He turned to his son. "Oisi'n, my heart, kill me this honourable hag." But for the only time in his life Oisi'n shrank from a combat. "I cannot do it" he said, "I feel too weak."
Fionn was astounded. "Oscar," he said, "will you kill me this great hag?"
Oscar stammered miserably. "I would not be able to," he said. Cona'n also refused, and so did Caelte mac Rona'n and mac Lugac, for there was no man there but was terrified by the sight of that mighty and valiant harridan. Fionn rose to his feet. "I will take this combat myself," he said sternly.英文原著 · 《Irish Fairy Tales》
The regular weapons were swords and shields for men of gentle blood. They fought by alternate separate strokes; the senior had the first blow. The fight must go on face to face without change of place; for the ground was marked out for the combatants, as in our prize ring, though one can hardly help fancying that the fighting ground so carefully described in "Cormac's Saga", ch. 10, may have been Saxo's authority. The combatants change places accidentally in the struggle in one story.英文原著 · 《The Danish History》
Ten lords sat drinking at the wine, Intill a morning early; There fell a combat them among, It must be fought,--nae parly.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Their ardent fearless character, seeks fair and open combat only. But enmity has its moments of pause. Then they assemble to sing and dance. We always found their songs disagreeable from their monotony. They are numerous, and vary both in measure and time. They have songs of war, of hunting, of fishing, for the rise and set of the sun, for rain, for thunder and for many other occasions. One of these songs, which may be termed a speaking pantomime, recites the courtship between the sexes and is accompanied with acting highly expressive. I once heard and saw Nanbaree and Abaroo perform it.英文原著 · 《A Complete Account of the Settlement》
"Well," resumed Desroches, "he was one of the combatants; and now for the other. You have heard more or less talk of one Claparon?"英文原著 · 《A Man of Business》
And to Hermione came a melancholy devoid of all violence, soft almost as the warmth upon this sea, quite as the resignation of the fatalistic East. She felt herself for a moment such a tiny, dark thing caught in the meshes of the great net of the Universe, this Universe that she could never understand. What could she do? She must just sink down upon the breast of this mystery, let it take her, hold her, do with her what it would. Her subtlety against Emile's! She smiled to herself in the dark. What a combat of midgets! She seemed to see two marionettes battling in the desert.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
- He's in trouble for being an enemy combatant. - Yes, but we only concluded he was an enemy combatant because of what he said.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
That was a big room full of Republican primary voters booing an American combat soldier who, as he was speaking, was in combat.美剧 · 《The News Room》
My whole career I've run operations. logistics, combat, organization.美剧 · 《Billions》
How else do we combat the notion that I'm not really connected to the community?美剧 · 《Billions》