His doublet was torn and his shoulder bleeding, whilst his empty scabbard hung like a lambent tail behind him.
As he was retiring, a heavy step sounded on the stair, accompanied by the clank of a scabbard against the baluster.
He thrust it back reverently into its scabbard and laid it down, and then completed his toilet.
When you look upon it, when your children gather about your knee and marvel at its quaintness, mark the rudeness of the hilt in contrast to its jewelled scabbard and brilliant blade, tell them of me, who shall never see them.
The leather scabbard was richly and artistically mounted in silver, but the hilt was a rough piece of unpolished, hammered iron.
Up first in the morning, he replaced the gun in its scabbardbefore the others opened their eyes, and it was not until the hunters had ridden out of sight into the southwest that he entirely relaxed his vigilance.
Towne's gun chocked back in the scabbard as its owner stumbled blindly over a chair and went down, never to rise.
If any one asked you to extract a saw from a scabbard exactly moulded upon the steel, and to conduct the operation without the slightest degree of tearing or scratching, you would laugh at the flagrant impossibility of the task.
The shank of the larva has the same structure, so that the object to be extracted is enclosed in a scabbard as awkwardly shaped as itself.
The scabbard was riven asunder at the lower end, and shreds of flesh hung out between the rents.
My scabbard was polished like silver, the steel front of my shako shone like a mirror, and the tinsel lace of my jacket had undergone a process of scrubbing and cleaning that threatened its very existence.
Joan keeping her sword in itsscabbard and merely waving her banner; "heaven protects us!
But he had read that the army is a jealous mistress who brooks no rival, that "red lips tarnish the scabbard steel," that "he travels the fastest who travels alone.
And with him, both on foot, he brought a young Knight, in red arms, without a sword or shield, save a scabbardhanging by his side.
His future squire rode before him, bareheaded, carrying his sword by the point of the scabbard with his spurs hanging from the hilt.
Much more he told the king of the strange events that would come to pass in the future time; and further he said,-- "Look well to the scabbard of Excalibur.
There you lack wisdom," said Merlin, "for the scabbard is worth ten of the sword.
She made, by enchantment, another scabbard like the one given her in trust, and gave the scabbardof Excalibur to her love.
As they rode forward a damsel came to Arthur, bringing him a sword like unto Excalibur, with a scabbard that seemed in every point the same.
Reaching boldly out, Arthur grasped the weapon by the handle, and at once the arm and hand disappeared beneath the water, leaving the wondrous blade in his hand, and the scabbard with it.
Thus admonished, Arthur, in loving trust, took the scabbard to Morgan le Fay, his sister, and gave it into her care to keep for him.
This knight was, unknown to Arthur, a lover of Morgan le Fay, being he for whose sake she had counterfeited the magic scabbard of the sword Excalibur.
Then, seeing the scabbard hanging by Accolan's side, he sprang suddenly forward and wrenched it from him, flinging it across the field as far as he could throw it.
While you wear that scabbard you shall never lose blood, however sorely you be wounded, so take good heed to keep it always with you.
In his heart, too, he felt that this might be the combat of which Morgan had warned him, and with the aid of Arthur's sword and scabbard he could not fail to win.
A day or two after King Arthur had placed the magical scabbard in the hands of his evil-thinking sister, he grew unwell, and had his tent pitched in a meadow near Camelot for the benefit of the fresh air and the green verdure.
Yonder sword with goat-skin scabbard brave Nakula wields in war, In the cowhide Sahadeva keeps his shining scimitar!
Next this scimitar so curious by the skilled nishadas made, Scabbard made of wondrous cowhide sheathes the bright and polished blade!
Who doth own this wondrous sabre, shape of toad is on the hilt, On the blade a toad is graven, and the scabbard nobly gilt?
I always move the sling strap as near the mouth of the scabbard as it will go.
The other sling strap I detach from the scabbard and hang loopwise from the back latigo-ring.
The advantage is that I can remove rifle and scabbard without unbuckling any straps.
So saying, lightly he drew the sword from the heart of the stone, and lightly he slid it into the scabbard at his side.
The rifle was sheathed in a saddle scabbard and Hank took it, looked from it to his own, weighing them both.
He pressed it, and the upper and lower parts of the cross came asunder; and holding the top like a handle, I drew out as from a scabbard a sharp steel blade, concealed in the thickness of the wood, behind the very body of the agonising Christ.
This can be made of tin or wood, the scabbard of card-board or leather, and painted red.
To this end the saber-belt would be put on wrong side up so that the scabbard would hang on the right side--that would bring it on the left side, where it belonged in the picture.
These smaller straps are to hold your saber scabbard to the waist-belt, and this strap goes over the shoulder to keep your belt from slipping down around your heels.
Strange to say, the jewelled sheath of the King's Toledo blade fitted the weapon from Fierbois, and he supplemented the priests' gift of a scabbard by this second rich one.
The brown walnut stock of a heavy pistol shone above either holster, and a cavalry sword in a leathernscabbard hung within easy reach of hand.
At first sight you would not have thought that he was different from a thousand other little boys; but then you noticed that by his side hung the scabbard of a sword, and as the boy grew bigger the scabbard grew bigger too.
The sword which belonged to the scabbard was found by the little boy sticking out of the ground in the garden, and every day he pulled it up to see if it would go into the scabbard.
Why, the jewels in the scabbard are more splendid than the big ruby in his crown!
So quickly making up his mind, he sped down into the garden, where he carefully hid it, scabbard and all, under a thick tangle of vines and shrubbery which grew in a secluded corner where the inn people seldom went.
Geoffrey then hastened to make his way back to the window, though he found the sword in its heavyscabbard rather an awkward burden for a little boy, and it became still more awkward as he prepared to climb between the bars.
So each thrust his sword back into the scabbard and entered the pantry.
Utterly exhausted, he took off his armour and laid it and his sword-belt and empty scabbard aside.
She followed him to the door, and he turned and kissed her again, and then hurried away, depressing his sword-hilt to keep the steel end of the scabbard from clinking on the pavement.
Now Arthur had long since lost the scabbard of his sword, Excalibur, so it was possible to wound or slay him in battle, although he that stood up against the stroke of that sword must also be slain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scabbard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: case; compact; file
