How To Use Broadsword In A Sentence
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He leapt from his chair and hurtled around the desk, pausing only for a second at the door to strap on his gun and a broadsword.
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Sparks flew as the broadsword mated with the dagger and swept it aside as if it were no more than a feather.
Conan the Fearless
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They leapt ashore from their longboats, flourishing their broadswords and shouting: ‘Ou-est la jolie kunta?’
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First of which, the hair was in a ponytail and her sword was a black broadsword.
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The battle armour he always wore clanked incessantly against the scabbard of the broadsword at his waist.
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Pistols, automatics, hunting rifles, arrows, a crossbow, a scimitar, a broadsword and a Japanese katana were some of the items.
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The armored soldiers, bearing their large broadswords, axes and spears, flooded into the cave, making the only exit closed from escape.
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I am surprised that the fellow on the subway worked up the gumption to pitch on his book, despite your broadsword and fearsome skull-helmet.
Stuff We Did This Weekend; Or, Our Life Is Queries
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A confusion through which Elric fought, his broadsword clapped in both pale hands.
The Vanishing Tower
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‘So, you just ‘forgot’ you had the family dirk and a five-hundred-year-old Scottish Broadsword?’
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He is wearing a short-sleeved tunic and breeches, his coiffure dressed as a long, interlaced pigtail falling to the horse's rump, with white painted eyes, and a sheathed broadsword at the left hip.
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They brandished war hammers, axes, broadswords, and spears of all shapes and sizes.
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LB: I have a novelette called "Catch Hell" coming out in Ellen Datlow's Lovecraft Unbound in October, and another novelette, "The Broadsword," in S.T. Joshi's Black Wings.
INTERVIEW: Laird Barron
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Whereas Twain on the warpath was a sharp shooting rifleman and Mencken laid about with the broadsword, Brooks's literary weapon is the tweezers.
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When he went upstairs and closed the door to his room, the initial vampire PC was standing behind it with bared broadsword.
PC on PC Violence « Geek Related
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“There goes a mettled wench,” said Lance; “and now, naunt, give me the old broadsword — it is above the bed-head — and my wood-knife; and I shall do well enough.”
Peveril of the Peak
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Their blood up, the Jacobites, most of them armed with small round shields, known as targes, and double-edged broadswords, hurtled down the slope.
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[85] Their encounter was varied, and balanced by the contrast of arms and discipline; of the direct charge, and wheeling evolutions; of the couched lance, and the brandished javelin; of a weighty broadsword, and a crooked sabre; of cumbrous armor, and thin flowing robes; and of the long Tartar bow, and the arbalist or crossbow, a deadly weapon, yet unknown to the Orientals.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
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In tai chi class we're doing the broadsword sabre form now, don't know if I mentioned that.
Archive 2006-01-01
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By the second quarter of the 18th century the broadsword was declining in use and the backsword, which is a thick-backed single-edged blade, was coming into more common use, and unfortunately many of the double- and triple-fullered blades of the 17th century were altered into backswords by grinding down one edge and bringing the point back about one-third of the way from the end.
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A dozen men and women clad in furs were polishing axes and broadswords monotonously, mindlessly.
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Your prompt and uncourteous sword-in-hand attendance on the sovereign is no longer necessary, and would be as unbeseeming as your old-fashioned serving-men, with their badges, broadswords, and bucklers, would be at a court-mask.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Both much prefer to damage opposition defences by putting their head down and charging straight at them rather than flipping the ball to the fly-boys on the wings, and they proved that the broadsword can be just as effective as the rapier.
Jonny Wilkinson primes England blunderbuss to blast Irish hopes | John Harrington
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In the case she noticed a gargantuan broadsword, the blade about four and a half feet long.
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The albino had to sway to one side, staggered, and fell to the deck, rolling as the broadsword thudded into the deck, just missing his shoulder.
The Weird Of The White Wolf
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The Brythunian's arm drew back; the ancient broadsword with its strange, clawed quillons arcked spinning through the air.
Conan The Magnificent
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I may try to make her later, although she was a broadsword scrapper and scrappers aren't my favorites ...
