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" The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. "
A Lady's Cruise in a French Man-of-war - Page 243
by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming - 1882 - 389 pages
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Prose and Poetry for Children

Henry Meade Bland - Children's literature - 1912 - 120 pages
...know, If you'll try to find it out. — Jean Ingelow. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls...
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The House of Love

Elizabeth Cheney - 1914 - 330 pages
...wonderful lilt of the rhythm, the vivid metaphors, the high, clarion note of victory. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea Where the dark wave rolls...
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Expressive English

James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1918 - 488 pages
...a noble type, are the similes in Byron's poem, "The Destruction of Sennacherib:" "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, And the sheen of his spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls...
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Literature and Life, Book 1

Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1922 - 600 pages
...argument can you give to support your opinion? DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB Lord Byron The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold; And his cohorts were gleaming in purple And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee....
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A Short History of Early Peoples to 1500 A. D.: From Cave-man to Columbus

Willis Mason West - History, Ancient - 1922 - 560 pages
..."smitten by the angel of the Lord." This is the incident referred to in Byron's lines : "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold . . . Like leaves of the forest when Autumn has blown, That host on the morrow...
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The Story of World Progress

Willis Mason West - Europe - 1922 - 1074 pages
..."smitten by the angel of the Lord." This is the incident referred to in Byron's lines: "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold . . . Like leaves of the forest when Autumn has blown. That host on the morrow...
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Race

William McFee - English fiction - 1924 - 434 pages
...only they don't know anything about poetry except Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night and the Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold and his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold, and I wish you'd leave me alone though if you do I'll never speak to you again...
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Alfred and Eliza Stark: A Romance from Life in India

Mary A. Cunningham Stark Sircar - Missions - 1925 - 304 pages
...the prophet Isaiah unfo Hezekiah, King of Judah in II Kings c. xix, v. 35 — * "The Assyrian came down like the Wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with Purple and gold, And the sheen of their spears was like Stars on the sea, When the dark waves...
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The Family, Volumes 7-8

Social case work - 1926 - 708 pages
...l>e dim compared with the shining ten minutes when one's father first read aloud : The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were gleaming in yellow and gold. And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls...
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The Family, Volume 8

Social case work - 1927 - 348 pages
...be dim compared with the shining ten minutes when one's father first read aloud: The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold. And his cohorts were gleaming in yellow and gold. And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls...
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