Easy as falling -- log

Usage examples of offa.

East Anglian nobility, who escaped into their own country, Offa, having extinguished the royal family, succeeded in his design of subduing that kingdom.

Carrying his hypocrisy still further, Offa, feigning to be directed by a vision from heaven, discovered at Verulam the relics of St Alban, the martyr, and endowed a magnificent monastery in that place.

That emperor being a great lover of learning and learned men, in an age very barren of that ornament, Offa, at his desire, sent him over Alcuin, a clergyman much celebrated for his knowledge, who received great honors from Charlemagne, and even became his preceptor in the sciences.

Kenulph was killed in an insurrection of the East Anglians, whose crown his predecessor, Offa, had usurped.

Brithric, king of Wessex, had married Eadburga, natural daughter of Offa, king of Mercia, a profligate woman, equally infamous for cruelty and for incontinence.

Not wanting to indulge in no sprint in that heat, Bill shot a heel offa his boot, and that brung him down squalling blue murder.

Kidd had throwed the loop offa his head and come for me with his mouth wide open, his ears laid back and his teeth and eyes flashing.

He done his best, but all he done was to knock some chunks offa the rocks with his heels.

When he turned to gallop off I jumped offa the wall and landed square on his back, but before I could so much as grab his mane he throwed me clean over the wall and I landed in a cluster of boulders and cactus and skun my shin.

He jest made a half-hearted attempt to bite me but all he done was to bite the buckle offa my gunbelt.

My bullet had hit the lock of his Winchester and mighty nigh jarred his hands offa him.

I riz up with a rock in my hand and bounced it offa the head of a feller which was fixing to shoot me, and he dropped his pistol and fell on top of it.

I then cut the rope and eased the hanged man down onto my saddle and got the noose offa his neck.

Not wanting to indulge in no sprinting in that heat, Bill shot a heel offa his boot, and that brung him down squalling blue murder.

I slapped it aside jest as he fired and the bullet missed me and taken a ear offa Jim Gordon.