But the people would have no dealings with us, and two sworded officials, in sweeping robes of silk that made Captain Johannes Maartens' mouth water, came aboard of us and politely requested us to begone.
When the Iroquois reached Japan, and throughout her stay, two-sworded men were as thick almost as blackberries.
I chanced to ask him if he had ever seen a two-sworded man.
Two or three Japanese two-sworded officials were in attendance, and memory recalls their grave, impassive faces, as seen at times when some routine communication called me in to speak to our captain.
Their retainers were the famous two-sworded men so long a terror to Europeans, and who strongly objected to any intercourse with foreigners, probably foreseeing its inevitable result.
Some of us can remember when the two-sworded men of Japan were still actualities, not, as they have now become, historical entities, the terror of the foreign community there.
Her father had been a samurai in the old two-sworded days.
The favorite character of the Japanese drama is the otokodaté, the chivalrous champion of the common people who rescues beauty in distress from the lawless, bullying, two-sworded men.
Curious white stripes gave the coat a military look, and it seemed appropriate rather to the wardrobe of some two-sworded warrior than to that of a gentlewoman of the old type.
I'm oppressed with rage and grief, For the deed that I have done On his body sworded sore!
She contained a party of two-sworded officials, who came on board the flag-ship, where Captain Murray and Archie happened at the time to be.
Of this the two-sworded official was evidently very well aware, judging by the nervous expression on his countenance.
One of the principal of the two-sworded gentlemen inquired, with an air of surprise, "why the ships of war had come uninvited to the town?
The interview at length came to a conclusion, and the two-sworded officials took their departure for the shore.
Then I knew that the two-sworded man had offended a cat and a badger, and would have a very bad time of it, for these two animals and the fox are to this day black sorcerers.
But the two-sworded man was far more miserable than I.
A two-sworded man in the black and gold brocade rose up and imitated the gait of an obscure actor called Henry Irving, whereat, not knowing that he was serious, I cackled aloud till the Japanese policeman looked at me austerely.
Nobody cared, and the polite people in the gallery could not understand why the Professor and I were helpless with laughter when the child, with a clog for a sword, imitated the strut of the two-sworded man.
The Thunder Cat was still working her wicked will on the two-sworded man, but all would be set right next day.
At this terrible moment a gilded Thunder Cat, which is a cat issuing from a cloud, ran on wires from the flies to the centre of the gallery, and a boy with a badger's tail mocked at the two-sworded man.
And, as I thought of Liberty Marched handcuffed down that sworded street, The solid earth beneath my feet Reeled fluid as the sea.
To the aristocratic caste the Japanese people were as absolutely submissive as if every two-sworded man wielded the power of life and death, which, so far as the common people were concerned, was not far from the simple truth.
And great joy was in Burgundy, and much splintering of lances by sworded knights.
Twas Ferdia slew Bla by the water, Son of Cathbad red-sworded was he: And from Lugaid Mugarne gat slaughter, The grim lord of the Torrian sea.
The Young Man talked (all sworded and spurred) Of the partisan's blade he longed to win, And frays in which he meant to beat.
As a consequence of this state of affairs, a few serious collisions took place between the foreigners and the two-sworded samurai, retainers of the clan-rulers.
The slightest offense by one of the swordless men would be paid for by a summary act of the two-sworded swashbucklers, while beggars and farmers were cut down without compunction, sometimes simply to test a sword.
They are dressed in complete costumes to represent farmers, nobles, or two-sworded samurai, and they weep and rant and slay each other through the length of a classic play in the most natural manner.
A generation since, the two-sworded samurai were guarding the door of Japan, lest it should be opened.
The two-sworded Samurai march in front, crying "Shitanirio!
Conjurers, acrobats and wrestlers performed for the entertainment of his Royal Highness; whenever we went abroad, thirty two-sworded Yaconins attended us.
We turn to the helmed and sworded Figure that stands mysteriously beside us whilst we are all unaware of His coming, and the swift question that Joshua put rises to our lips, 'Art Thou for us or for our adversaries?
In terror the fellow sank on his knees before the two sworded man.
The voice was very human, the peremptory gesture surely that of a two sworded man.
We share our primal parents' fate, And, in our turn and day, Look back on Eden's swordedgate As sad and lost as they.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sworded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
