When the Castilian royal standard-bearer fell, the already demoralized troops on the rear thought their King was dead and started to flee in panic ; in a matter of moments this became a general rout where Juan of Castile himself had to run at full speed to save his life, leaving behind not only common soldiers but also many still dismounted noblemen.

When he had dismounted from his horse and proceeded to archery, Optila and his friends attacked him.

When, during the conquest of Jerusalem, Caliph Umar had come to Syria, he was met by Khalid ibn al-Walid and Yazid bin abu Sufyan ; Caliph Umar dismounted from his camel and threw sand at them while admonishing them that " it has not been even a year since you have come out of the hunger and hard life of Arabia and you have forgotten all the simplicity when you saw the glamour of Syria's Emperors?

When Shu Lien shows mercy and lowers the sword, Jen slashes Shu Lien's arm.

When Furune returned, he was inconsolably angered for having parted with the treasures, and slew him with the sword-swapping intrigue ( after inviting his brother to wade in a pool ( named Yamuya ), he exchanged his own wooden sword with his brother's real sword and commenced battle ).

When Paulus retaliated by accusing Martinus of treason, the vicarius physically attacked Paulus with a sword, with the aim of assassinating him, but in the end he committed suicide.

When worn with full armour, the tachi would be accompanied by a shorter blade in the form known as koshigatana (" waist sword "); a type of short sword with no hand-guard ( tsuba ) and where the hilt and scabbard meet to form the style of mounting called an aikuchi (" meeting mouth ").

When a snake appeared nearby, Polyidus killed it with the sword.

When the schoolboy passed by as usual, he knocked off the soldier's hat without a second thought and the captain sliced off his head with a swift single stroke of his sword.

When led out to die she was tied to a stake, but the bundle of wood would not burn, or the flames parted away from her, whereupon the officer in charge of the troops drew his sword and beheaded her, or, in some other texts, stabbed her in the throat.

When Solomon suggested they should divide the living child in two with a sword, one woman said she would rather give up the child than see it killed.

When carrying a sword ( which is still done on ceremonial occasions ), European military forces and their cultural descendants use a two-step gesture.

When he runs up the stairs brandishing an imaginary sword and yelling " Charge!

When parrying, always try and direct the point of the sword to the target.

When an enemy, Baron Staszrvitch, claimed the Throne and attacked him with his sword, Ottokar struck him to the ground with his sceptre.

When Menelaus finally found her, he raised his sword to kill her.

When the sword is worn, the sword knot is usually wrapped around the sword guard, or sometimes looped though a slot in the guard.

When Stalin received the sheathed sword, he took it with both hands, kissed the scabbard, and handed it to Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, who mishandled it causing the sword to fall to the ground.

When Regin makes a sword for Sigurd that lives up to his standards, he requests that Sigurd fulfill a vow and kill Fafnir, who is hiding treasure.

When he catches him, Wales dry fires his pistols through all twenty – four empty chambers before stabbing Terrill with his own cavalry sword.

When a snake appeared nearby, Polyeidos killed it with the sword.

When Oedipus, the king of Thebes, realized he had married his own mother and had two sons and two daughters with her, he blinded himself and cursed his sons to divide their inheritance ( the kingdom ) by the sword.

When a soldier is killed in action, the round piece is removed by cutting the short loop with a bayonet, while the oval piece remains with the body.

When only six survivors remained, out of ammunition, a bayonet charge was conducted in which three of the six were killed.

When Rall was again urged to fortify the town, he replied, " Let them come ... We will go at them with the bayonet.

When the Ottomans got up to the trenches the fighting continued with the bayonet.

When Bourke asked about the popular account of the guard bayoneting Crazy Horse first, Little Big Man said that the guard had thrust with his bayonet, but that Crazy Horse's struggles resulted in the guard's thrust missing entirely and lodging his bayonet into the frame of the guardhouse door.

When Jin-tae is about to shoot him, he is wounded by a bayonet strike.

When it was brought in the sergeant was ordered by the same officer to point the bayonet at my stomach.

When the Americans continued to refuse, Springer ordered a bayonet charge against them.

When another Japanese soldier swung a bayonet at him, he turned his rifle on the soldier and shot him dead.

When the bayonet was introduced, the pike was discarded in all European armies except the Swedish and Russian by 1700.

When they turned in the saddle they could see the men behind them, strung out on the prairie in a flat black line.

When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

When these chores were finished, only then, was she allowed whatever freedom she could find.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

When these groups were first formed many prominent and accomplished decorators could not have had the advantage of school training since interior design courses were rare and undeveloped during their youth.

When he had left, I could never remember whether he had poked them in their middles, laughingly, with a thick index finger or whether he was merely so much the sort of person who did this that one assumed the action, not bothering to look.

When the early part of the gradient was flattened, either by using the gradient shown in Fig. 2 or by allowing the `` cone-sphere '' gradient to become established more slowly, Region 2 activity could sometimes be separated into two areas ( donors P. J. and R. S., Fig. 1 and E. M., Fig. 2 ).

When it became obvious that he could stay inside no longer, taking a thousand to one chance Gonzales rushed outside, square against the muzzle of a Winchester.

When she said that she didn't have the money, he said that she could come in for treatment with his office model until she was ready to buy one.

When he heard of his brothers' anger, Palfrey was still hopeful that they could be persuaded to accept his notion of paying wages.

When the visitors, after losing this game, rode along the village streets toward home, the youngsters who could keep abreast of them for a moment or two screamed triumphantly, `` You bunch of hay-shakers!!

When they say that under no circumstances would it ever be right to `` permit '' the termination of the human race by human action, because there could not possibly be any proportionate grave reason to justify such a thing, they know exactly what they mean.

When we were fighting, a few of our orthodox people were lying down in the roads so we could not pass.

When at last she could suffer the insult no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she said in a voice overloud:

When the solution finally came to him, one night while he was in bed, he was so shaken by its simplicity that he could only wonder why it had not occurred to him before.

When Coleridge travelled to Chamonix, he declaimed, in defiance of Shelley, who had signed himself " Atheos " in the guestbook of the Hotel de Londres near Montenvers, " Who would be, who could be an atheist in this valley of wonders ".

When Arminius died before he could satisfy Holland's State General's request for a 14-page paper outlining his views, the Remonstrants replied in his stead crafting the Five articles of Remonstrance.

When Alexander was trying to show that he is divine so that the Greeks and Macedonians would perform proskynesis to him, Anaxarchus said that Alexander could " more justly be considered a god than Dionysus or Heracles " ( Arrian, 104 )

When it came to penal sanctions, no officeholder could impose a fine over fifty drachmas.