Tired me
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Inverness, came in the morning from the watches, that she was not a man, to know what life it was to lye all night in the fields, or to walk upon the causeway with a jack and a knaps-cap, a Glasgow buckler, and a broadsword.” —
The Abbot
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He himself took his broadsword, katana and short hunting knife for his leg.
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He sighed and rested the blunt end of his broadsword against his shoulder, gazing sightlessly around the battlefield.
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“The Princess of Broadswords and Targets, I say,” answered his companion; “for the Lady of Montrose herself could not be more courteously waited upon; she has four Highland maidens, and as many bare-legged gillies, to wait upon her orders.”
A Legend of Montrose
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Quickly reversing his weapon, he struck the gladiator across the jaw with the broadsword's pommel.
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Clasped before her in her hands, with its point resting on the mahogany wood, was a large, double-handed broadsword - a claymore.
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Na, truly," answered Cuddie, "I keepit aye before the auld woman, and cried for mercy to life and limb; but twa o 'the red-coats cam up, and ane o' them was gaun to strike my mither wi 'the side o' his broadsword -- So I got up my kebbie at them, and said I wad gie them as gude.
Old Mortality, Volume 1.
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When he reappeared, he had a small pack as well as a broadsword and two smaller swords meant for cooperative use strapped to his back.
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Each and every one of them is as adept with the longbow and the broadsword by day as he is with the dirk and the garrotte in the dead of night.
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In this event, both of these brothers participated in the games, and took the third place in the broadsword match, fourth in the Southern Fist and sixth in falchion respectively.
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What gars a hand that can grip a broadsword tremble like a woman's?
Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
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Reproduction swords include basket hilts, mortuary half baskets, rapiers, traditional claymores, officers' broadswords and backswords.
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In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem.
Stop the Government Takeover of America's Armed Forces!
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The broadsword reposed calmly on a desk under the nose of a properly impressed young person named Stokes, cashier.
Truxton King A Story of Graustark
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--- neither beild nor shelter; sae he e'en pu'd the bonnet ower his brow, belted the broadsword to his side, took to the brae-side, and became a broken man. ''
Rob Roy
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Her boots and gloves were of softest kidskin, and a belt encircled her waist from which hung a deadly, but less heavy version of her master's broadsword.
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“Na, truly,” answered Cuddie, “I keepit aye before the auld woman, and cried for mercy to life and limb; but twa o’ the red-coats cam up, and ane o’ them was gaun to strike my mither wi’ the side o’ his broadsword — So I got up my kebbie at them, and said I wad gie them as gude.
Old Mortality
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He raised his sword arm in a fit of rage, preparing to strike her with his broadsword, leaving himself wide open for attack.
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Fine basket-hilted broadswords and backswords would be carried suspended from tooled baldrics with brass or silver buckles and trim.
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Suddenly the boy's eyes flashed a dark blue before he began to charge forward, swinging his broadsword with a single arm.
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No, by swordsman she meant someone who used a heavy broadsword in battle, slashing and hacking.
Strangers In the Night
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Each and every one of them is as adept with the longbow and the broadsword by day as he is with the dirk and the garrotte in the dead of night.
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She curled a vast paw and studied her talons, each as long as a broadsword.
A TIME OF WAR
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DELIVER, and like a proper lad of his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie, And, indeed, he's gleg aneuch at the broadsword and target, I hae played wi 'him mysell at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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Shields, longswords, shortswords, broadswords, greatswords, and any other kind of sword you could name; daggers, dirks, scimitars, pikes, bows, and weapons even whose names escaped her.
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You ask me for my right to examine you, sir (to Henry); my cockade and my broadsword are my commission, and a better one than ever
Old Mortality
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CONAN: Aye, Conan has known many fierce warriors who prefer the hilt of the broadsword to the sheath, if thou knowest what I mean.
Robert Brenner: Conan the Barbarian vs. Marcus Bachmann (in 3D)
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Hung on the walls were swords of every kind: kodachis, katanas, fencing swords, even the heavy and antique broadswords.
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The crowd roared as Derryn swung his sword up, the large blade of his broadsword knocking aside the slash aimed at his head.
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The sword was just as deadly as a broadsword but lighter and easier to handle.
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By the grace o’ Mercy, the horse swarved round, and I fell aff at the tae side as the ball whistled by at the tither, and the fell auld lord took the Whig such a swauk wi’ his broadsword that he made twa pieces o’ his head, and down fell the lurdance wi’ a’ his bouk abune me.”
