cutlas
Example Sentences
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"Whet your tusks, lads, here's the blessed manna!" squealed Caliban, a hunchbacked terror, who kept his maimed carcass secure by virtue of his viperish temper, coupled with an uncanny skill of the cutlas.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle
"Your cutlas did it at the pilot-house, sir."
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine
Then with his cutlas he struck a spark and ignited his threads, carefully nursing the tiny flame until he could find a dry stick.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle
Catching up a cutlas I followed him into the open.
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
