He stood still, drawing me closer, but said nothing more, for there came running out of the darkness an officer with naked claymore shining in the starlight, and when he drew near we saw it was Mr. Duncan.
And with drawn claymore on his shoulder he passed out into the starlight.
Mr. Duncan sent his claymore ringing into the scabbard, wrapped his plaid around his throat, and strolled off towards the new barracks, east of the Hall.
As I looked out the drums came crashing past, and behind them tramped the Highlanders, kilts and sporrans swinging, firelocks aslant and claymore blades shining in the sun.
The dirk and the target lie sordid with dust; The bloodlessclaymore is but reddened with rust; On the hill or the glen if a gun should appear, It is only to war with the heath-cock or deer.
And that claymore shall be ours, Bailie,' said the Chieftain, who saw that Macwheeble looked very blank at this intimation.
His page, as we have said, carried his claymoreand the fowling-piece, which he held in his hand, seemed only designed for sport.
And a whisper awoke on the wilderness, sighing, Like the voice of the heroes who battled in vain, "Not for Tearlach alone the red claymore was plying, But to bring back the old life that comes not again.
The claymore of the Highlanders of Scotland was no other than the cledd mawr (cle'mawr) of the Welch.
The hurly o' the whistling claymore has warmed our hearts; the sight of friends stark from lead and steel and rope has garred them rin like water.
You shall choose Ishbel--you shall choose; and to-morrow I will buy you something better than the claymore brooch that I was cruel enough to throw away!
And this was theclaymore brooch made of Iona pebbles I hef bought for you; and it can go there!
We drove at him together, Dick and I, and so must needs fall afoul of each other clumsily, giving him time to spring back and so to miss the claymore stroke which else would have shorn him to the middle.
But now Richard cut in again and the claymore stroke, less skilfully turned aside, brought him to his knees.
Twas he taught me what little I know of the claymore play; and this stout old blade is his.
That fetches it to us," said Richard, most coolly; drawing his claymore when the Carolinians began to come home like spindrift ahead of the wave of red.
Claymore proper, the Two-hand sword of the Middle Ages.
The modern Claymore is really an adaptation of the Italian Schiavona (Fig.
The dirk and the target lie sordid with dust, The bloodless claymore is but redden'd with rust; On the hill or the glen if a gun should appear, It is only to war with the heath-cock or deer.
Here can no treacherous chief betray For sordid gain our new Strathspey; No fearful king, no statesmen pale, Wrench the strong claymore from the Gael.
A claymore and Lochaber axe, given him by old Invernahyle, mounted guard on a little print of Prince Charlie; and Broughton's Saucer was hooked up against the wall below it.
A claymore and Lochaber axe, given him by old Invernahyle, mounted guard on a little print of Prince Charlie; and Broughton's Saucer was hooked up on the wall below it.
As the storm raged across her the dear Claymore heeled over, and quivered as if she had received a blow, but righting herself immediately, she gallantly faced her foe and prepared for another shock.
The crew's admiration of the behaviour of the Claymore is quite unbounded; they cannot praise her enough.
Mr. Croker in his reply had urged that if the author appealed to the edge of the claymore at Prestonpans, he might refer him to the point of the bayonet at Culloden.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, however, declared that he did not dread "the flashing of that Highland claymore though evoked from its scabbard by the incantations of the mightiest magician of the age.
Still Lord Claymore hoped the contrary, and, perhaps, his anxiety was not a little increased by the satisfaction he anticipated in ousting the rascally old marquis from his estates and rank.
They proved that Lord Claymore was right, and he soon rated them as quarter-masters.
During his absence another person arrived, who was warmly greeted by Lord Claymore and the two lawyers as Mr Cameron, the Sheriff-Substitute for Shetland.
Lord Claymore and Rolf supplied the father with ample funds, and he forthwith started on his journey.
This made Lord Claymore suspect that the line-of-battle ships were not yet completely ready for sea.
He said that he had little doubt but that Lord Claymore would grant a superannuated discharge to the two old men.
They were not long in private, for they were soon joined by Lord Claymore and Rolf Morton; Pedro Alvarez and other inmates of the castle followed.
Claymore begged Morton to go and call the first lieutenant.
Lord Claymoreand his officers and crew were accordingly turned over to another frigate, the "Imperious," and ordered to proceed forthwith to the Mediterranean.
A supply of scaling ladders had been prepared and brought on shore, and Lord Claymore had taken good care that they should be long enough.
Lord Claymore was not a man to do a foolish rash thing.
From these men Lord Claymorelearned that within a day's sail there was a strong and important castle, garrisoned by French troops.
Shrill was the bugle's note, dreadful the warrior shout, Lances and halberts in splinters were borne; Halberd and hauberk then Braved the claymore in vain, Buckler and armlet in shivers were shorn.
Don tripped over his claymore and fell against Sandy, while Sandy's gilt crown went rolling down the hall.
I drew this stout claymore last in the battle of Largs.
Twice did the heavy claymore of Wallace strike fire from the steely helmet of the monarch; but at the third stroke the glittering diadem fell in shivers to the ground; and the royal blood of Edward followed the blow.
And by the ghost of that same Fergus, I swear," exclaimed Murray, "that my honest claymore shall never shroud its head while an invader be left alive in Scotland.
But see, the captain of the Arrandoon clasps hisclaymore double-handed; he uses it hatchet fashion almost.
His action saved us, for the whole of us might have been shot like rats in the ditch if they had attacked Mr. Wood, instead of flying when they saw the tall grenadier claymore in hand.
When the two parties in the ditch met, both in search of a place to get out, Mr. Wood got on the shoulders of another grenadier and somehow scrambled up claymore in hand.
Colin raised his eyes and glanced furtively at the old claymore that was suspended over the door, crossed by a rusty Lochaber axe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "claymore" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
