rapier
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And the plot becomes as flexible as Zorro’s rapier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Puss, of course, is armed with a rapier, not a pistol, but the point is taken — as was the inspiration, directly from Leone’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
But only after their rapier hosts punctured them twice in the opening 16 minutes with two goals of ruthless simplicity by Giovanni Simeone.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022
His hand went to his rapier, and he drew it from its hanger in one swift motion.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Accordingly, he brings out the stand-up artist in Cyrano, a man who brandishes one-liners as if they were rapiers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
He was terrific at the World Cup, his dynamism and cleverness at the breakdown helping to protect and unleash the rapiers in his backline.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2016
The object is to make those fights look dangerous, without endangering the swashbuckling performers who brandish the swords and rapiers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2013
An arrangement of earth and skulls – clustered in threes – borders the wooden floorboards of an old-fashioned gymnasium, where fencing rapiers hang ready for use.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
I would not be your equal with pistols’ and Bon: ‘Nor with knives or rapiers too?’ and the lawyer, smooth and easy: ‘Nor knives or rapiers too.’
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
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Othello
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