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And while Harvard and North Dakota State were slaying favorites here in Spokane in games that bookended this one, Payne is making sure that his legacy – and Michigan State’s advancement – keeps moving forward.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2014

Just ask any number of Australian blokes who turned up for the six-star, WQS comp-the boys were slaying it!

From Time Magazine Archive

It began to look as if tiny David were slaying the Gillette Goliath.

From Time Magazine Archive

While they lived there were great things to be done; and when they died, whether it were slaying the Egyptians or charging the British squares, a Paradise which they could understand awaited them.

From The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Churchill, Winston

In the courtyard the wooers were slaying goats and singeing swine and making ready a great feast.

From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories by Mabie, Hamilton Wright