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Example sentences for "cimeter"

Lexicographically close words:
ciliated; ciliates; cilius; cime; cimes; cimeters; cina; cinamon; cinc; cinch
  1. There is, to this day, preserved a cimeter of Grecian workmanship, which tradition says was the sword of André.

  2. In the thickest of the fight appeared the gigantic form of the circumcised Albanian, his gaudy armor flashing with jewels,[17] his right arm bared to the shoulder, his cimeter glancing as the lightning.

  3. Only as every one knows it, for in recent years he has written it with his cimeter flashing through battle dust as the lightning through clouds," replied the young officer.

  4. You are to obey, not to suppose," cried the demented man, slashing at him with the cimeter that lay at his feet.

  5. A gleam of light circled above the man; a hissing sound of the cimeter and a thud were heard.

  6. Few could wield the Babylonish cimeter that danced in the chieftain’s hand.

  7. He knew the son of Gobryas, and that disobedience would have brought Mardonius’s cimeter upon his own helmet.

  8. A crooked cimeter suspended from his belt was his only weapon.

  9. Every man in Segna, whether young or old, all who could wield a cimeter or clutch a knife, hastily armed themselves, and crowded into the fleet of long light skiffs in which they were wont to make their predatory excursions.

  10. With all my heart," replied I, and took the cimeter in my hand.

  11. Then taking the merchant by the arm, he threw him with his face on the ground, and lifted up his cimeter to cut off his head.

  12. After this, he went and lay down in the black's bed, placed his cimeter under the covering, and waited to complete his design.

  13. The genie, with his cimeter still lifted up, had the patience to hear his unfortunate victims to the end of his lamentations, but would not relent.

  14. At these words the monster took up the cimeter and cut off one of her hands, which left her only so much life as to give me a token with the other that she bade me for ever adieu.

  15. He then rose up, and seizing her by the arm so suddenly, that she had not time to discover him, he with a blow of his cimeter cut her in two, so that one half fell one way and the other another.

  16. Before he had finished, and while he was yet on his knees, he saw a genie, white with age, and of a monstrous bulk, advancing towards him with a cimeter in his hand.

  17. Upon this I stepped back, and threw the cimeter on the ground.

  18. But they had more to fear from the fiery persecution of the papal church than from the cimeter of the infidel, and they refused any coöperation with the emperor so long as the menaces of the Augsburg decrees were suspended over them.

  19. Then, with cimeter and bayonet, they took a bloody revenge.

  20. This excited the alarm of the Protestant nobles of Hungary; and they had reason to dread the intolerance of the Roman Catholics, more than the cimeter of the Turk.

  21. Europe was still trembling before the threatening cimeter of the Turk.

  22. The cimeter of the Turk spared neither mother, maiden nor babe.

  23. Believe it not; circumstantial evidence has caused as much innocent blood to flow, as the cimeter of Jenghiz Khan.

  24. Islam believes that only the cimeter edge of Al Sirat divides Paradise from perdition.

  25. He then drew his cimeter and cut off her head, as she fell at his knees for pardon.

  26. As each one called, the editor drew his cimeter and cut off the contributor's head.

  27. So soon as she entered, he charged her with her guilt; and before the miserable creature could reply, he drew his cimeter and cut off her head.

  28. To this cimeter they offered sacrifices of horses and cattle, the main wealth of the country, and more costly sacrifices than to all the rest of their gods.

  29. With his cimeter in one hand and his buckler in the other, he ascended the outward fortification: of the thirty Janizaries, who were emulous of his valor, eighteen perished in the bold adventure.

  30. But the Greeks had not time to rejoice in the death of their enemies; and the Turkish cimeter was wielded with the same spirit by Amurath the First, the son of Orchan, and the brother of Soliman.

  31. Still he was as brave as he was blundering; and though left-handed, wielded his cimeter to such purpose, that he each time re-established himself upon his throne by dint of hard fighting.

  32. A steel helmet studded with gems rose above his turban; his cuirass was embossed with gold; his cimeter and dagger were of the workmanship of Fez, and flamed with precious stones.

  33. After this he went and lay down in the black's bed, placed his cimeter under the covering, and waited to complete his design.

  34. The dreadful cimeter fell with the hand that held it, and the black, yielding under the violence of the stroke, lost his stirrups, and made the earth shake with the weight of his fall.

  35. The cimeter made a horrible hissing in the air: but, before the black could have time to make a second blow, Codadad struck him on his right arm with such force that he cut it off.

  36. He then rose up, and seizing her by the arm so suddenly that she had not time to discover him, he with a blow of his cimeter cut her in two, so that one half fell one way and the other another.

  37. As soon as he perceived the bed where the Indian lay, he drew his cimeter and deprived him of his wretched life, dragged his corpse into the court of the castle, and threw it into a well.

  38. Back of the throne were four young princes, two bearing each the golden bejewelled kris of the Malay, another the golden sword of state, and the fourth the cimeter of the Prophet.

  39. The sarong and kris are distinctly and solely Malayan; they are shared with no other country; they are to be placed side by side with the green turban of the Moslem pilgrim and the cimeter of the Prophet.

  40. His unsheathed cimeter lay grasped in one hand, and a Turkish pistol seemed to have fallen from the other.

  41. At the feet a sword of the fashion of a cimeter had been laid.

  42. The cimeter is the very one which my ancestor brought back from the Holy Land.

  43. In our family," said Talbot, "there is a cimeter which is an heirloom.

  44. My brother fastened the bag of glass about him, disguised himself like an old woman, and took a cimeter under his gown.

  45. He waited for her; but instead of the lady came in a great black slave with a cimeter in his hand, and looking upon my brother with a terrible aspect, said to him fiercely, "What have you to do here?

  46. In his fury he raised his cimeter and cleft the helmet of the prince in twain.

  47. He held to his cimeter as men instantly slain sometimes keep grip on their weapons; yet his head sunk upon his breast, and he saw nothing more of Mahommed until he stood before him inside the chancel.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cimeter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.