His bloody hand

Snatched two unhappy of my martial band,

And dashed like dogs against the stony floor.—Pope: Hom. Odys.

The Pilgrim oft

At dead of night, ’mid his orison, hears

Aghast the voice of time, disparting towers,

Tumbling all precipitous down-dashed,

Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.

—Dyer: Ruins of Rome.

What! like Sir Richard, rumbling, rough, and fierce,