24 Verbs to Use for the Word cutlasses

" 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.

It was smartly done; Watkins had taken no cutlass, but went in with both fists, asking no questions, but battering right and left, his men surging after, with steel blades flaming in the sunlight.

Were you injured?" "Notnot seriously; he hurt me terribly, but made no attempt to use his cutlass.

We faced about at him then, and saw that he held a great cutlass in his right hand.

Watkins, you and Carter hand out the cutlasses from the rack; you boys will handle those better than firearms.

Who took his place I never knew, but a stout fighter the lad was, wielding his cutlass viciously, so that we held them, with dead men littering every step to the cabin deck.

Righetti, who descended after him, remained behind, because the persons were in the way who caused the outcry, and who, brandishing their cutlasses, had surrounded Rossi and were loading him with opprobrium.

Soon after, Bolidar, with five men, well armed, came to us; he having a blunderbuss, cutlass, a long knife and pair of pistolsbut for what purpose did he come?

Some weeks after this affray, a chieftain of the name of Quarmo went on board the same vessel to borrow some cutlasses and muskets.

As it fell, it tore up the bitts, broke in the hatch way, and burst through both our sides, starting the planks under her wale, melting several cutlasses & pistols, and firing off several small arms, the bullets of which stuck in her beam.

His gaze came back to the tall man, and, observing again the heavy cutlass he carried, a thought leaped up in his mind.

I breathed deep, and saw cutlasses in harmless shadows.

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

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.

Craddock clutched at the fellow's wrist, but at the same instant his mate snatched the cutlass from his side.

Manuel led them yelling encouragement, and sweeping his cutlass, gripped with both hands, in desperate effort to break through.

We had gotten perhaps halfway, when one of the men shouted that he saw something ahead; but the bo'sun had seen it earlier; for he was running straight down upon it, holding his torch high and swinging his great cutlass.

So, after allowing her a short time for preparatory prayer, they led her into a room made ready for the purpose, where a cloth was spread on the floor, and an older girl stood behind her, lifting a large cutlass, and seemingly prepared to chop off the child's head.

" The captain, who was heavily armed, carrying a cutlass as well as pistols, smiled sourly.

Now the bo'sun was upon his feet almost before I had made an end of shaking him, and catching up his great cutlass which he kept always by his side, he followed me swiftly out on to the hill-top.

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

First, however, the bo'sun handed out to us the two cutlasses and the cut-and-thrust (the other two cutlasses being in Josh's boat), and, taking one himself, he passed me the cut-and-thrust, and gave the other cutlass to the biggest of the men.

Towards the close of the battle of Navarino, one of our midshipmen, a promising youth of about fourteen, was struck by a cannon-shot, which carried off both his legs, and his right-hand, with which the poor fellow had been grasping his cutlass at that moment.

By the way they gripped the cutlasses that had been served out, by their grim faces, and eager eyes, Ken felt certain that there would be no hesitation when the critical moment arrived.

24 Verbs to Use for the Word  cutlasses