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Example sentences for "scimetar"

Lexicographically close words:
scientifiques; scientist; scientists; sciis; scilicet; scimitar; scimitars; scimiter; scimus; scintilla
  1. I swear by Wind and Scimetar that I will speak nothing but truth of the Scythian friendships.

  2. Having rescued his friends from their danger, he rallied the rest of the troops; and charging upon Adyrmachus brought down the scimetar on his neck, and cleft him in two as far as the waist.

  3. When we swear by Wind and Scimetar, we do so because Wind is the cause of life and Scimetar of death.

  4. Turkish leader shouted, and his trusty comrade sprung, And his scimetar like lightning o'er the Yankee captain swung.

  5. Wherever lights appeared the flashing scimetar was at its deadly work, and all who attempted resistance fell beneath its edge.

  6. Had not he decreed the fall of Granada, this arm and this scimetar would have maintained it.

  7. Boabdil's mother, the sultana Ayxa la Horra, armed him for the field, and gave him her benediction as she girded his scimetar to his side.

  8. He grasped the hilt of his scimetar and gnashed his teeth in fury.

  9. He wore a steel casque exquisitely chiselled and embossed; his scimetar and dagger of Damascus were of highest temper; he had a round buckler at his shoulder and bore a ponderous lance.

  10. His visor was closed; he bore a huge buckler and a ponderous lance; his scimetar was of a Damascus blade, and his richly ornamented dagger was wrought by an artificer of Fez.

  11. He accordingly sent his grand vizier, Yusef Aben Comixa, to King Ferdinand to make known his intention, bearing him, at the same time, a present of a magnificent scimetar and two Arabian steeds superbly caparisoned.

  12. He refused to take another spear, but drew forth his scimetar and led the way (adds Agapida) in an arrogant and haughty style, as though he would set both Heaven and earth at defiance.

  13. We read of a white silk mantle embroidered with gold lace; of buttons of precious stones; of a girdle, in which was carried a scimetar rich in gold and rubies; and of his wife and children being in similar state.

  14. Few of them died of natural death, and the Turkish scimetar was perhaps frequently employed with justice amongst them.

  15. The renegado ran up, and putting his foot upon his sword, and the point of his scimetar to his throat, called upon him to ask his life; but Pelistes lay without sense, and as one dead.

  16. The unfortunate Solyman fell beneath the scimetar of the executioner.


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