Still, the combat scenes in "The King" have a cruel thrust of their own, with fighters encased in heavy metal and weltering in mud.
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The caging recalls that of Iago, at the end of Orson Welles's " Othello " (1955), and, as "Outlaw King" arrives at its weltering climax, a frenzy of mudbound slaughter, the echo is of Welles's " Chimes at Midnight "(1967).
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Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted through the weltering sea.
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The watchman took him to the watch-house to sleep it off, but when Plunkett looked in on him at about 4 a.m. he found him weltering in blood, having stabbed himself in the neck with a penknife. With immediate attention he was able to explain that he wished to end his life, and when further recovered was sent home in a cab under medical supervision.'Accidents, Offences, &c.; \- Attempted Suicide', The Examiner 1825 (John Hunt, London), p. 748.
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Bret Harte, wrote an editorial from Uniontown (now Arcata, California) against the massacre and would soon need to leave the area due to the threats against his life. In the editorial, Harte wrote: > [A] more shocking and revolting spectacle was never exhibited to the eyes of > a Christian and civilized people. Old women, wrinkled and decrepit, lay > weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long gray > hair. Infants scarce a span long, with their faces cloven with hatchets and > their bodies ghastly with wounds.
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Born to George Bowman and Mary Hite (the eldest daughter of Jost Hite), he was raised on the Bowman family estate on Cedar Creek near Strasburg, Virginia. In 1766, the 17-year-old Bowman played a prominent role in the defence of the area against an Indian raiding party. When one of his neighbors, the daughter of George Miller, arrived at his home seeking help from an Indian raiding party, he took a gun and rode to Miller's home where he was joined by another young man, Thomas Newell. However, they arrived too late to save Miller and his family who were found "weltering in their own blood".
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Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy > ruins it, and there is much blatancy in a lot of recent stories. They drag > in sex too, which is a fatal mistake; sex is tiresome enough in the novels; > in a ghost story, or as the backbone of a ghost story, I have no patience > with it. At the same time don't let us be mild and drab. Malevolence and > terror, the glare of evil faces, 'the stony grin of unearthly malice', > pursuing forms in darkness, and 'long-drawn, distant screams', are all in > place, and so is a modicum of blood, shed with deliberation and carefully > husbanded; the weltering and wallowing that I too often encounter merely > recall the methods of M G Lewis.
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The chorus joins in on the final words, and the remainder of the work is scored for full chorus and orchestra, with soloists. It again sets Milton's words, slightly adapted, from "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity": > ::Ring out, ye crystal spheres, ::Once bless our human ears, :If ye have > power to touch our senses so; ::And let your silver chime :Move in melodious > time, :And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow; :And with your ninefold > harmony :Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. ::Such music (as 'tis > said) ::Before was never made, :But when of old the sons of the morning > sung, ::While the Creator great ::His constellations set, :And the well- > balanced world on hinges hung, :And cast the dark foundations deep, :And bid > the weltering waves their oozy channel keep. ::Yea, truth and justice then > ::Will down return to men, :Orbed in a rainbow; and, like glories wearing, > ::Mercy will sit between, ::Throned in celestial sheen, :With radiant feet > the tissued clouds down steering; :And heaven, as at some festival, :Will > open wide the gates of her high palace hall.
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