How To Use Buckler In A Sentence
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A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.
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But there is something very romantic about the notion of the pirate that remains to this day: The skill of two swashbucklers battling on the deck of a ship, the hunt for buried treasure and the thrill of lawlessness.
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This is what we call niche brand building," said the handsome Mr. Lannung, who was dressed in a suit by Buckler, a company that sponsored his evening out.
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And so it came to pass that daily thereafter did we practise for an hour or so in the armoury with sword and buckler, and with every lesson my proficiency with the iron grew in a manner that Falcone termed prodigious, swearing that I was born to the sword, that the knack of it was in the very blood of me.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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A true swashbuckler like this only comes along once every hundred years.
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In a time obsessed with figures and analyses he slashes away upon the field like an old-fashioned swashbuckler tackling pirates in some seafaring epic.
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The sun was yet so pale a buckler of silver through the still white mists that not a cord or timber cast a shadow; and only Abel Keeling's face and hands were black, carked and cinder-black from exposure to his pitiless rays.
Widdershins
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Inexcusably perhaps, the entire vital element of seizures, grappling, disarms, and use of the second hand or even daggers and bucklers is almost wholly ignored as if it never existed.
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His films were parodies of other films done once too often - the swashbuckler, the western, the spy thriller.
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While Kurosawa is known mostly for his historically accurate, minutely observed period pieces and swashbucklers, Ozu sought drama in the simple rhythms of life in the modern Japanese family.
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Colum whirled round, his hand going to his knife, the other wrapping his thick woollen cloak shield, or buckler, round his arm.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The four pages were in the tilt yard, where there stood a wooden figure, called a "quintain," which turned round upon an axis, and held a wooden sword in one hand and a buckler in the other.
The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune
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“Doubt not me, Catherine,” replied the Queen; “a while since I was overborne, but I have recalled the spirit of my earlier and more sprightly days, when I used to accompany my armed nobles, and wish to be myself a man, to know what life it was to be in the fields with sword and buckler, jack, and knapscap.”
The Abbot
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What tends strongly to confirm this view, that the buckler was the model for the coin, is the fact that for a long time Macedonian coins were finished upon the obverse, in imitation of the national shield.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886
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Also included on the disc is a trailer for Ivanhoe, as well trailers for two other swashbucklers from the same period, Knights of the Round Table and Scaramouche.
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He dreamt that he was a brave and noble swashbuckler, swinging from chandelier to chandelier as he dueled with his foes.
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Ultimately, it is the fencing, the swordplay in the swashbuckler movie, that catches our attention.
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A deliverly fellow was Hughie -- could read and write like a priest, and could wield brand and buckler with the best of the riders.
The Monastery
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They pioneered the idea of the miniseries: six hours of television to cover the breadth of such novels as Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House and Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley.
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Some archers wore virtually no defensive equipment and were even barefoot, carrying perhaps a small buckler as well as a sword, dagger, or lead maul.
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O'Hearn plays the lead, a swashbuckler named Kane.
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I've learned history, mathematics, science, how to steer and ship and how to be a swashbuckler.
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Targets and bucklers are small shields known to have been used in later historical periods, although targets became larger in the Renaissance.
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He will cover you with His pinions, and under His wings you will shelter; His faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
In the Valley of the Shadow
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This celebration engages our mythopoetic imagination with those early swashbucklers who had some admirable traits.
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Finally, the amount of sexual innuendo in this film is quite interesting, considering the time in which it was made and the probable intended audience for a Zorro swashbuckler.
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There was I, and Little John Doit of Staffordshire and black George Barnes and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele a Cotswold man; you had not four such swinge-bucklers in all the inns of court again: and, I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were, and had the best of them all at commandment.
Act III. Scene II. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth
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And frequently in the later books, as in (1 Chronicles 12: 8) ( "buckler"); (2 Chronicles 11: 12) (It varied much in length, weight and size.) d.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Allen leaps first upon the scene, bucklered as no warrior ever was since the days of Homer or before.
Gala-days
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Honeysuckle, fraochan, wood sorrel, bugle, blue-bell, few-flowered woodrush, royal fern, hay-scented buckler fern and foxglove all occur on the forest floor along with numerous mosses and liverworts.
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On the exposed limestone, crinkly yellow rock-rose and dark red helleborine; also hart's-tongue fern, rigid buckler-fern, hard shield-fern.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh, one more bit, this is the description of my books from the program book: "... takes place in Ile-Rien and it's capital Vienne, unchronic city halfway between Glorianna London and a swashbuckler Paris.
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Take up shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.
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Marvin blocked her way, his legs spread out and his hands at his hips like a nerdy swashbuckler wannabe.
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As an adaptation of sorts, Ivanhoe was disappointing in its shortcomings; as a swashbuckler series it was bold, striking and distinctly enjoyable.
