He became a Knight Templar inRapier Commandery and was one of its past eminent commanders.
There were also in attendance fifty Knights Templars of Rapier Commandery, under the leadership of Eminent Commander E.
Nay, I found him laid by with a rapier thrust in the side from a duel, for no better cause than biting his thumb at a Scots law student in chapel, his apology being that to sit through a Dutch sermon drove him crazy.
His own rapier was rusty now from want of use; but, please the pigs, he would start afresh next week in the metropolis, and resume his crown and sceptre as King of Cherokees.
Fling another shot at that carriage, you sneaking pigskin cobbler, and by the Lord I’ll send my rapier through you!
The Spaniard's dagger flashes, and the rapier is turned aside; Cary springs six feet back as the Spaniard rushes on him in turn.
Cary and the Spaniard stand for a moment quite upright, their sword-arms stretched straight before them, holding the long rapier horizontally, the left hand clutching the dagger close to their breasts.
Grenville answered by slapping his own rapierhome into the sheath with a quiet smile.
The deep eyes that met his steadily had in them the rapier flash.
They might have been compared to a rapier and a two-handed broadsword.
With this lighter weapon they devised in course of time that brilliant cunning play known as rapier fence.
During the Parliamentary period the rapier and its attendant dagger had practically disappeared; they were not true warlike weapons, their chief virtue was for duelling or sudden encounters.
The rapier in its heyday was an admirable weapon to look at, a delicious one to wield.
If it be once gone, this poking fight with rapierand dagger will come up.
It was accordingly left to the body attendant; and the gallant took kindly to the fine rapier of Milanese or Toledan make.
The rapier was decidedly a foreigner; yet it suited the Elizabethan age, for it was decorative as well as practical.
Printed by John Wolfe, 1595) are expounded in a most typical manner the principles of rapier play.
The new art of fence, as systematized by the principles of rapier play, was on the whole already accepted in England during the last decade of the 16th century, and was, as we know, destined to endure.
In a moment Prince Charles's rapier was shining in the sunlight, and he fell on guard in the most elegant attitude, his left hand gracefully raised and curved.
It was with the Revolution that the rapier went out, and the savate came in.
We went down by the church of St.-Germain, and had scarcely crossed swords when the point of his rapier pricked me here, just between the eyes.
He whipped his long rapier from its sheath, and was making for the intruder when Cocardasse flung his strong arms around the hunchback and restrained him.
But if in almost every particular he was the opposite to his friend, in one particular, however, he resembled him, for a long rapier hung from his side and slapped against his lean calves.
On the other side, with a great gap of space between the two parties, stood Gonzague and his cluster of light friends, every man of whom had bared his rapier and was ready to obey the summons of his chief.
Holding his long rapier behind his back with both his hands, he advanced into the middle of the room, where he proceeded to harangue his fellow-guardsmen.
That was not Jean who stood in the centre of the room holding a rapier in his hand, it was Paul Valmain.
With graceful dignity he took his station on the sand, And like a second Mars he seized his rapier in his hand; With courage strong he eyed the bull, who pawed the ground till high The dust of the arena was mingled with the sky.
Each rapier true was black in hue and sheathed in silver ore; At once the people knew the knight from his audacious mien-- Gazul the brave was recognized as soon as he was seen!
Hope was the augury of his love; hope's livery he wore; Yet at his side each squire of his a trenchant rapier bore.
But the next moment he was on his feet, his rapier firmly gripped once more, for all that his arm still felt a trifle numbed.
Yet in the briefest of seconds during which his sword had been about its work of death, Fortunio's rapier came at him a second time.
A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
Habited in black, as was his custom, with a velvet mantle on his shoulder, and a longrapier by his side, he came forward with a measured step and assured demeanour.
His arms were rapier and dagger; and his broad-leaved hat, ornamented with a black feather, covered the luxuriant brown locks that fell in long ringlets over his shoulders.
His conical hat was ornamented with a single black ostrich feather; and he carried a long rapier by his side, in the use of which he was singularly skilful; being one of Vincentio Saviolo's best pupils.
Enter Edmund with his Rapier drawne, Glocester, the Duke and Dutchesse.
Mary sir, that yong Leartes in twelue venies At Rapier and Dagger do not get three oddes of you, 25 And on your side the King hath laide, And desires you to be in readinesse.
That's nothing to us," said Balder from the floor, where he was groping for the rapier that had rolled under the wardrobe.
I only wanted to reach down the sugar, and the old rapier fell on my head--a thing that might happen to anybody!
Uttering a scream of bitter rage, she thrust with the sword, but I put up the stroke (thereby taking a gash in the arm) and gripping the rapier by the guards I twisted it from her hold.
The principal distinction between the broadsword and the rapier is, that the latter is formed only for thrusting, while the former is adapted for cutting also.
We very much approve of fencing and single-stick, but we certainly have no wish that every one who learns to use the foil or the single-stick in mimic combat should want to try his rapier or his broadsword in deadly fight.
The rapier had penetrated, just under the right breast, almost to the rib.
It was there he proposed wounding him again, but, this time, the rapier should enter the intercostal space and not be deterred by the rib.
As he spoke, he absently rested the point of his rapier on the ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rapier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blade; foil; sword