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Example sentences for "tulwar"

Lexicographically close words:
tulisanes; tulit; tull; tulle; tulo; tulwars; tulzie; tum; tuma; tumba
  1. The scoundrel who did all this was not after my tulwar each time, but had planned striking a terrible blow at our prestige, for we should make a poor show without our gains.

  2. No," said Wyatt slowly: "the tulwar hangs where we put it, quite safe.

  3. Their leader stepped out, tulwar in hand.

  4. He came in at your window and went out by the sitting-room, and the tulwar has gone.

  5. No," he said, as he removed bandage after bandage, "a cut from a tulwar just below the shoulder.

  6. Then, looking at me with a peculiar smile, he passed his hands behind a purdah, and produced the gorgeously jewelled tulwar and sheath which the rajah had offered me before.

  7. Give up your English sword, and take the tulwar I will place in your hands.

  8. Just then my eyes rested upon the beautiful tulwar that he had drawn across his knees when he sat down.

  9. Sale, at the head of the latter, was cut down by a tulwar stroke in the face; in the effort of his blow the assailant fell with the assailed, and they rolled together among the shattered timbers of the gate.

  10. Pottinger was wounded in the leg, Haughton, the adjutant of the Goorkha corps, had lost his right hand, and his head hung forward on his breast, half severed from his body by a great tulwar slash.

  11. He had no weapon, yet in that flash of time he noticed that not a tulwar was drawn.

  12. Then, at a nod from Umar Khan, down came the tulwar upon the neck of the doomed Hindu.

  13. The latter then questioned him, in process of which one of the freebooters stole up behind, his tulwar raised.

  14. Umar Khan drew his tulwar and laid its keen edge against one of the helpless man's ankles.

  15. But Mehrab Khan, who was behind, spurred alongside of her, and with a lightning-like sweep of his tulwar cut down the foremost beast, nearly severing it in half.

  16. Then the flash of a keen tulwar in the air, and the deluging, headless corpse was writhing and squirming right at Tarleton's feet.

  17. Eric Murray, as he struggled along clutching the gleaming tulwar tightly in his hand.

  18. I've got a tulwar yet that I cut out of the hand of a 'pandy' who was hacking away at Colonel Hardwicke.

  19. A single clap of his hands, and these faithful retainers were ready to rise, tulwar in hand, and cut down any intruder.

  20. Charlie, however, drew his pistol, and Hossein took his place with his drawn tulwar by the helmsman.

  21. Tim understood the words and, seizing a sword and pistol which lay close to the bedside, followed Hossein, who had glided up the stairs, with a drawn tulwar in his hand.

  22. He knew that not even the legendary tulwar of Amir Khurum could shatter that invisible curtain.

  23. A gaunt old chief elected himself to this position, shook his tulwar at Conan as a preamble, and shouted accusingly: 'You would not let us go raiding Peshkhauri to rescue our brothers!

  24. Then he hurled the man savagely against the ground and stood over him with his tulwar in his hand.

  25. Each man in this land who has any claims to respectability walks armed, carrying his tulwar sheathed in his hand, or hung by a short sling of cotton passing over the shoulder, under his left armpit.

  26. Others, lean, dark men, with bound jaws and only a tulwar for weapon, dive in and out of the dark alleys, on errands of State.

  27. It was a broad-bladed tulwar which the beams from above them showed him to be waving.

  28. With a yell as savage as theirs Govind Singh rose in his stirrups and felled his nearest opponent with one mighty blow, and, leaning forward, buried his tulwar in the shoulder of another.

  29. The terrified rascals tried to turn aside, and the carbines cracked and the lance-points fell and rose again, and Ramzan Khan's tulwar was merciless.

  30. He cut at the villain's head, but a tulwar interposed, caught his blade, and snapped it off at the hilt.

  31. We cannot use bow or tulwar against weapons which flame and kill quicker than any storm lightning!

  32. A fire blazed high and in its light men leaped and whirled in a mad dance with tulwar blades catching and reflecting the red gleam of flames.

  33. He leaned over the wall till the Mahratta horse who were charging down upon the gate saw him, and set up a defiant shout, while their leader, a young man of fine appearance, waved his tulwar and called out to him.

  34. And now they were returning on foot, leaving a small guard with their animals, and he noticed that every man carried a formidable tulwar in his hand, while not a few had pistols, and some daggers of eastern shape and manufacture.

  35. The hilt of his tulwar flashed as he turned to Owen, while ever and again there was a scintillation from some portion of his dress as the sun's rays struck there.

  36. When within twenty yards of the gates he raised his tulwar in the air, and at the signal six men detached themselves from the party and raced on, while the remainder wheeled and galloped along the face of the fort.

  37. For answer the leader of the horsemen shot his tulwar back into its sheath with a click, and then advanced still nearer.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tulwar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.