The Swede drew his sabre; the Suliote his other pistol.

The guard of Nubian eunuchs with their black glossy countenances, clothed in scarlet and gold, waving their glittering Damascus sabres, and gently bounding on their snow-white steeds, is, perhaps, the most picturesque corps in the world.

'Is it possible, then, that among the night-riders of Lutzow there is none who can use his tongue as well as his sabre?' Over went a table with a crash, and a young man had bounded upon one of the chairs.

Only it's killingly tiresome that they don't wear a sabre.

There was conversation, there were vehement exclamations which, if they had been in English, would have been oathsthere was a sudden movement of the horses and the camels; the outskirts of the crowd surged and broke, and then, above their heads, flashed the sabres of the spahis.

Molly had a custom of swinging her sabre over her head, and hurraing for Mad Anthony, as she called General Wayne.

He bore A sabre of the Ind, and with one stroke He cleaved a bar of iron, split a rock.

He rapped out an oath or two, and then, catching up his sabre and his cap, he clattered away down the stairs.

' You would have been proud of me, my friends, if you could have seen and heard me, for I clashed my sabre as I spoke, and swung my dolman as though my regiment was picketed outside in the courtyard.

My ankles had just been freed, so that I had only to slip my hands out of the cords, and with a single rush I had flown across, picked up my sabre where it lay by the fire, and hurled myself on to the saddle of poor Vidal's horse.

If I were to pass my sabre through you as you sit in that chair, I should do what is just and right.

Vathek fell violently in love with Nouronihar, who was sprightly as an antelope and full of wanton gaiety; and though she was contracted to her cousin and dearly beloved companion Gulchenrouz, he demanded her hand from Fakreddin, who, rather than force his daughter to break her affiances, presented his sabre to Vathek.

I snatched my sabre from the table and rushed out in search of him.

No French, English, Italian or American gentleman would think he had in some way cleared his own character by sticking his sabre through some ridiculous greengrocer who had nothing in his hand but a cucumber.

Then he imitated the gesture of the officer riding beside the guns, and stopping to look off at the field, as, with a shrug, he said: "Ah, les beaux gars" then swung his sabre and shouted: "En avant!"

They left them on the deck, and preserved only their sabres: some few, however, saved their carbines, and, almost all the officers, their fowling pieces and pistols.

" "Of that the less said the better," I answered, pulling out the sabre.

Surely the weight of all this middle-class common sense would save them from any criminal adventures proposed by a military caste rattling its sabre on state occasions?

In former days Ney had received a rich Egyptian sabre from the hands of the First Consul.

Indeed, his teeth resembled sabres, which may have been the reason for their title.

With eager haste the men possessed themselves of these arms, and Gotzkowsky saw with glad pride his rare Damascus blades, his delicately carved silver-mounted pistols, his daggers inlaid with gold, his costly ornamented sabres and guns in the hands of his warlike workmen.

On arriving at the farm, he gave the alarm, and, seizing an old dragoon sabre, he was followed to the scene of action by Mr. James Burke, armed with a gun, and the other man with an axe.

" I went out of the door as I spoke, and shoved my sabre under the house.

Spurring after and then past one of the wheeling braves, he swept his sabre across the fellow's bare throat with a drawing stroke, and half detached the scowling, furious, frightened head from the body.

After this catastrophe, which inspired us with a degree of horror not to be overcome, we threw the arms into the sea; we reserved, however, one sabre in case it should be wanted to cut a rope or piece of wood.