These are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages (so they call them) that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills and dare scarce come thither.
This morning Don Silvio, accompanied by Don Scipio, came to the house, and after accusing me of being the murderer of both their parents, drew their rapiers to assassinate me.
Our nobility wear commonly swords or rapiers with their daggers, as doth every common serving-man also that followeth his lord and master.
Some desperate cutters we have in like sort, which carry two daggers or two rapiers in a sheath always about them, wherewith in every drunken fray they are known to work much mischief.
Lord Claud handed the rapiers to Tom, coolly resumed his discarded garments, took off his hat with a courtly bow, and walked off with his customary air of easy grace.
Faith, our masters are like a case[81] of rapiers sheathed in one scabbard of folly.
He is the first handsel of the young rapiers of the templers; and they are as proud of his repulse as an Hungarian of killing a Turk.
The visitants are all men without exceptions, but the principal inhabitants and possessors are stale knights and captains[65] out of service; men of long rapiers and breeches, which after all turn merchants here and traffick for news.
Rapiers glittered; the scream of women was heard, the clatter of sabres, uproar and disturbance.
Behind them the Bravi walked in silence, their hands on the hilts of their rapiers and their eyes fixed on the happy pair, each absorbed in his own reflections.
Only their rapiers were unchanged, the same serviceable, business-like weapons that Pignaver had seen before.
And just to think," said Beverley, "what would have been the condition of my heart had we been using rapiersinstead of leather-buttoned foils!
The rapiers sang a strange song above the sleeping girl, a lullaby with coruscations of death in every keen note.
Alice had snatched down one of her rapiers when the guards first entered.
The men wore swords or rapiers as a part of their daily apparel.
Thanks to good Sir Jacob Clancing, once of Snellaby Hall and now of Salisbury Plain, their rapiers did no more than scratch my plate of proof.
If ye have the people on your side, why should ye crave for these bewigged fine gentlemen, whose white hands and delicate rapiers are of as much service as so many ladies' bodkins?
Even the rigid and impassive Puritans were moved to a show of loyalty; while the courtiers, carried away by zeal, drew their rapiers and shouted until the crowd beneath caught the enthusiasm, and the air was full of the cheering.
These popinjays of the Court are ready enough to wave their rapiers and shout when there are four good miles between them and the foe,' said Saxon, as we made our way through the crowd.
Gramercie, Madam; but it is not great: Only a thrust, prickt with a Rapiers point.
Enter Valingford and Mountney at two sundry doors, looking angrily each on other with Rapiers drawn.
Ile broach the Tadpole on my Rapiers point: Nurse giue it me, my sword shall soone dispatch it Aron.
If thou deniest it, twenty times thou lyest, And I will turne thy falshood to thy hart, Where it was forged with my Rapiers point Aum.
We wipe it off to-morrow morning with simple rapiers and daggers.
Rapiers and shirts at three tomorrow morning--Is that the bill of fare?
Montelius places the rapiers in his fourth period dated at the end of the fifteenth to the middle of the twelfth century B.
The rapiers were evolved quite naturally by lengthening the dagger-blade; and this form was probably influenced also, as will be mentioned later, by contemporary weapons in use in the Mediterranean lands.
We find that the long rapiers or thrusting swords are developed from the tanged Cypriote dagger, and that the true sword is a later evolution from the rapier.
The rapiers belong to the middle and later portions of the Bronze Age.
Clara had overheard the violent dispute, and seeing the fencing-master bring the rapiers at dawn, guessed what was to occur.
They agreed on the following morning, according to the academical custom of the place, to fight with sharprapiers behind the garden.
And he took away with him the splendour of our swords and darts, rapiers and car-fences, and shields and ornaments.
And some held maces or iron balls or spears and some, rapiers and crow-bars and axes.
Cut off by Kiritin with his broad-headed arrows, countless arms having swords and lances and rapiersfor their nails or having clubs and battle-axes in grasp, fell down on the earth.
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