This is the feat they perform with their swords: they throw them high up, and they throw the scabbards after them, and the swords, before reaching the ground, place themselves in the scabbards.
Then they throw the scabbards first, and the swords after them, and the scabbards meet the swords and place themselves round them before they reach the ground.
The scabbards of the leaf-shaped swords were made of wood or leather, protected by a ferule or chape of bronze, which was fastened to it by rivets; the point of the weapon does not seem to have reached the end of the sheath.
Their tunics were left unbuttoned, their scabbards and helmets stained with dirt, and their harness badly fastened, so that they might look the part of deserters, without order or discipline.
We were too young to understand all that, however, so we waxed our moustaches and clicked our spurs and let the ferrules of our scabbards wear out by trailing them along the pavement in the hope that we should all become Lasalles.
They havescabbards covered with white calico, which are not always used, and there are no straps to attach the sword to the person.
Sheets of lead poured into them; the rattle of empty scabbards on stirrups, the metallic ringing of bullets on helmet and cuirass, the rifle-shots, the roar of the shells exploding swelled into a very hell of sound.
That they were standing with swords drawn when she had left the room and that when she returned the swords were sleeping in their scabbards and they were kissing to make friends--how much was there to be reasoned from that?
They are sheathed in their scabbards of velvet politesse, but just as easy of drawing, just as light to flash out and tingle in the air as ever were the dainty little Toledo blades of some odd two hundred years ago.
Let not thy scimitars return unto their scabbards until all have fallen!
A score of hearts swelled with righteous pride and as many scabbards rattled as heels clicked and hands went up in salute.
Some were shouting, some running silently, with their elbows at their sides and their scabbards leaping against their calves.
Officers in shining corslets, or with boots and scabbards dulled with dust, arrived and clattered in through the gates.
My friend thrust his sword and dirk into his girdle, not in the horizontal Japanese fashion, but vertically, as I wore mine, that the scabbards might not show beneath our outer robes.
I drew them from my girdle with their scabbards and handed them to the old gate captain.
Some scabbards even appear of fantastic forms, as though the man of the Bronze Age, like his successor of the Iron Period, was not averse to the occasional outshining of his fellow-man.
Upon these swords and their scabbards a wealth of decoration was lavished by the Greeks.
They were so deficient in belts and bayonet scabbardsthat they always went with bayonets "fixed," and had thus gained for themselves the nickname of "The Forlorn Hope.
In fact, the curved scabbards slipped over the hard snow as if it had been ice.
He makes no mark on the snow, so it will be smooth and slippy--and the curved scabbards will be like runners.
Roy had brought down the sledge, and using the swords and their scabbards as supports, had made a lean-to tent against a warm rock out of the strip of shawl.
No doubt, he thought, because of the children's light weight, and because the platform between the swords and scabbards which supported them was so large; many times larger than his own feet!
They wear rings and silver scabbards to their krises, but gold and swasa they dislike.
Dick can wield a sword if he's forced to it, andscabbards will need to be empty in a while.
When you raise your hand we will all drum with our heels together and rattle our scabbards together, and frighten the Queen.
It is a common custom in India, when real work has to be done, to throw aside the steel scabbards and replace them with wooden ones, which have the double advantage of being noiseless and a preservative to the edge of the sword.
A million of swords would leap from their scabbards to assert it, and the Union itself would be shivered like a Prince Rupert's dress in the shock.
Even Mr. Winthrop is opposed to that, and thinks "a million swords would leap from their scabbards to oppose it.
Ilka stood for a moment gazing out upon the surging mass of humanity at her feet; she heard the clanking of the scabbardsand swords, and saw the white and the blue uniforms commingled in friendly confusion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scabbards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
