You could have killed him if you had chosen, and did not; and no one else shall.' 'Give him us, Prince Wulf! We have not seen blood for many a day!' 'You might have seen rivers of it, if you had had the hearts to go onward.

The boy is mine, and a brave boy.

He has upset a warrior fairly this day, and spared him; and we will make a warrior of him in return.' And he lifted up the prostrate monk.
'You are my man now.

Do you like fighting ?' Philammon, not understanding the language in which he was addressed, could only shake his head--though if he had known what its import was, he could hardly in honesty have said, No.
'He shakes his head! He does not like it! He is craven! Let us have him!' 'I had killed kings when you were shooting frogs,' cried Smid.

'Listen to me, my sons! A coward grips sharply at first, and loosens his hand after a while, because his blood is soon hot and soon cold.