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:But soon after, maybe, sword or a sickness, :Or the sword's dealings, or the spear's swiftness

...dicated proper''; the crest is, ''An arm embowed in armour holding a short sword entwined with a serpent all proper''.}}

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*[[Sword and sorcery]] stories

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...e to pass the bull.<ref>Conrad, p.99</ref> When his wife returned with his sword, Mazquiarán killed the bull with a single thrust. The crowd that gathered

...signed by [[John Howard]], were combined to form a hotel, which opened as "Sword's Hotel", in 1856.<ref name=Torontoist2008-11-01/> In 1860 the hotel was r

** Sword Fighting * Sword swallowing

...on human muscle power, which may be applied as a single movement (e.g., a sword thrust) or after the accumulation of energy (e.g., an arrow released by dra

...als wear three stars, while the Commonwealth uses a crown, crossed baton & sword and two stars.

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...Before he was affected by the venom, however, he cut Laertes with his own sword. In Laertes' last moments of life, he revealed the plot to kill Hamlet. As

...]], who is the son of Evander. He gloats over the killing and puts Pallas' sword-belt on. When news of the death of Pallas reaches Aeneas, Aeneas bursts wit ...to his people for a proper burial. But when Aeneas sees Turnus wearing the sword-belt of Aeneas' deceased friend prince [[Pallas (Aeneid)|Pallas]], his ange

...hting with bladed [[weapon]]s. Weapons typically used in fencing include [[sword]]s, [[dagger]]s and [[knives|knife]], although other weapons and armor are ...with pistol grip, as it is used in modern day fencing.}} The [[foil]] is a sword intended for thrusting. Foil fencing requires that a hit to be on the torso

{{r|Sword Beach}}

# [[Kenjutsu]] (Sword Fighting) # [[Batto-Jutsu]] (Specialized Sword techniques)

...iding in a palanquin, chiefs hold a fly-whisk in one hand and a ceremonial sword in the other. The fly-whisk is made of animal hair. ;Sword

| title = One sword at least : G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936

*''The Sword of the Lictor'' (nominated for the 1983 [[Hugo Award]] and the 1982 [[Nebul *ISBN 0-312-89018-4 &mdash; Volume 2, ''Sword & Citadel''

* ''American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword'' (1996).

When snow overwhelms, and smoke rises up like the hilt of a sword

...of gaming can cover everything from "Murder Mystery Weekends", to "rubber sword" battles, to real weapon use by such organisations as the [[Society for Cre

* ''Better a Shield Than a Sword'', Edward Teller, Free Press/MacMillan, New York, NY, 1987.

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...sub-genre can cover everything from "Murder Mystery Weekends", to "rubber sword" battles, to real weapon use by the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]].

[[Bronze Age]]; [[sword]] unearthed at the Castle dates from this time Bronze Age sword unearthed from the site; this can be seen in the Castle's exhibition

...]. During that engagement, Lenoir's horse was shot from under him, and his sword was broken during hand-to-hand fighting, but he emerged unscathed. Followin

* Kirk, Russell. ''The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict''. (1995) Ki

...geus learn that Aethra was pregnant with his child, he decided to hide a [[sword]] and a pair of [[sandal]]s underneath a rock. Secretly, he instructed Aeth ...er and took him where the rock was, which he easily lifted, recovering the sword and the sandals. It was now time for him to travel to Athens, a journey Aeg

* 1914: Poetry in ''Sword Blades and Poppy Seed'' began to include experiments with "unrhymed cadence I should see the sun flashing from his sword hilt and the buckles

:Kledyuawr glas glan (A sword, blue and bright)

* Kohn, Richard H. ''Eagle and Sword: The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America,

...ord whose handle consists of two twined serpents, was adopted in 1928. The sword expressed the crusading spirit of the cancer control movement, and the serp

*Magic Sword: May 1965, at sea near [[Baker Island]], part of Project Shipboard Hazar

* [[Sword Beach]] (including [[Pegasus Bridge]]): British

:*[[Kenjutsu (Sword Fighting)]]

...ho famously seeks the Holy Grail. Famous stories in the legend include the Sword in the Stone, Camelot, the Lady of the Lake, Excalibur, and Avalon.

...ens their commandments. And this one caused (nations) to destroy Israel by sword, and to scatter their remnant, and to humiliate them, and to exchange the T

...and one of them, Lieutenant Colonel Saburo Aizawa, killed Nagata, using a sword, in his office, in August 1935. Araki and Mazaki, even though no longer in

Fafhrd, on the other hand, has broken his sword (injuring himself in the process, apparently) and joined the cult of [[Isse ...ayhem, as usual (Fafhrd finding he has to fight a giant squid armed with a sword in each tentacle), and the sunken world begins to collapse around them. The

# ''kirpan'', a dagger-like sword tucked into a ''gatra'' strap or a ''kamar kasa'' waistband;

...Font later described the scene: "''...Rivera entered the chapel with drawn sword [in hand]...con la espada desnuda en la mano''." <ref>Engelhardt 1920, p. 7

...t speed (of course, one could say that the Japanese developed this type of sword to match their fighting style. But, this debate is beyond the scope of this ...udes a lot of weapons work. Saito has developed a series of bokken (wooden sword) and jo (spear) kata (techniques) to help in the practice of Aikido.

:Without firing a gun, without drawing a sword, should they make war on us, we could bring the whole world to our feet...

* Tunnell, Ted. ''Edge of the Sword: The Ordeal of Carpetbagger Marshall H. Twitchell in the Civil War and Reco

One of the Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann was Nuadu's sword, which no-one escaped once it was drawn from its sheath.<ref>''The Second B

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| title = The Sharpest Sword: Compellence, Clausewitz and Counterinsurgency