As far as I could see there were not more than half-a-dozen other men in the room who had rifles with them, although all had daggers, and some wore curved scimitars with gold-inlaid hilts.
He led me down again to a dining-room hung with spears, shields, scimitars and ancient pistols, but furnished otherwise like an instalment-plan apartment.
In four ranks, fifty mounted men abreast, they drew up at the base of the hill and saluted Manfred, two hundred scimitars flashing in the afternoon sun.
The waves of their cheering swept over him, and their scimitars flashed in the rising sun.
He was driven in and out of courtyards, tossed hither and thither by the human wave, whose crest was the whirling scimitars of the destroyers.
Then, all his cries ceased, and he fell forward in a ghastly heap, while the Turks howled derisively and thrust scimitars into the fire.
And loud was the clash of swords and scimitars upraised and warded off by heroic hands in course of those fierce encounters.
Paulus Jovius in the 16th century says, I know not on what authority, that Kermán was then celebrated for the fine temper of its steel in scimitars and lance-points.
What though the enemy greatly outnumbered them, and had cannons and scimitars against their pikes and flails, had they not God on their side, and should God's army pause to consider numbers and cannon-balls?
He is said to have, in a paroxysm of fury, turned the scimitars of his followers upon the prisoners in his camp, slaughtering thirty thousand of these unfortunates, while bidding his cannoneers to keep up their assault upon the city.
They carry targets blazoned bright with scimitars arow, But each deadly blade is deftly made into a Cupid's bow.
Scimitars were waved aloft, and cries of menace burst forth.
But Allah kept watch over him, and Sakr-el-Bahr never delivered battle but he wrested victory to the scimitars of Islam.
After him came a dozen black-robed janissaries with scimitars along which the light of the torches rippled in little runnels as of blood.
With whirlingscimitars the savage Arabs were upon them, hacking, hewing, yelling.
Both knelt down; there was a flash of two scimitars in the air, and in a second two spouting, headless trunks were deluging the earth.
That general engagement then, in which the warriors encountered one another with swords andscimitars and lances and battle-axes, became exceedingly dreadful.
The lances and aves and scimitars hurled by his foes--Arjuna's son cut off by means of his sword or warded off by his shield.
Swords and darts and maces and scimitars and clubs and lances and axes, as they fell, looked like dazzling flashes of fire.
Scimitars and darts and maces constituted its thunders.
And arms were seen lopped off, that were adorned with various ornaments of gold, and that Still held scimitars and spiked maces and battle-axes and the fingers of which were still cased in leathern gloves.
Teeming as this ocean-like host doth with ploughshare and darts and maces and shields and scimitars and swords and lances and foremost of shafts, I will today agitate this ocean.
Skilled in battling with maces, masters also of the art of close fight, they are equally clever in striking with scimitars and in falling upon the foe with sword and shield.
Men and horses were hacked in a manner truly horrible by the scimitars of the Sultan's guard, and once or twice Zoraida herself had a narrow escape of death.
Or thinkest thou perchance that victory is sweet Only when scimitars and necks each other greet?
Forty scimitars of gold and forty maces of gold were borne in front of him and behind.
Their bows and their scimitars were the weapons of Allah the true God.
Thy armies" said Bajazet "are innumerable; be they so: but what are the arrows of the flying Tartars against the scimitars and battle-axes of my firm and invincible Janizaries?
The crew of about two hundred men was very densely packed, and about one hundred soldiers armed with muskets, bows, and scimitars occupied the poop.
The fighting men stand ready, their arms bared, muskets primed, and scimitars flashing, waiting for the order to board.
He swept his arm around comprehensively, and everyone withdrew from the apartment, including the Scimitars (one of whom cut my lashings) and the lady of the fan.
Realizing that this was no time for funny business, I staggered to my feet, and between the two Scimitars marched unsteadily through a maze of passages with doors unlocked and locked behind us, stairs ascended and stairs descended.
By a heavy door opening on to the first of the latter, we left the squinting man; and, with the two Scimitars and Black Robe, I found myself crossing a lofty pavilion.
Back in the amber apartment once more, with the twoScimitars at the door and Harun Pasha reclining upon the cushions, I found speech.
But seated on an old-fashioned mastabah before the entrance were two huge negroes of most ferocious aspect, armed with scimitars which glittered evilly in the light of the moon!
Bhanavar beheld the winking of the steel, but ere the scimitars descended, she seized Ruark, and they stood in a whizzing ring of serpents, the sound of whom was as the hum of a thousand wires struck by storm-winds.
Below it are two busts which are supposed to be portraits of Apollo in his two qualities of shepherd and of poet; and guarding the disk, two great scimitars with birds perched over them.
Vermiglioli having studied various other points in the necropolis, suggests that the Volumnii were a race of warriors and that the scimitars were a symbol of their warlike ways.
When the bright scimitars make the eyes of our heroes wink.
On the blades of their scimitars some verse from the Koran is usually inscribed.
She seized his hand and guided him toward the women's apartments, past the frowning guards, who raised large scimitars in interdiction until she waved them aside.
She was veiled, surrounded by her women, and accompanied by a line of eunuchs wearing sheathed scimitars in their waist sash.
They marched forth against each other, and the sun had scarcely appeared, before scimitars flashed, and the whole country was in a turmoil.
Scimitars were drawn, and lances advanced over the ears of Arabian chargers.
Where an hundred scimitars flashed about her head, she rode them down and bored toward the King--bored till her steeds were slain and her chariot overturned, then she arose from the earth and bored on foot into the press.
The warfare was still raging far away in the East, cruel and desperate battles were being fought, and brave Englishmen were winning loot and laurels, or perishing under the scimitars of Sikhs and Affghans, as the case might be.
The well-pleased stars Threw quivering smiles across the gulfy skies, The white aurora flashed great scimitars From north to zenith; and again my guide Full turned on me his face.
But when drop On their crop The scimitars red, And under War's thunder The faithful lie dead, "Oh, bright Is the light On hero slow breaking!
Their scimitars crossed, and the blade of Hassan shivered.
The vanguard gave a shout, shook their tall lances in the air, and rattled their scimitars in rude chorus against their small round iron shields.
Both monarchs fought in the ranks, and yet Fate decided that their scimitars should never cross.
Of the Moslem army the greater number wore mail, some carrying lances and scimitars of Damascus steel, others being armed with light long-bows.
The skins of animals covered their limbs; they carried scimitars and lances and bore fluttering pennons; their horses were small, but of purest breed.
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