"Then lay aside the silken robes, the glittering brocade; Be all in vest of leather and twisted steel arrayed; On each left arm be hung the shield, safe guardian of the breast, And take the crooked scimitar and put the lance in rest, And face the fortune of the day, for it is vain to fly, And the coward and the braggart now alone are doomed to die.

Part of his own costume consisted of a short, curved scimitar attached to an embroidered belt the sort of thing that Arabs wear for ornament rather than use.

43 Like a broad scimitar in a broad place bid (thine) hand rest; and 44 In circling fire by night and by day on the (sick) man's head may it abide.

Whose is this handsome scimitar of polished blade and golden hilt?

In one hand he held a useless scimitar, in the other the Koran.

Before long, just as the distant, but fast approaching, cloud curtain began to be ripped and slashed by vivid scimitars of lightning, Roy espied, beneath them, a field, at one end of which stood a prosperous-looking farmhouse, surrounded by buildings and hay stacks.