Read full poem →sickening game ;
Freedom, free to slay herself, and dying while they
Dictionary Entry
To kill, murder.
In a Sentence
“Our foes must all be slain.”
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Common Phrases
. slay
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Poetry examples for “slay”
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Read full poem →Ah, do thy will now; slay me if thou wilt;
There is no building now the walls are built,
Read full poem →For the spent night aches into day
When the kings shall slay not or pray,
And the high-priest, accursed and anointed,
Read full poem →Thou the word, the light, the life, the breath, the glory,
Strong to help and heal, to lighten and to slay,
Thine is all the song of man, the world's whole story;
Read full poem →Dead is it then? O wonderful! O strange!
Dead! dead! And we can slay each other then?
If we are wronged, why we can right ourselves;
Read full poem →Shall not His Will be to me life and light?
Yea, Lord, altho’ Thou slay.
Read full poem →“Judge not before that day:
Trust Me with all thy heart, even tho’ I slay:
Trust Me in love, trust on, love on, and pray.”
Read full poem →War. Slay me, my lord, when I offend your grace.
Read full poem →HOPE when I have sung my rounds
Of song, I shall have strength to slay
The wish to chirp on any grounds,
Read full poem →The wheels of the preponderant world,
Set sharp with swords that fool to slay
Who blunders from a poor byway,