He thought on all his glorious hopes, and all his young renown; He flung the falchionfrom his side, and in the dust sat down.
His brow was sad his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior!
Something had evidently happened to the spectre, for the light had entirely faded from its hollow eyes, the gleaming falchion had fallen from its hand, and it was leaning up against the wall in a strained and uncomfortable attitude.
The falchion is a weapon of very remote antiquity.
Full through his neck the weighty falchion sped, Along the pavement roll'd the mutt'ring head.
Full through his neck the weighty falchion sped, Along the pavement rolled the culprit's head.
No; 'twas she, the maid, Herself before me beaming, With casque arrayed and falchion blade Beneath her girdle gleaming!
Lance in rest and falchion bare Must answer for Miolan's son.
Struck at the sight I melt with filial woe, And down my cheek the pious sorrows flow, Yet as I shook my falchion o'er the blood, Regardless of her son the parent stood.
Thus speaking, from the ground the sword he took Which Agelaus' dying hand forsook: Full through his neck the weighty falchion sped; Along the pavement roll'd the muttering head.
Now swift I waved myfalchion o'er the blood; Back started the pale throngs, and trembling stood, Round the black trench the gore untasted flows, Till awful from the shades Tiresias rose.
I heard incensed, and first resolved to speed My flying falchion at the rebel's head.
Wide o'er the pool thy falchion waved around Shall drive the spectres from unbidden ground: The sacred draught shall all the dead forbear, Till awful from the shades arise the seer.
His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior!
Thus o'er the ocean faint and far Trailed the gleam of his falchion brightly; Is it a God, or is it a star That, entranced, I gaze on nightly!
A horse and falchion I from my stores will give thee, and also with a ring reward thee, if thou the Æsir wilt not requite with malice.
I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion I would have made them skip.
In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw Thy murd'rous falchion smoking in his blood; The which thou once didst bend against her breast, But that thy brothers beat aside the point.
But I will not fall inglorious," So saying he drew his falchion from his side and rushed at once to combat.
Instead of blunting the edge of her falchion she whets the steel, and would fain infuse into it her own acerbity.
Where the bold front that in the breach of wrong Stemm'd the fierce current of insidious foes, Flashing Truth's falchion in the van of Time?
I saw no immediate way but to go to Mrs. Falchionand make a bold bid for his peace.
Roscoe was about to begin, when Mrs. Falchion said, "Wait a minute.
His verdict, and his only verdict, upon Mrs. Falchion had been confided to Blackburn, who in turn confided it to Clovelly, who passed it on to me.
Mrs. Falchion subscribed most liberally to the fund raised for the children of the quartermaster and munificently to that for the crew which had, under Hungerford, performed the rescue work.
It was an official matter, to which Mrs. Falchion apparently did not listen.
I cannot love Mercy Falchion again, and that, I suppose, is the last thing she would wish now.
When it seemed that Mrs. Falchion would bring a great trouble and shame into Roscoe's life, I determined to use the secret.
I stood between Mrs. Falchion and Ruth Devlin, and Roscoe beside Justine Caron.
And, as Mrs. Falchion suggested, I'll 'turn the crank.
He could not get at Amshar without thrusting Mrs. Falchion aside, and, as I said, the wall was narrow.
After greetings, she said that Mrs. Falchion might see me, but that they were very busy; they were leaving in the evening for the coast.
Then Mrs. Falchion thrust a red-hot iron into the powder, and an explosion ensued.
Then huzza, then huzza, Truth's glittering falchionfor freedom we draw.
But the huge falchion with its sheath and belt-- Achilles them on Diomede bestow'd.
So doubted he, and undecided yet Stood drawing forth his falchion huge; when lo!
Many a black-hilted falchion huge of haft Fell to the ground, some from the grasp, and some From shoulders of embattled warriors hewn, And pools of blood soak'd all the sable glebe.
Bothwell and Soulis grappled together, the falchion of Ruthven gleamed amidst a hundred swords, and blood flowed around.
He seized Edwin; and while his falchion flashed terrible threatenings in their eyes, with a backward step he fought his passage to one of the wooden towers he had fastened to the wall.
Ere the queen came, a son sprang forth from the flames: he was clad in full armour, and carried a falchion and bow, and a diadem gleamed brightly upon his head.
In his right hand he carried a great many-coloured bow; his gleaming falchion was on his thigh.
Won by my proofs, hisfalchion bright This eve anew shall dub me knight.
Then at the altar Wilton kneels, And Clare the spurs bound on his heels; And think what next he must have felt At buckling of the falchion belt!
Thy falchion flew out of thy fist, so fast thou thee hied; Thou durst not blush once back, for better or worse, look.
The sorcerer brought forth a falchion of that wondrous metal that could carve syenite granite and bite into porphyry; also, a pair of horse-hide sandals and a flat water-bottle.
Over this he slung the water-bottle, which the priest had filled in the meantime, fixed the falchion at his side and put on the horse-hide sandals.
The Egyptian falchion was nothing more than a sword-shaped ax.
Plunging his falchionin the sand to hide its stain, he went back to the fallen soldier.
The Nubian, standing over him, swung his heavy weapon aloft, but Kenkenes thrust his falchion over the fallen man and caught the blow, as it descended, upon the broad back of the blade.
With a furious exclamation, Kenkenes slackened his pace only long enough to undo the falchion at his side and rushed to the fight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "falchion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
