scimiter

Example Sentences

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Others succeeded, some heavily armed, others à la gineta, with lance and buckler; and lastly came the legions of foot-soldiers, with arquebus and cross-bow, and spear and scimiter.

From Washington Irving by Warner, Charles Dudley

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 Headley, Joel Tyler

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 Webster, Noah

“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 Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)

Evidently a scimiter had performed this surgical operation, Pobloff mused.

From Visionaries by Huneker, James