The Bride of Lammermoor
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There goes a mettled wench," said Lance; "and now, naunt, give me the old broadsword -- it is above the bed-head -- and my wood-knife; and I shall do well enough.
Peveril of the Peak
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Man-made steel met inhuman flesh and black bone, and ... the ancient broadsword cleaved through the demon's wrist.
Conan the Fearless
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Similar in purpose to the gorget of medieval plate armor, the neckerchief served to deflect arrows, broadswords, and even great axes from slicing through the vulnerable neck of a cowboy.
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We started to talk about knives and Mick told me he had a huge collection of knives and swords, ranging from tiny little daggers up to Katanas and Medieval broadswords.
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When comments along the lines of Kelvin MacKenzie's are made at work, I find myself wanting to grab a broadsword and yell things about freedom.
Skittledog: Oh, the rich. How they mock you.
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A big rubber thing with a beam like a broadsword and a pencil torch.
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This problem is even more pronounced in epic fantasy were the barbarian hero can't swing a two-handed broadsword without hitting an ancient prophecy, a royal heir in hiding, orcs, elves or an epic quest to complete.
SF Fanatic: I Am Not A Fan Of Fantasy, Here's Why
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He had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder.
Waverley
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Without dismounting, he drew his broadsword and rapped the hilt against the gate.
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She saw three men rush in, all carrying broadswords, heavy swords that were almost as hard to block as axes.
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They wore heaving broadswords belted on at the waist.
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A long courtyard deck jutted forth like a notched broadsword.
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For the broadsword, which is always swung in an arc and never employed in stabbing, they say: “The sword seeks the breath line,” which means to them the neck, and thereby the cutting off of the head from the body.
Eaters Of The Dead
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There was no skill with the long sword, and Jash wielded the broadsword with a shocking incompetence.
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The edge parry was used with the Highland broadsword and backsword by 1728.
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His buckler was a potlid, his lance a hop-pole shod with iron, and a basket-hilt broadsword, like that of Hudibras, depended by a broad buff belt, that girded his middle.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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That's right, I'm talking about the correct use of broadswords, backswords, sabers, cutlasses, & spadroons.
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The muscular bronze statue of King Afonso brandishing a broadsword outside his 10th-century fortress is a fitting place to start a stroll through the city.
Within Portugal's Cradle
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His arms were thick and muscular, on his back was strapped a thick broadsword, it's hilt made of bronze and silver.
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I will put on my head piece and corselet one day, and you shall hew at me, allowing me my broadsword to parry and pay back?
The Fair Maid of Perth
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The gaps between the white topaz prongs were wide enough for the broadsword's blade to slip through, as it was relatively thin despite the length.
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The Landing Ship Infantry Empire Broadsword was built in Wilmington, USA in 1942, gross tonnage 7177 tons, and given to Britain as part of Lend Lease.
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Hung on the walls were swords of every kind: kodachis, katanas, fencing swords, even the heavy and antique broadswords.
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How did you get a dirk and a broadsword on an airplane?
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While his pistols were no more than the customary horn-handled "dags" worn by most of the men, both broadsword and claymore were something special.
Sick Cycle Carousel
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The axe shaved off an inch of steel off of the broadsword's blade.
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The rebels were not only outnumbered but outclassed in weapons, being themselves heavily dependent upon broadswords and shields while their enemies had muskets and bayonets and above all artillery.
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Skewering with swords and spears seems like small potatoes when Marshall can wield his broadsword and cut a man in half - from top to bottom, not side to side.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Ironclad
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Witness the growth of knives from the dirk to shortsword to huge English broadsword.
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His broadsword hummed through the air, clanged against armor and other blades, and tore flesh and bone with slaughterhouse sounds.
Conan the Relentless
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The speciality chop the Japan devil head broadsword!
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His broadsword was a heavy weapon, but he made it sing in interlocked figure eights about his head and to either side.
Conan The Invincible
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The armored soldiers, bearing their large broadswords, axes and spears, flooded into the cave, making the only exit closed from escape.
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Whereas the ‘cudgel’ was, as stated, for learning the use of the backsword / broadsword.
