One of them made a stroak at me which I guarded off with the hilt of the sword that was left in my hand, but the force with which he struck the blow--and I kept it off--brought us both to the ground.
The prince swore to love and cherish her no less than his own lost mother, Creusa, and wishing him Godspeed he girt on his shoulder the sword of that famous Cretan swordsman, Lycaon, with hilt of wrought gold and scabbard of ivory.
But he let the sun and wind dry them, and walked stoutly on, playing with the golden hilt of his sword and taking very manly strides in his father's sandals.
Prince Theseus; and, like a brave young prince as he was, he put his hand to the hilt of his sword.
The mess rose joyously as he thrust forward the hilt of his sabre in token of fealty for the colonel of the White Hussars to touch, and dropped into a vacant chair amid shouts of: 'Rung ho, Hira Singh!
The touch of the cold sabre-hilt in his palm turned suddenly to the clinging grip of the child upstairs--the child that was his own son--and a dread of loss filled him.
Growing warm, the Amir turned to his nobles all arow and thrust the hilt of his sabre aside with his elbow.
He dropped one hand on his sword-hilt and his eye wandered to Dirkovitch lolling back in his chair.
On the threshold of the room Holden stepped on a naked dagger, that was laid there to avert ill-luck, and it broke at the hilt under his impatient heel.
He held the weapon to her, hilt foremost; she took it mechanically.
And make a hilt and sheath of great richness and beauty.
As I stood but now by the river, I saw floating on its waters a great square stone, and above this stood the hilt of a sword, whose blade was thrust deeply into the stone.
His arms hung limp by his sides, whereas Casanova's hand, ready for any emergency, rested as if by chance upon the hilt of his sword.
Involuntarily he gripped the hilt of the sword he carried beneath the cloak, pressed to his naked body.
And he could see the outline of the knife-hilt that the man's fingers clutched underneath his shirt.
They had him down, held tight on the floor to the huge amusement of the rest, before the man could even protest; and his howls of rage did him no good, for Ismail drove the hilt of a knife between his open jaws to keep them open.
She began to drum with the golden dagger hilt on the table, and to look dangerous, which is not to infer by any means that she looked less lovely.
Their swords are made with a hilt so small that none save a Rajput of the blood could possibly use one; yet there is no race in all warring India, nor any in the world, that bears a finer record for hard fighting and sheer derring-do.
Leaning forward, she held the gold-hilted dagger out to him, hilt first.
He thought of the strange knife, wrapped in a handkerchief under his shirt, with its bronze blade and gold hilt in the shape of a woman dancing.
She began to twist her golden hair round the dagger hilt again.
The hiltmight have been a portrait of her modeled from the life.
Then as if to end the argument for good and all, he drew his sword and held it out toward them, hilt first, telling them again to kill him and have done with it.
Whereupon the Pope created him Count and Governor of the country, the heathen name of which he changed to St. Paul, and gave him as the emblem of his authority a sword in the hilt of which was fixed a thorn of gold.
Only the slight convulsive tightening of the hand upon the sword-hilt betrayed that he had heard, and Frau von Arnim had almost reached his side before he swung round to greet her.
He was white to the lips, and the hand which had fallen involuntarily on his sword-hilt showed every bone of the knuckles, so tense was the grip.
I have broken the hilt of my own sword in order that I may not draw it forth.
With my bladeless sword hilt hanging bracelet-like on my sprained wrist, defenceless, I stood, dizzily, facing my doom.
With thehilt in my quivering hands I saw the blade bite deeply through the carpet and floor above Nayland Smith's skull.
Next, looking dazedly about me, my attention was drawn to a heavy sword which stood hilt upward against the wall within reach of my hand.
What if Robert did prove up to thehilt that the world was in the birth throes of a new social order!
Had she not proved up to the hilt her genius for making foreigners understand her when such was her desire?
Arthur drew from its scabbard the mighty sword, wondering the while at the marvel of its workmanship, for the hilt shone with the light of many twinkling gems--diamond and topaz and emerald, and many another whose names none know.
There floats on the river a mighty stone, as it were a block of red marble, and it is thrust through by a sword, the hilt of which is set thick with precious stones.
For she saw that the King grasped in his hand the hilt of the naked brand, that none might take it without awakening him.
He wears a short sword, the hilt and scabbard of which display the elaborate wealth of ornament affected by the Circassians.
The chief himself, though ostensibly accepting my statement, has his own suspicions to the same purpose, and before dismissing them he shakes his finger menacingly at the sowars and significantly touches the hilt of his sword.
When Durindana on the hilthe scanned, Graved with the quartering that Almontes wore; Which from that wretched man, beside a font, Youthful Orlando reft in Aspramont.
His hilt and pommel in his fist yet held The paynim, which with all his might he scaled At young Rogero; whom he smote so sore, The stripling never was so stunned before.
The blade is of yellowish bronze fixed into a disk-shaped hilt of silver.
On the hilt of a sabre we find a little crouching jackal; and the larger limb of a pair of scissors in the Gizeh Museum is made in the likeness of an Asiatic captive, his arms tied behind his back.
Tharn raised the weapon, hilt between thumb and bent forefinger, and, while still in a sitting position, flung it with all the concentrated strength of his powerful arm point foremost at the on-rushing bulk.
Crouching under the arc of the hurtling body, the Cro-Magnard drove his long knife to the hilt in the white-furred belly.
From his left breast stood the hilt of a stone knife, its blade buried deep.
In kicking a coat aside I discovered a couple of silver crucifixes bound together, and close by were a silver goblet and the hilt of a sword broken short off for the sake of the metal it was of.
At last I managed to pull the coat clear of the hilt of the hanger; the blade was stuck, but after I had tugged a bit it slipped out, and I found it a good piece of steel.
He had a broad belt round his waist, and the hilt of a kind of cutlass peeped from under his cloak.
I girt about me, with a blazing belt, A scimitar o'er which the sweating smiths In far Damascus hammered for long years, Whose hilt and scabbard shot a trembling light From diamonds and rubies.
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