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Example sentences for "drawn sword"

  • When thou wentest forth to hunt, he rushed in on me, drunk and with a drawn sword in his hand, and smiting my eunuch, slew him.

  • And as he rode through a valley, among many wild ways, he saw a knight, with a drawn sword, chasing a lady to slay her.

  • As soon as she had finished the recitation of these verses, I said to her, holding my drawn sword in my hand, This is the language of those faithless women who renounce the ties of affinity, and regard not lawful fellowship!

  • Each carried a drawn sword, a scimitar of formidable size.

  • Use all your strength, father," shouted Catesby, who having planted himself with his drawn sword at an advantageous point, was listening with intense anxiety to the exertions of the assailing party.

  • And as he spoke, he rushed towards the door, but his departure was checked by Bates, who presented himself at the entrance of the passage with a drawn sword in his hand.

  • On one side of each of the prisoners sat an officer with a drawn sword, on the other the clergyman; opposite them were placed two sergeants.

  • The door was opened as silently as possible, and Köller, with a drawn sword in his hand, entered the room, followed by three officers.

  • For some time Brandt refused to answer, but on Sames threatening to break the door down unless it were opened, he at last turned the key and met his opponents, ready dressed and with a drawn sword.

  • At the same time the defenders of the church threw down their barricades and made a sortie, Dame Vizaknai at their head with a drawn sword, and close behind her the priests as standard-bearers with the church's banners.

  • As captain of the guard, Raleigh had to stand at the door with a drawn sword, in his brown and orange uniform, while the handsome youth whispered to the spinster Queen of fifty-four things which set her heart beating.

  • Shakespeare makes him hand her his drawn sword, to pierce him to the heart if she will; he is sure enough that she will do nothing of the sort.

  • He goes around with a drawn sword, and on trying its edge against his nails he once or twice cuts himself with it.

  • The ass seeing the angel standing in the way, with a drawn sword, turned herself out of the way, and went into the field.

  • And David lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand, turned against Jerusalem: and both he and the ancients clothed in haircloth, fell down flat on the ground.

  • Forthwith the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel standing in the way with a drawn sword, and he worshipped him falling flat on the ground.

  • Kucsuk Pasha, with a drawn sword in his hand, trotted straight up to the gun and stood face to face with its muzzle.

  • Then, seizing a drawn sword, the Mufti raised it aloft and said: "Having wiped away the writing which cast dishonour on the name of Allah, I now cut this document in four pieces with the point of my sword.

  • And indeed the chief cavasse trotted by his side with a drawn sword in his hand; the rest were a horse's head behind them.

  • While Goodere stood at the entrance of the cabin guarding it with a drawn sword, his two assistants entered it, and approached their victim.

  • Walgan immediately took fire at this, and ran upon him with his drawn sword, wherewith he cut off his head, and then retreated speedily with his companions to their horses.

  • Ali Pasha galloped furiously up and down the bastions, stimulating and threatening the gunners with a drawn sword in his hand.

  • Kara Makan, in savage defiance, approached the false prince with a drawn sword in his hand.

  • There he stood in the full regalia of the padishahs, holding in one hand the banner of the Prophet and in the other a drawn sword.

  • I was considerably startled, and not a little angry; but concealing these feelings, stepped boldly into the room, keeping my drawn sword still in my hand.

  • Stepping out softly into the street, and holding my drawn sword in my hand, I hurried towards my abode.

  • We remained for a half minute staring at each other, and then Baglioni spoke again, with his deep sneering accent, "Is it usual for the Cavaliere di Savelli to pay visits with a drawn sword in his hand?

  • Rial, the queen crowned standing in a ship, in her right hand a drawn sword, in her left a shield of arms; in front, a rose.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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