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Example sentences for "scymitar"

Lexicographically close words:
scuttled; scuttles; scuttling; scutum; scyence; scythe; scythed; scythes; sday
  1. His scymitar was hilted with a single diamond, the scabbard of chaunders-wood was crested with rubies and emeralds and it depended from a gemmed waist-belt; while his bow and richly wrought quiver hung by his side.

  2. Thereupon the Infidels drove at the Moslems; the two hosts joined battle and the two lines were mingled, whilst the keen scymitar of Al-Yaman did good work.

  3. On his breast he wore a jewelled mirror and in his hand he bore a keen scymitar and his lance of Khalanj wood,[FN#446] the curious work of the Frank, weighing a quintal.

  4. As soon as dawned the morn, the troops sprung to horse when they had donned their armour gear and drawn the scymitar and slung the spear.

  5. The holy martyr offered to God the first fruits of his sacrifice; and then the executioner, no longer fearing any amulet to turn the edge of his weapon, raised the scymitar and hewed off his head.

  6. The scymitar and the knife, held in the left hand or slung by the left flank, are wholly out of order (i.

  7. So he drew his scymitar and, cutting the two in four pieces with a single blow, left them on the carpet and returned presently to his camp without letting anyone know of what had happened.

  8. I was about so to do when he who had directed me to the scymitar said, 'Smite him not a second time, for then he will not die but will live and destroy us!

  9. As soon as dawned the morn, the troops sprung to horse when they had donned their armour-gear and drawn the scymitar and slung the spear.

  10. On his breast he wore a jewelled mirror and in his hand he bore a keen scymitar and his lance of Khalanj-wood,[446] the curious work of the Frank, weighing a quintal.

  11. Those glances, fell as plundering Turk, to heart such havoc deal As never havocked scymitar made keenest at the curve.

  12. But deem not by the keen-edged scymitar I'm slain-- The hurts and harms I dree are from arrows of her eyes.

  13. The Moor availed himself of the moment, and before Aguilar had time to recover, the scymitar of his foe had cleft through the helmet of Don Alonso, and sunk deep into the brain.

  14. El Feri, "or by the mighty Allah, a single word more, and a blow from the scymitar of El Feri shall be thy only answer.

  15. The noble minded Moor stood by his side, his scymitar drawn, and evincing on his countenance no signs of terror or dismay.

  16. Having established an outwork of a table and two chairs between us, and cautiously having left the door ajar to secure his retreat, he drew the scymitar and placed it before him, his eyes being fixed on me the entire time.


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