cutlas
Example Sentences
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"His arm's just as good as a new wooden one, and his repartee is as sharp as the cutlas that broke the skin on it."
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine
Even Pearse fell under the spell of fierce action; his rapier played among the heavier strokes of cutlas and broad-knife like summer lightning.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle
Thrusting the cutlas beneath his belt, he clutched a handful of the black dust.
From Isle of the Undead by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Dolores, agile as a panther, reached the pirate with her cutlas pointed, and the steel hilt rang against his breast-bone.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle
As to this matter, the señor showed him a short, straight, wide-bladed sort of cutlas, which he called a machete.
From Ahead of the Army by C. Chase Emerson
