nasal, and busts his skull, so brains come spilling out, then wrenches free and lets him fall down dead.” […]
“. If a Russ commits assault with a sword, spear, or any other weapon, he who has committed this crime shall pay five pounds of silver according to the Russian law, but if he is poor, all his available property shall be sold, even to the garments he walks in, and those too shall be taken from him.” […]
“The rebellious nobles who had revolted against me and whose skins I had stripped off, I made into a trophy: some in the middle of the pile I left to decay; some on the top of the pile on stakes I impaled.” […]
“Then, sword in hand, with daring front erect,
Mov’d to the gate, where, to his odd surprise,
The frightful Faudon stood before his eyes,
Holding his bloody head in his right hand.” […]
“For he says that Albinus, when hungry, ate give hundred dried figs, a hundred Campanian peaches, ten Ostian melons, twenty pounds of Labican grapes, a hundred fig-peckers and four hundred oysters.” […]
“About this time Hother chanced, while hunting, to be led astray by a mist, and he came on a certain lodge in which were wood-maidens; and when they greeted him by his own name, he asked who they were. They declared that it was their guidance and government that mainly determined the fortunes of war. ” […]
They’re an essential part of the human anatomy for about half the world’s population. Testicles. In most languages, the slang terms for them comes from certain obvious sources: balls, nuts, stones, eggs, etc. “Testicles” has […]
It’s a piece of lace that you put around your neck. OK? Not all of these have to be complicated.
There’s bacon and there’s back bacon and there’s Canadian bacon and there’s stringy bacon. On the face of it, it can be confusing that some clearly different cuts of meat have the same name. So […]
A braggart might seem like a cocky fellow. Even something of a dick. But you can hardly blame them. After all, the word “braggart” is descended from “breeches” aka medieval underwear. Its thought to refer […]
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