Without paying any attention to the sighs which exhaled from my bosom while scouring the rust from my long, two-handed sword, my uncle, magnifying glass in hand, was engaged in the examination of a lot of medals which he had purchased that morning.

For the rest, he punched the swinging ball and worked with the dumb-bells for an hour every morning and evening, and boxed twice a day with Ted Barton in the gymnasium, gaining as much profit as could be got from a rushing, two-handed slogger.

Ain't he cute squattin' there all same hoptoad and a-workin' away two-handed?

He was not a two-handed gunfighter.

For your head (I do not flatter) is not a nob, or the top of a brass nail, or the end of a nine pinunless a Vulcanian hammer could fairly batter a Recluse out of it, then would I bid the smirch'd god knock and knock lustily, the two-handed skinker.

In certain countries decapitation was performed with an axe; but in France, it was carried out usually by means of a two-handed sword or glave of justice, which was furnished to the executioner for that purpose (Fig. 346).

The swords found in Roman tumuli have handles inconveniently small; and the great mediaeval two-handed sword is now supposed to have been used only for one or two blows at the first onset, and then exchanged for a smaller one.

"But I judged thou wouldst come without a two-handed sword.

An effigy of a knight in armor stood at either end, one holding a huge two-handed sword found on Bosworth Field; the walls were covered with helmets and breastplates of the olden time.

Whole cases of swords, with hilts and scabbards of solid gold, studded with gems; the great two-handed coronation sword of the German emperors; daggers covered with brilliants and rubies; diamond buttons, chains and orders, necklaces and bracelets of pearl and emerald, and the order of the Golden Fleece made in gems of every kind.

This "two-handed engine" still stood ready to strike, not, indeed, the other part of itself, but anyone who ventured to deny that it was doing so.

THE REWARD OF KULTUR] At home the great event has been the formation of a Coalition Governmenta two-handed sword, as we hope, to smite the enemy; while practical people regard it rather as a "Coal and Ammunition Government."

Konig stood up and came around his desk to greet each of them with a warm, two-handed handshake.

It seems he is one of the prettiest lightweights the head surgeon ever saw in action, a two-handed fighter with a good right and a good left.

So saying, he instantly assaulted De la Marck with his two-handed sword.

The man is armed in panoply, and wields a huge two-handed sword with a vigor unabated by former struggles.

Though Moussa was unaware, in his abysmal ignorance, of the interesting fact, the great two-handed sword so effectually wielded by the supporter of his captor, was exactly like that of a Crusader of old.

Fetch me my two-hand Sword; I will not leave a head on your shoulders, Wretches.

Fetch me my two-hand sword; I will not leave a head on your shoulders, Wretches.

She comes into your room just as you are about to fill your finest two-handed meerschaum with Navy-cut, and looks at you with a far-away look in her eyes, and a wisp of hair winding carelessly round the neck of her print dress.

Old Nick himself must be a grand, two-handed man, and as such we must give him credit.

Besides bows, arrows, and slings, they had shields and two-handed swords.

They were there by hundreds, and every gem was a fortunewhole cases of swords with hilts and scabbards of solid gold studded with gems, the great two-handed coronation sword of the German emperors, daggers covered with brilliants and rubies, diamond buttons, chains, and orders, necklaces and bracelets of pearl and emerald, and the order of the Golden Fleece made in gems of every kind.

Before reaching the summit of the mountain-chain, the Spaniards traversed the province of Quarequa, of which the ruler, who bears the same name, came to meet them; as is customary in that country, he was armed with bows and arrows, and heavy, two-handed swords of wood.

Even the model (in the grim character of Egmont's executioner) laid aside his two-handed sword, and came round for a peep.