The reason why they had so much courage and fought with such great exertion against us was that they did not know what kind of a weapon the sword was, or how it cuts.

No more, trust not the ayre With our projections, let us all revenge Wrongs done to our most noble kinswoman: Action is honours language, swords are tongues, Which both speake best and best do right our wrongs.

Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one!

The newly come Turks were invited finally to settle on the extreme north-western fringe of the Seljuk territoryin a region so near Nicaea that their sword would be a better title to it than any which the feudal authority of Konia could confer.

As a nation, he has lived by the sword, and he is dying by the sword, because the sword, the mere exercise of force by one man or group of men upon another, conquest in other words, is an impossible form of human relationship.

Swords are not forty-fives, and the Twentieth Century is not the Thirteenth.

A sad preliminary to bringing the country under the rule of the Prince of Peace; but in the scheme of those days the sword was equal partner with the cross in leading men to the true God.

THIS SWORD OUT OF THIS STONE AND ANVIL IS THE TRUE-BORN KING OF BRITAIN.

That sword was his soul.

A SOLDIER Is the husbandman of valour; his sword is his plough, which honour and aqua vita, two fiery-metalled jades, are ever drawing.

But if it is true that the sword of Mohammed was the influence which subjected Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Persia to the religion of Islam, it is no less true that the Roman empire was finally conquered to Christianity by the sword.

Self-preservation is the first instinct of nature, and therefore any state of society in which the sword is all the time suspended over the heads of the people must at last become intolerable.

The sword, father, is the best theologian, the best casuist.

The sword was their passport; a history of American filibustering in the Mexican revolution.

The Sword of Bevis of Southampton was Morglay, and his steed Ar'undel.

The glittering sword is whet and held over them, and the pit hath opened her mouth under them.

Whether this sword is an imagination of Patsy's fading brain, I cannot say; perhaps he had some old sword and lost it.

A few days will no doubt settle the matter, and the sword or slavery will be the portion of Odda and the rest of Alfred's men; meantime there is spoil enough in the camp from Devonshire homesteads, which brave men can revel in round the war-flag Raven, while they watch the Saxon ramparts.

Born in the western world, his hand Maintains its hostile cause, And fierce against Britannia's band His erring sword he draws; Yet feels the captive Briton's woe; For his ennobled mind, Forgets the name of Britain's foe, In love of human kind.

Henceforth the sword becomes to him the bright but awful instrument through which the will of Allah is achieved.

" "Well," said the damsel, "you are unwise to hold the sword from me, for with it you shall slay the best friend that you have, the man you best love in all the world; and the sword shall also be your destruction.

That man was Napoleon Bonaparte, the man whose sword was a ploughshare turning up the fallow fields of Europe, and sowing strange crops of tyranny and liberty, and whose ambition it was to set up a new throne in the land of the Pharaohs and Ptolemies.

no, boy; thou seest this sword is mine. BLO.

In the sandy crust of the heath there is iron, and swords and spears were the grim need of that day.

Gaston, her son, having left Saint-Cyr three months previously, was now at the Cavalry School of Saumur, so fired with passion for a military career that he already spoke of remaining a bachelor, since a soldier's sword should be his only love, his only spouse.