I breathed deep, and saw cutlasses in harmless shadows.

Brutus went to the arms rack in the corner, and selected a rusted cutlass from the small arms that still rested there, thrust it at me playfully and grinned.

I could almost imagine I caught the gleam of silver-butted horse pistols and cutlasses at his waist.

A number, however, who seemed to bear charmed lives, seized their cutlasses with their teeth, and swam boldly for the ship.

He was dressed in a black uniform set out with rusty gold lace, and he had a great cutlass by his side in a brass sheath.

" Watkins needed no help; he had his party rounded up, and in complete control, the fellows begging for mercy, as they crouched before the cutlasses of their assailants.

The negro Sam grinned from ear to ear, executing a jig, as he flashed his cutlass above his head.

Taking advantage of the discontent, he caused Ramiro to be massacred one morning in the market-place, and his body exposed upon a gibbet, with a cutlass near it stained with blood.

" He fitted the smoking lantern back onto the shelf to have his hands free for action, and drew a cutlass out of the arm rack, running one leatherly thumb along the blade to test its sharpness.

Rusty firelock on his shoulder; Rusty cutlass on his thigh; Never jollier British subject Rollicked underneath the sky.

When my corn was ripe, I used a cutlass as a scythe, and cut off the ears, and rubbed them out with my hands.

Red Ringan sat on a stone with a naked cutlass across his knees.