scabbard
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A stunning jeweled dagger hilt and scabbard from Jahangir’s reign incorporate more than 2,000 diamonds, rubies and emeralds set in an intricate pattern in gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
Flashing his club as a sword, he targeted the hole as the bull and completed the routine by wiping the imagined blood off the blade and returning it to an invisible scabbard with a flourish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
Their leader Meir Simcha, who walked round the outpost armed with a large machete in a leather scabbard, said that unlike other Israelis they had not been surprised by the Hamas assault on 7 October.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023
Oftentimes, a kirpan is blunt and even sewn into its sheath or scabbard.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
A knight stands in the road, his shoulders rising and falling, his sword in its scabbard casting a serpentine shadow on the ground.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
Swords, scabbards, armor — weaponry and objects related to combat are plentiful in the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
He also found worked wood in an adjacent niche that turned out to be parts of the swords' scabbards.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023
The three swords that were still in their wooden scabbards were identified as Roman spatha, or long swords, while the fourth, shorter weapon was identified as a ring-pommel sword.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2023
A waiter entered the room carrying eight alarming-looking knives, sheathed in wooden scabbards decorated with mother-of-pearl inlays.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018
Her eyes widen when she catches sight of the scabbards on my back.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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