The glaive (naginata, long sword) was a scimitar-like blade, some 3 ft.
So then he put his hand to his side, and did not draw a glaive and cut off my dull head, but gave me a gold medal, and there it is.
Poor soul, a drew glaive on those twain that day, but Jorian Ketel and I we mastered him, and he drove them forth his house for ever.
Then King Mark lifted the glaive on high and he struck; and Sir Tristram sank without a sound.
And when he had come there he perceived a great glaive upon a pole two ells long.
Irish maiden sits not at the banquet with the glaive in the girdle of the warrior; for the cup engenders ire as well as mirth, and blood may flow as well as wine.
But the prisons continued to reek,--the glaive to fall; and Robespierre perceived not that his mobs were glutted to satiety with death, and the strongest excitement a chief could give would be a return from devils into men.
The Glaive is also a broad-bladed weapon, but where the bill and gisarme are more or less straight towards the edge, the glaive curves backwards.
In French writings the wordglaive is sometimes loosely used for lance or sword.
So then he put his hand to his side and did not draw a glaive and cut off my dull head, but gave me a gold medal, and there it is.
Red was his weed and his glaive was white, And there stood Gregory the Wright.
They stood by the door with glaive and spear; 'Hildebrand rise and hasten here!
Grettir hewed back at him with his short-sword, and smote the handle of the glaive and broke it.
When he saw Grettir he roared and jumped up, and caught a glaive that was near him, and smote at the newcomer.
Once he threw her on the ground, but the second time she threw him, and drew her glaive to pierce his breast.
Lo, yonder where I stood The shards of a glaive of battle that was once the best of the good: Take them and keep them surely.
And he drew a glaive from his side and smote the smitten and slain, And tore the heart from Fafnir, while the eagles cried o'erhead.
So there anigh the high-bower door They stood with spear and glaive "Rise up, rise up, Young Hafbur, Out here we would thee have!
But the day when the glaive of the law strikes the last of the Kings will not be a day of joy for the Republic.
The sword, according as it is used, may be the dagger of the assassin or the glaive of the citizen wielded in defense of his country.
It was the glaive with which Brutus opposed the Roman aristocracy, and smote Caesar.
When he marked the falling glaive he deemed that his day had come, for he was a naked man, clad in nought but his shirt and hosen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glaive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