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In Ps. 91: 4 "buckler" is properly a roundel appropriated to archers or slingers.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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If he could only have been sure of her moral exemption from taint, a generous ardour, in reserve behind his anxious dubieties, would have precipitated Dudley to quench disapprobation and brave the world under a buckler of those monetary advantages, which he had but stoutly to plead with the House of
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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The intuitions are the bright band, without armor or shield, that slay the mailed and bucklered giants of the understanding.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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He looked like a swashbuckler fresh out of a living faerie tale, she thought.
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You'd think that this story would be a cinch to pull off for the king of the swashbucklers, but Niblo's direction is so unimaginative that it was all I could do to stay awake.
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Transcending the boorishness had been the unmistakable lure of the swashbuckler.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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The producers believe that the time is right to deliver audiences another sea-based swashbuckler, and cite the success of Errol Flynn's Captain Blood, and Marlon Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty as influences.
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Essentially the movie is a blueprint for every swashbuckler that was to follow.
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The hermit maintained and bucklered his opinion, by quotations from
The Bride of Lammermoor
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The graphs of annual tomato production held no interest for this one-eyed swashbuckler with the concentration span of a gnat and the heart of a desert lion.
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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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Colum whirled round, his hand going to his knife, the other wrapping his thick woollen cloak shield, or buckler, round his arm.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Over the years, Fleitz earned a reputation as Bolton's chief enforcer, a swashbuckler willing to go the extra mile to make the intel fit the desired policy - even if it meant knocking a few heads.
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And hard by this drug-market they came upon a palace, imposingly edified and magnificently decorated; so they entered and found therein banners displayed and drawn sword blades and strung bows and bucklers hanging by chains of gold and silver and helmets gilded with red gold.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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This my swashbuckler misnames sentimentality -- and thus I feel that he always tends to admire the wrong qualities, because he condones even what he calls sentimentality in one whom he chooses to admire.
The Silent Isle
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The London Masters taught the traditional English weapons, in particular the sword and buckler.
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A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler.
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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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The actor brings an emotional depth not usually associated with swashbucklers of this nature, helping to turn Reynolds' movie into the intriguing couple of hours that it is.
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The question is not whether they will be toppled, but why it requires an inflated running time of more than two hours for the swashbuckler to get the job done.
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If only because it's shorter, however, the decent effort that is The Count of Monte Crisco is a better swashbuckler than Brotherhood.
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The buckler is a thing wherewith a man most chiefly defendeth himself: and that must be perfect faith in Jesus Christ, in our Captain, and in his word.
Sermons on the Card
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Gain L3,000 -- loss, the hearts that would have bucklered the
The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
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As for the rest of us, the latest installment to the Zorro story is a complete flop if not for the fact that it wields that beloved swashbuckler.
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-- To wanton it here in the moonlight with that damned swashbuckler, that brigand, that kennel-bred beast of a sbirro!
Love-at-Arms
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The most ancient known fish is a Pteraspis, one of the bucklered ganoids or plated fishes -- by no means a very low type -- allied to the sturgeon
Darwinism (1889)
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It is interesting to note that while some 16th century fencing masters, such as di Grassi, include among the combinations of arms they teach, sword and buckler, sword and square target, or sword and round target, Palladini does not.
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Like the western, the old-fashioned swashbuckler is a lost cinematic art.
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As many men as there are around her, so many knights has such a one, ready bucklered for her service, should occasion require such services.
North America
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No doubt about it, Sir Christopher was a swashbuckler, perhaps the biggest British business ever produced.
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The soldiers wore the downcast, silent, and sullen looks with which they trail their arms at a funeral, and stepped with such caution that you could not hear a buckler ring or a sword clatter, though so many men in armour were moving around the tent.
The Talisman
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Hamlet was a swashbuckler, a mass-murderer, bragging about killing Poles, killing a minister behind a cloak, without even knowing quite who was there.
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A round buckler he bore and a huge twibill, which no man of the kindred could well wield save himself; and it was done both blade and shaft with knots and runes in gold; and he loved that twibill well, and called it the Wolf's Sister.
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Coragio then, my brave guest! for if thou layest a petition from Sir Hugh at the foot of the throne, bucklered by the story of thine own wrongs, the favourite Earl dared as soon leap into the Thames at the fullest and deepest, as offer to protect Varney in a cause of this nature.
Kenilworth
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A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler.
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This swashbuckler of a movie on board the HMS Surprise in 1805 is set in a time when men were men and women were pretty much out of the picture.
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I think she bucklered herself with the secret philosophy of her strong mind, and resolved to forget what it irked her to remember.
Villette
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Success meant getting Oracle founder and CEO Ellison, a man who has cultivated a public image as a swashbuckler - flying a fighter jet and racing yachts - to buy into the concept.
