The beloved heroes of the Empire now lay still and silent on the bloody ground, wrapped in the tatters of their proud purple cloaks.

Our hero lay in the gravel, clutching his right leg which hung at an odd angle.

Here Britain's greatest naval hero, Horatio Nelson, lay in state after dying at Trafalgar in 1805.

He looked across at the silent walls of the Kremlin, where heroes lay buried, and men who had been mighty, or become that way.

The hero lay on his back, but he blinked wide gray eyes up at me.

Although the gods of magic had departed, the enchantment remained around the crystal bier on which the hero of the elves lay enshrined.

The hero lay dying at the top of the green mountain.

The hero lay dying with nine wounds in his side.

Costa Concordia shipwreck's hero and villain lay bare two souls of Italy 3.