sabre
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France has already returned some of the Abomey royal treasures to Benin and a historic sabre to Senegal.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026
In it, a French geologist mentioned a single sabre shaped fossil tooth resembling those of the massive predator Carcharodontosaurus, originally found in Egypt's Western Desert in the early 1900s.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026
Regardless, the statement amounted to unusual nuclear sabre rattling.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025
For many years, he has been among the best in the Americas in foil and sabre.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
There are lots of girls carrying all kinds of blades: foil, epee, sabre.
From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
This letter will explain how, in Thebais, Some discontents required the sabred hand Of Abulkassen.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
On either side of the door stood a soldier in Cossack uniform, huge fellows, sabred, with their helmets belted under their chins, and their fierce, black eyes staring straight ahead, scarcely blinking.
From The Black Cross by Briggs, Olive M.
Carmagnoled and sabred, they lounged in slothful consultation and obscured the air with bad tobacco-smoke.
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw)
It was a phrase that sabred the spider-webs of logical refinement, and held them up scornfully on the point.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Zangwill, Israel
Only at long intervals was the silence broken by the return of a plumed and sabred general, his father, from the wars.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur
Half a dozen huzzaing and sabring troopers saw the three and shouted to others nearer yet.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
Page 453, line 40, read "sabring" for "sobering."
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus
If I were to march into Moldavia," a Rumanian was telling me, "against the enemies of Austria, I would have to begin by sabring all the Moldavian peasants, who are crying, 'Down with Austria!'
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
