Again, any of us can see why an officer need not, should not, had better not, and generally does not, sabre a cripple.

Nothing could be more comic, if that is all, than the position of Prussians in Alsace: which they declare to be purely German and admit to be furiously French; so that they have to terrorise it by sabring anybody, including cripples.

The Midlanders rode straight at the guns and sabred every artilleryman at his piece.

The bays follow them, sabring the fugitives.