slain quotes

Ye Highlands and ye Lawlands, O where hae ye been? They hae slain the Earl of Murray And laid him on the green.

-Ballads
'The Bonnie Earl of Murray', stanza1.

For, those that fly, may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain.

- Samuel Butler
  Hudibras, pt.3, canto 3, l.243^4.

If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. See Lang 488:90.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  'Brahma'. Collected in May Day (1867).

O slain and spent and sacrificed People, the grey-grown speechless Christ.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Songs before Sunrise,'Before a Crucifix'.

Madam, there are fifty thousand men slain this year in Europe, and not one an Englishman.

- Sir Robert, 1st Earl of Orford Walpole
  To Queen Caroline, on avoiding British participation in the War of the Polish Succession. Quoted inJohn Hervey Memoirs 1734^43 (1848), vol.1.