But when the hard back yielded not a whit, he noted the belly heedfully, and its softness gave entrance to the steel.

The beast tried to retaliate by biting, but only struck the sharp point of its mouth upon the shield.

Then it shot out its flickering tongue again and again, and gasped away life and venom together.
The money which the King found made him rich; and with this supply he approached in his fleet the region of the Kurlanders, whose king Dorn, dreading a perilous war, is said to have made a speech of the following kind to his soldiers: "Nobles! Our enemy is a foreigner, begirt with the arms and the wealth of almost all the West; let us, by endeavouring to defer the battle for our profit, make him a prey to famine, which is all inward malady; and he will find it very hard to conquer a peril among his own people.

It is easy to oppose the starving.

Hunger will be a better weapon against our foe than arms; famine will be the sharpest lance we shall hurl at him.
For lack of food nourishes the pestilence that eats away men's strength, and lack of victual undermines store of weapons.