104 Words to use with swords

My father, frowning slightly, rubbed his thumb along his sword blade.

I had a natural genius for the thing, as some men have for sword-play, and Weir was a zealous teacher, for he loved his flint-locks.

And straightway came one from the rear, where rode the servants and men-at-arms, a great, bronzed fellow, bearded to the eyes of him, loosing his sword-belt as he came; who, having tossed aside cap and pourpoint, strode toward Beltane, his eyes quick and bright, his teeth agleam through the hair of his beard.

"Allen returned to England without a scratch, and his opponent was carried back to Paris with a sword-thrust through his heart, and buried beside his royal relatives at Saint Denis.

Ringan was speaking very gravely, with his eyes shining like sword points.

They found out at last the manner in which the sword cuts, and thought it best to let us enter.

"Nought to matter, lad, save that it is my sword-arm: nay indeed, my Beltane, 'twas but an axe bit through my vanbrace, 'twill heal within the week.

Wild with apprehensions of reaching the land without danger, he sat down and madly whittled a hole in the bottom of the boat, making it, as nearly as possible, such a one as a sword fish would be likely to cut.

His confederacy with Swift and Pope puts me in mind of that of Bessus and his sword-men, in the King and no King, who endeavour to support themselves by giving certificates of each other's merit.

There was no honour, and little to satisfy even the passion of vengeance, in the sword-strokes that clove one enemy from the shoulder to the waist, smote half through the neck of a second, and laid two or three more dead or dying at my feet.

And now, unthankful, seek you to disgrade And tear the plumes that Sylla's sword hath won?

"I got into my slippers, and reached down an old sword bayonet from the wall; then I picked up my candle, and begged my mother not to come; but I knew it would be little use, if she had made up her mind; and she had, with the result that she acted as a sort of rearguard for me, during our search.

Behind these came the Court in a great crowd, so that presently all the lawn was alive with bright colors, with silk and velvet, with waving plumes and gleaming gold, with flashing jewels and sword hilts; a gallant sight on that bright summer day.

A thorough elaborate gentleman, of the plume and sword-knot order, he was born with the nice sense of gallantry to women.

We walked up and down before the stretches of painted canvas, balancing in our desire a sword-swallower against an Indian Princess.

"It is the sword-stick I sent papa for the New Year.

Our army officersCol. FISK for examplewho are ignorant of the sword exercise may derive a hint from this spirited work, as to the importance of obtaining a thorough mastery of the fence.

" ...the raven wandered Swart and sallow-brown; the sword-flash stood As if all Finnsburg were afire.

If ye be minded to sell that long sword o' thine, to none better market could ye come, for there be ever work for such about Black Ivo.

He waited a moment, politely cursed the dust, knocked again, threw his slender sword-cane under his arm, and wiped the inside of his hat with his handkerchief.

carriages drawing up and setting down; sheriffs, and chaplains, mace bearers, train bearers, sword bearers, water bailiffs, remembrancers, Mr. Common Hunt, the town clerk, and the deputy town clerk, all bustling aboutthe bells ringingand I late, with a hole in my inexpressibles!

The Lascar had an old silver sword-guard, which he bartered for a few fishing-hooks.

Neither party to object to each other's weapons; and if a sword breaks, the contest to continue with the dirk.

Light blue scorpion-grasses and forget-me-nots were there too, not only among the sword-flags and the tall fescue-grasses by the bank, but little islands of them dotted about a over the brook.

In his sword-hand, he wielded a small clasp-knife, which did the alternate duty of a toothpick and a whittler,[K] for which latter amusement he kept a small stick in his left hand to operate upon; and the floor bore testimony to his untiring zeal.

104 Words to use with  swords