He wrung the Earl’s hand with such frantic earnestness, that his grasp

forced the blood to start under the nail.—Legend of Montrose.

In Rob Roy, Sir Walter makes Frank Osbaldistone say in his elegy on Edward the Black Prince,—

O for the voice of that wild horn,

On Fontarabian echoes borne,

The dying hero’s call,

That told imperial Charlemagne,

How Paynim sons of swarthy Spain

Had wrought his champion’s fall.