The two cavalrymen thrust their sabresinto the scabbards with a clank, and made as though to follow.
The same sabres leapt from their scabbards and fell stiffly against their owners' shoulders, instinctively.
I warn you that I have no fear of the sabres back of you.
Imagine yourself on the line, with the enemy thundering toward you, sabres flashing in the sunlight, and lead singing about your ears.
Before us the major--the western wood, and the flashing sabres of a band of hostile cavalry.
Sabres slashed at me, and in my rage I determined to exterminate something.
Instantly sabres and swords waved over him; and he clung in a supplicating posture to Octai, one of the captains of his guard; but Octai repulsed him with contempt.
THE Saracen chiefs, after having dyed their sabresin the blood of the sultan, did not confine their menaces and violent demonstrations to the tent in which the captive King of France was lodged.
Scarcely had the Mameluke aspirant for knighthood disappeared when the tent was crowded with Saracens, who brandished their sabresand threatened Louis with destruction.
Flint dashed forward at the head of his squadron, their sabres flashing in the rays of the morning sun, I felt like my final hour had come.
I only made the men draw their sabres to prevent them from wasting their fire before they got to closer quarters.
My men had returned their sabresto their scabbards, and the death-dealing revolver was now doing its work.
At that time the sabre was more in use than it was later, and it seemed to me that I could never again shut my ears to the sound of the grindstone, when I found that the sabres were being sharpened.
Between French, English, and Sardinians, we could have sent a force of at least 5,500 sabres to the north side of the Alma, which certainly would have had nothing to fear from any Russian cavalry in the Crimea.
On the 17th, the 10th Hussars arrived, and five hundred sabres were added to the strength of our cavalry.
The dragoons rush with sheathed sabres on the mass!
They stabbed each other mercilessly, disdaining to use their firearms, and preferring, as a speedier resource, the sharp points of their sabres and bayonets.
At the same time hats were thrown up and sabres whirled joyously, while from all sides brown woollen caps hoisted on long poles were waving in the air.
The great wheels jolted in the ruts, the chains of the harness rattled as they were shaken by the early morning wind, the sabres shone; the sun was rising, and at a bend of the road all vanished from the sight.
Now all was ended; all the blood was stanched and the sabres dried, the dead were dead, peacefully slumbering.
The enemy advanced a brigade of cavalry upon us, and they were met by the First New Jersey, First Pennsylvania, First Rhode Island, and Second New York Cavalry Regiments, with sabres drawn.
Such a horrible din it was, amid the clashing of sabres and continuous roll of the small-arms and the curses and demands to surrender.
They were represented leaning on their sabres with a gun-carriage behind each of them, and in formidable attitudes in contrast with the occasion.
But she was a little frightened at the sight of Caussidière's men with their sabres and scarfs.
At last they return to place, salute their Colonel, clang their sabres back into the scabbards, and are dismissed, and Training Day is over.
The troop is again in line, with sabres drawn to receive its Colonel.
Many a cold-blooded murder was committed, many a brave Englishman fell beneath the heavy whirling sabres of Circassian Cossacks, the bayonets of French infantry, or the deadly hail of machine guns.
The cavalry flung their sabres into the river, the cuirassiers threw away revolvers and helmets.
Their officers bellowed orders and shook their sabres in the very teeth of the rifle blast; the cavalry capered and galloped, and flew from thicket to thicket.
The next moment they were at it like tigers; their sabres flashed above their heads, the sabres of the seconds hovering around the outer edge of the circle of glimmering steel like snakes coiling to spring.
The officers of the 74th of the Line threw their sabres and even their decorations into the Meuse.
Not that she cared for sabres and red trousers, but nothing that concerned her husband was indifferent to her.
At the same moment the surgeon stepped forward with a gesture, the two seconds placed themselves; somebody muttered a formula in a gross bass voice and the swordsmen raised their heavy sabres and saluted.
The sabresare drawn, The warriors are in their ranks, The horse is about to become more precious than a wife.
Her throat resembles the peach Which is seen ripening on the tree; Her shoulders are like polished ivory, And her rounded ribs Are the haughty sabres Drawn by the Djouad[82] When weary of using their fire-arms.
They had defended themselves bravely with sabres and knives, but the robber band had had firearms, and Ugyu had been struck by a bullet, which had passed through his shoulder-blade and lung, and had come out at his breast.
Their guns, with the military pennants on the forks, they had slung over their shoulders, and their sabres stuck out horizontally from their girdles in silver-bound scabbards decorated with three pieces of imitation coral.
I was amazed beyond measure at that rush, knowing his sabres to be slightly outnumbered by mine.
If it remains stationary and mounted and the enemy charges, one charging sabre will kill five stationary sabres and put fifteen others three feet to the rear.
At the end of five minutes the clash of sabres made my heart almost cease to beat; the blood seemed no longer to flow through my veins.
I never knew how we escaped; we ran at random through the smoke, and dashed through the midst of sabres and flying bullets.
But all the time the sabres were flashing fiercely in the sunlight, and Jack and his friend were using their bayonets to advantage.
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