"Armageddon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Thus for the good of your peoples—thus for the Pride of the Race. Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall. Draw now the three-fold knot firm on the nine-fold bands, And the Law that ye make shall be law after the ...
— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling
... thousands to slaughter us and our brethren, the children of the Lord. Look behind you, what do you see? The ships of the tyrant sailing up to encompass the city of the children of the Lord. It is the day of death and desolation, the day of Armageddon, and ere the sun sets red upon it many a thousand must pass through the gates of doom, we, mayhap, among them. Then up with the flag of freedom; out with the steel of truth, gird on the buckler of righteousness, and snatch ...
— Lysbeth - A Tale Of The Dutch • H. Rider Haggard
... then, is not so short; It still recalls the fields we lately bled on; And when it had to choose the likeliest sort For clearing up the mess of Armageddon And making all things new, It chose the man whose courage ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 8, 1919 • Various
... Lord Byron's visit to Argenson, Marquis d', his advice to Voltaire Argyle Institution Ariosto, Lord Byron's imitation of his portrait by Titian Measure of his poetry spared by the robber who had read his 'Orlando Furioso' his courage Aristides Aristophanes, Mitchell's translation of 'Armageddon,' Townshend's poem so called Armenian Convent of St. Lazarus Language Grammar Art, not inferior to nature, for poetical purposes Arts, gulf of Ash, Thomas, author of 'The Book' Lord Byron's generous conduct towards Athens, Lord Byron's first visit to account ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... as they happened, because they have not been falsified by any new evidence; and those detailed descriptions of mine stand true in fact and in the emotion of the hours that passed, while masses of men were slaughtered in the fields of Armageddon. ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs
... Armageddon, where the spirits gathered all the enemies of truth and righteousness together, means the mountain of Megiddo, the memorable field of the overthrow of Sisera's mighty host by Barak. It was also the place of great defeat to the Israelites in the time of Josiah and the ...
— The Revelation Explained • F. Smith
... collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting [medieval times]; tournay[obs3], list; pitched battle. death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon[obs3]. hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war. naval engagement, naumachia[obs3], sea fight. duel, duello[It]; single combat, monomachy[obs3], satisfaction, passage d'armes[Fr], passage of arms, affair of ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... us a year nearer the shadow of the Great War. It brought us to our fourteenth year, at which period Doe's mysterious intrigue with Freedham still awaited solution, and my Armageddon with Fillet still languished in ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond |
