scimiter
Example Sentences
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“Why, you’ve got your dagger on, sir,” hesitatingly suggested the lad, as he caught the gleam of a small scimiter among the folds of Almanzor’s tunic.
From Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time by George C. Hazelton
Evidently a scimiter had performed this surgical operation, Pobloff mused.
From Visionaries by James Huneker
Others succeeded, some heavily armed, others a la gineta, with lance and buckler; and lastly came the legions of foot-soldiers, with arquebus and crossbow, and spear and scimiter.
From Washington Irving by Charles Dudley Warner
“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
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 Charles Dudley Warner
