Do not let it be supposed that I had become a swash-buckler of a soldier.

So saying, he advanced upon the scowling three, his eyes a-dance, his nimble feet light-poised for swift actionfor lusty rogues were these, who, seeing him alone, forthwith met him point and edge, besetting him with many swashing blows, that, whistling, did but cleave the empty air or rang loud upon his swift-opposing blade.

"Oh, a sorter swash-bucklin' Spanish donthe kind whut likes ter dress up, an' play the dandy.

After passing through a channel, six and seven fathoms deep, which the dry extreme of the sandbank fronting the flat, extending off McAdam Range, bearing South-South-East led through, we hauled over to the westward for a swash way in the sands, extending off the north-west end of Clump Island.

He stands with his legs wide apart, in half-armor, a great sash tied over his shoulder and swinging round his legs, an immense sword at his side, and a great hat with two ostrich-feathers on his head, looking the very type of a "swashing blade.