On the shore at Dawson, curious ones gathered to watch the river freeze, heard from out of the darkness the war-song of Shorty: ❋ Unknown (2010)
And I came between, spear in hand, and singing the war-song of my people. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore raised on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen ❋ Unknown (2004)
Then sang on her head that seemly blade its war-song wild. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He spun them around his head, making them sing their own wild war-song as he waded towards the pygmies, slaughtering with a kind of joy I had only seen once before in my father when he had faced Gaynor's men. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (2003)
It was not long coming; the new arrivals set up the war-song, and Gidi Mavunga thought it time to make a demonstration. ❋ Unknown (2003)
One sang a war-song, another a love-song, a third some song of the sea, whilst the fourth, an Eesa youth, with the villanous expression of face common to his tribe, gave us a rain measure, such as men chaunt during wet weather. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He also sang a snatch or two of what was evidently a war-song. ❋ Moorcock, Michael, 1939- (2003)
He sighed, rolled over the other way, fought the blanket around him again, tried to recall the lyrics to that war-song he'd sung in the Moonstone, hoping the exercise might ease him into sleep. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)
Recollection rushed in of Trohdwyr, who died on Diomedes whither she was bound; of her father on horseback, a-gallop against a windy autumn forest, and the bugle call he blew which was an immemorial Merseian war-song; of her mother cuddling her while she sang an Eriau lullaby, ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)
But one day those great hands picked up the harp more hastily than usual and with a war-song clashed the strings; and presently there came a sharp twang or two, and the singer looked at Blondel like a schoolboy caught in mischief for the harp lay a wreck in his hands. ❋ John Preston True (N/A)
He has recorded also their horrid custom of drinking the blood of their enemies, and making drinking vessels of their skulls, reminding us of the war-song of the savage of Louisiana: -- ❋ Various (N/A)
With the wild war-song of Okoyong the forest familiar, but words were strange and wonderful; ❋ W. P. Livingstone (N/A)
Athens raised a paean, or war-song, so similar to that of the ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Perched on a safe eminence, the Prophet looked down upon the fight, chanting his war-song further to excite the savages, and rattling deers 'hoofs as signals for advance or retreat. ❋ Ethel T. Raymond (N/A)
Buddhist evening prayer, when the soldiers tramped round like a human prayer-wheel, was, I subsequently discovered, the chanting of a war-song which had been composed by General Fukushima himself. ❋ George Lynch (N/A)
On the 24th April 1792, the day before the departure of a detachment of volunteers, Dietrich, the Mayor of Strasburg, gave a banquet to their officers, and during dinner requested Rouget, then an officer in the engineers, to compose a war-song for them. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
