man-slaying

But now, in the wake of the English riots and faced with possible collapse, we are at last beginning to talk about the issues ignored while the illusion persisted: equality, exclusion, the feral rich and the discarded poor and, in WH Auden's words, about "what the god had wrought / To please her son, the strong / Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles / Who would not live long."

As the dream of economic growth dies, a new plan awaits testing | George Monbiot 2011

When you have robbed Cycnus of sweet life, then leave him there and his armour also, and you yourself watch man-slaying Ares narrowly as he attacks, and wherever you shall see him uncovered below his cunningly-wrought shield, there wound him with your sharp spear.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Very greatly did he excel in war together with man-slaying Hector and brake down the wall, bringing woes upon the Danaans.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Have no secret fear at the noise of man-slaying Ares who now rages shouting about the holy grove of Phoebus Apollo, the lord who shoots form afar.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

I guess I still have my man-slaying skills and that cracks me up.

scorpi07 Diary Entry scorpi07 2005

We'll just attribute it to my passive man-slaying skills that work without my knowledge.

scorpi07 Diary Entry scorpi07 2005

For Jeremiah says, "Behold, neither thine eyes nor thy heart are good; but [they are turned] to thy covetousness, and to shed innocent blood, and for injustice, and for man-slaying, that thou mayest do it."

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

And who pointed out to this accursed man-slaying serpent that the sentence of death pronounced against them by God would not take [immediate] effect, when He said, "For in the day that ye eat thereof, ye shall surely die?"

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Very greatly did he excel in war together with man-slaying Hector and brake down the wall, bringing woes upon the Danaans.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

Have no secret fear at the noise of man-slaying Ares who now rages shouting about the holy grove of Phoebus Apollo, the lord who shoots form afar.

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod