Only once before had he
fought to the death, but that once had taught him the love of it, and ever after until his death it marked his manner of fighting; so that men who loathed and hated and feared him were as one with those who loved him in acknowledging that never before had God joined in the human frame absolute supremacy with the sword and such utter fearlessness.
It was seen as "great entertainment", the same was no doubt said when gladiators
fought to the death. The tennis authorities have it in their power to stop such unruly behaviour, ban the player from playing, on the assumption that the player cares about their sport, which in the case of Mr Kyrgios seems very doubtful.
Today marks 75 years since hundreds of thousands of young soldiers landed on the coast of France and
fought to the death for our freedom.
It's something we must learn from but we
fought to the death and deserved a point.
As sniper fire whizzed past us, I could not help but recall the historic tale of the Siege of Mecca, when Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr and his remaining loyal followers (two of his sons defected to the rival Umayyad Caliphate) made a last stand at Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, where they
fought to the death. Flashes of the tragic annihilation of the defenders of Forts Alamo and Masada brought chills up and down my spine.
The (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/491269/20130717/new-dinosaur-big-nosed-long-horned-nasutoceratops.htm) dinosaurs appear to have
fought to the death, and some of the (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/306552/20120229/t-rex-world-powerful-bite-study-strong.htm) T rex's fangs are still embedded in the Triceratops' skull.
ARMIES of prehistoric men
fought to the death over women, experts believe.
Macleod insisted: "I was breaking up a fight that could have
fought to the death."
The way Gerard Houllier's men
fought to the death on Sunday to try and salvage a point proves there is no lack of effort in the team.
Not for more than thirty years, until its founding generation had passed from the scene, would the trauma of the 1910 fires begin to heal and would the nation's leading agency for administering wildlands consider fire as anything but a hostile force to be
fought to the death. Because of that link, probably no fire short of the holocausts that accompanied Earth's putative collision with an asteroid along the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary has had such global ecological reach.
This is the story of two men who
fought to the death with pistols.
A separate smaller supercolony has been found in northern Spain but the insects
fought to the death when introduced to the larger group.
The Seaforth Highland-ers traditionally
fought to the death.
Plot: Adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novel of the same name, this is about the Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas and 300 Spartans
fought to the death against the Persian army.
