Sample Sentences forBeowulf (auto-selected)
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Beowulf, and old Grendel, and Lord Randal My Son, and all those things.† (source)
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Maybe you'll remember that Beowulf fought a monster.† (source)
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This section-a boom-arm and medical ward mod, a ragged chunk of the hull-had been ripped free of the ship as easily as Beowulf had torn the arm from Grendel's body.† (source)
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A short girl with dark curly hair is standing next to him in front of Beowulf.† (source)
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You'll see his name above Beowulf's Gauntlet—written in fiery script, clear as day.† (source)
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You had to know Old English and the History of the English Language and a representative selection of all that had been written from Beowulf to the present day.† (source)
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To be allowed, no, invited, into the private lives of strangers, and to share their joys and fears, was a chance to exchange the Southern bitter wormwood for a cup of mead with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist.† (source)
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Occasionally humani would fight on one side, and their exploits were recalled in great legends like those of Gilgamesh and Cuchulain, Atlas and Hippolytus, Beowulf and Ilya of Murom.† (source)
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Beowulf is largely about the coming of Christianity into the old paganism of northern Germanic society—after being about a hero overcoming a villain.† (source)
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She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes.† (source)
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Then Hrothgar leaves Hart, and so does Beowulf also with his Geats, but the Danes keep guard there.† (source)
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For outstanding courage before the Enemy, the Gauntlet of Beowulf is awarded to Max McDaniels.† (source)
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We lacked only our Geats; our great, broad-shouldered, small-brained Beowulf with his band of merry psycho-paths.† (source)
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Grendel, the monster in the medieval epic Beowulf (eighth century A.D.), is an actual monster, but he can also symbolize (a) the hostility of the universe to human existence (a hostility that medieval Anglo-Saxons would have felt acutely) and (b) a darkness in human nature that only some higher aspect of ourselves (as symbolized by the title hero) can conquer.† (source)
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In the morning is Beowulf fetched to Hrothgar, who tells him of this new grief and craves his help.† (source)
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It was the Gauntlet of Beowulf, and next to it were inscribed the names of those students who had demonstrated exceptional courage.† (source)
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