Sentence examples for slain himself from inspiring English sources

Moving into psychiatric mode, though he fares far better as a literary critic, Mr. Daugherty writes "we could say he had sacrificed his marriage in an attempt to shed unhappiness and move ahead: an act so awesome — in the oldest, truest sense of the word — he could not face what he had done, and so he had slain himself".

As often happens in tragedy, the persuasion takes its final form as a heap of dead bodies: not only Antigone's but those of Creon's son, the dead girl's fiancé, who has slain himself over the body of his beloved, and Creon's wife, too, who kills herself in despair at the news of their child's violent end.

Not long after this undertaking, Domnall appears to have been either forced from the Isles, or drawn back to Ireland in an attempt to capitalise on Ua Briain's failing health, only to be slain himself in 1115.

According the article, the name first appears in the Annals of Ulster in the year 853, when a princeling of south-east Ireland named Bruattar mac Aeda was involved in the murder of a rival before being slain himself.

When he realizes what he has done, he slays himself.

Empowered by Athena, Kratos set off on a grand mission of revenge that now, in the new God of War III, published by Sony for the Playstation3, has delivered him to the pinnacle of Olympus as he seeks to slay Zeus himself.

His troops were defeated and he himself slain at the Battle of Bramham Moor.

To avenge himself, Thyestes sent Pleisthenes (Atreus's son, whom Thyestes had brought up as his own and who does not figure in every version of the story), to kill Atreus, but the boy was himself slain, unrecognized by his father.

This is confirmed by the law that if a learned and pious Jew were commanded to slay the ignorant or impious one, or be himself slain, he must accept death rather than kill the other.

He contended that Blackbeard had killed no one until the day he himself was slain.

Here is this, from the company's catalogue: "The upper and lower forearm tubes are secured to a four-position, manually locked elbow mechanism," and this, from God himself, having slain the man's family and saying to Job, Or hast thou an arm like God? And, Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?