scabbard

Whenever an injustice occurred, Hitchens would declare, “The pen of the Hitch will flash from its scabbard.”

A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.

Nevertheless, he was girt with a sword in a ragged scabbard hanging from a frayed and shabby belt of leather.

"I want you to whip this malapert with your sword-scabbard," roared the old patrician, pale with anger.

I had half drawn my sword from its scabbard, but I returned it: I made an inward determination as to his fate, and I kept it.

"One seems to be the scabbard, the other the blade," whispered Albert de Gondi in her ear.