scimiter
Example Sentences
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When it has a short handle, it is sometimes called a hand bill; when the handle is long, a hedge bill or scimiter.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Can it be? 'twas a flash! that accurst scimiter In thought even cuts thee from Shemselnihar.
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
“Dogs! what signifies this intrusion?” exclaimed Ibrahim Pasha, starting from the sofa, and grasping the handle of his scimiter.
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
Evidently a scimiter had performed this surgical operation, Pobloff mused.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
He heard afterwards that the first king of Kisbakka, a country to the southwest, was an Arab, whose scimiter is still preserved by the natives, and infers that these people may be his descendants.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley