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Screenwriters, past and present, with occasional exceptions, are the true for-hire workers in film: a swashbuckler one time, a weepy the next, and who-knows-what to follow.
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She's in very utilitarian studded leather armor with a small buckler.
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His old shield had taken many blows and was dented, so he replaced it with a buckler with red trim, a gold emblem at its center.
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The film is Robin Hood with Errol Flynn - a real swashbuckler.
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Where The Count of Monte Cristo is a nod to the steadfast Errol Flynn swashbuckler, Brotherhood subverts all period conventions with kickboxing Indians and the Pope's team of highly trained assassin babes.
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A little more complicated than the papercraft projects that I usually post, but impressive swashbucklers, spacemen, ninjas and Halo Warthog paper toys by James Bowen.
Papecraft Warthog and adventurers by James Bowen
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Such is the nature of American fencing that even at the nationals, marginal swashbucklers like me can end up dueling an Olympian.
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A real Errol Flynn swashbuckler, this game is a water-bound escapade stuffed with sword fights, ship battles and a governor's daughter to woo in every port.
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“Think not,” said the Templar, “that I have so exposed thee; I would have bucklered thee against such danger with my own bosom, as freely as ever I exposed it to the shafts which had otherwise reached thy life.”
Ivanhoe
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The color of your clothes or the paint on your buckler can be equally distracting.
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Hill , Buckler, A History of Western Society II : From Absolutism Western Civ textbook, for background reading.
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So if you're looking for a good swashbuckler type of film, go and get The Adventures of Robin Hood or Captain Blood.
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While our affection for swashbucklers may have dwindled however, it seems Hollywood producers, and indeed stars, still have a curious fondness for tales of adventure on the high seas.
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A blunt swashbuckler salvaged only by Tim Roth's wonderfully loathsome villain.
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But the image of a swashbuckler stuck, a wandering soul who left heartache and merriment in his wake.
THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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He embodies what remains the rather sad refrain of many swashbucklers in the Valley: a technologist who achieves success but alienates himself from the thrill of invention and love of family.
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The male fern and broad buckler fern are also common, with occasional tussocks of wood melick.
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Some of the rare plants to benefit from the Project will include limestone fern, baneberry, soloman's seal and rigid buckler fern.
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A lance or spear; improperly rendered "buckler" in the
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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It was an opportunity to fulfil a boyhood fantasy to mix it with swashbucklers.
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Posidonius writes, that Fabius was called the buckler,
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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A deliverly fellow was Hughie — could read and write like a priest, and could wield brand and buckler with the best of the riders.
The Monastery
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` ` Think not, '' said the Templar, ` ` that I have so exposed thee; I would have bucklered thee against such danger with my own bosom, as freely as ever I exposed it to the shafts which had otherwise reached thy life. ''
Ivanhoe
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His visor was closed; he bore a huge buckler and a ponderous lance; his scimiter was of a Damascus blade, and his richly ornamented dagger was wrought by an artificer of Fez.
Washington Irving
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Its name reflects the fact that its back bears numerous prickles and thorns sticking up from button-like bases known as bucklers.
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His buckler was the right of free speech; his sword, the argument that he stood for peace through all the world, for arbitration and disarmament among all the peoples of the world.
The Thunders of Silence
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The soldiers wore the downcast, silent, and sullen looks, with which they trail their arms at a funeral, and stepped with such caution that you could not hear a buckler ring, or a sword clatter, though so many men in armour were moving around the tent.
The Talisman
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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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Four front row stands of arquebus backed by two stands of sword and buckler men and two stands of pike the latter placed centrally.
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Hill , Buckler, A History of Western Society II : From Absolutism Western Civ textbook, for background reading.
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Zorro has always been a dashing swashbuckler who outfoxes his enemies in their defeat.
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A ballsy swashbuckler on camera, who did all her own stunts, O'Hara was totally submissive in her personal life.
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Neither did his frank and manly deportment, though indicating a total indifference to danger, bear the least resemblance to that of the bravoes or swashbucklers of the day, amongst whom Henry was sometimes unjustly ranked by those who imputed the frays in which he was so often engaged to a quarrelsome and violent temper, resting upon a consciousness of his personal strength and knowledge of his weapon.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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The cover had the classic image of a swashbuckler.
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A round buckler he bore and a huge twibill, which no man of the kindred could well wield save himself; and it was done both blade and shaft with knots and runes in gold; and he loved that twibill well, and called it the Wolf's Sister.
The House of the Wolfings
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Long after, it would come back to me, the oddity of that spectacle in the hollow -- a man in a red fealdag, with his hide-covered buckler grotesquely flailing the grass, he, in the Gaelic custom, making a great moan about his end, and a pair of bickering rooks cawing away heartily as if it was no more than a sheep in the throes of braxy.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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When she was younger, she had disguised herself as a boy to learn weaponry, and now she was skilled in using a short sword and a buckler.