How To Use Swash In A Sentence

What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress? The Sun
A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.
He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy
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.
Ferri revealed a madcap brilliance as Katherina, while Bocca's Petruchio buckled his swashes with rare comic flamboyance.

Likewise ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ to distinguish from the other films in which Errol Flynn buckled swashes and stuff.
Aimed at a teenage audience, it will be swashbuckling without the floppy hats and feathers say the makers.
Learning to fence was the consummation of a love affair I'd had with swordplay ever since Errol Flynn first swashbuckled his way across my late-night TV screen as Captain Blood.
The success of this cosmopolitan mollusk has much to do with its prowess as a swash rider.
For younger visitors, swashbuckling pirates will be hand to entertain, along with magicians, face paintings, musicians and much more.
Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do, salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do … they are laughed to scorn and accounted silly fools by our gallants. Inside Higher Ed
A true swashbuckler like this only comes along once every hundred years.
These include the gold swash, the typeface and its deep crimson color which I still need to finetune the letterspacing for. Summer 2003 | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr
Wimbledon had a new, swashbuckling hero. The Sun
This claim to glory, doubtless exaggerated in stereotypical Gascon fashion, caricatures, indeed cleverly reverses the terms of Soyer's own, far less swashbuckling role in the July Days — Mirobolant would have slain elite troops while standing his ground in the street, whereas Soyer was nearly lynched by a revolutionary mob while fleeing from a palace kitchen. Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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.
His good looks and swashbuckling style taught a generation that golf could be exciting both to play and to watch. Times, Sunday Times
Macarthy – switching from truculence to triumphalism as fast as the cockiest small boy; buckling a fine swash for the children in the audience; offering adult eyes a suggestion of pathos, of knowing that he is trapped in a dream yet still bewitched by its promise of "fun" – certainly has something to crow about. Peter Pan – review
Instead, I pirated books (lawyers and other official-type people take note, by “pirate” I mean I dress up in swashbuckling garb while I read free public-domain titles). Falling Off the E-Book Wagon « Become A Robot
All I could think about was my handsome brother dressed as a Mohawk swinging from the mast of the ship and landing on deck like a swashbuckling pirate!
Too often the film comes across more like a tribute to old-fashioned swashbuckling epics than a solid story in its own right, and the result is diverting enough but lacks dramatic heft.
From this swashbuckling storyline modern pentathlon was born 100 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
His films were parodies of other films done once too often - the swashbuckler, the western, the spy thriller.
All the villains are villainous, the damsels worthy of long low wolf whistles, the heroes swashbuckling.
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.
Latendresse is given the adjective of 'swashbuckling' … what in the heck does that mean for a hockey player? SBNation.com - All Posts
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In turn, Kirby caught every detail of her swashbuckling pirate.
Beneath the swashbuckling image is a methodical player who makes the safe, smart move nine times out of 10.
He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent. CHAPTER XI
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.
He dreamt that he was a brave and noble swashbuckler, swinging from chandelier to chandelier as he dueled with his foes.
Ultimately, it is the fencing, the swordplay in the swashbuckler movie, that catches our attention.
Eventually he joins the buccaneer William Dampier and they swashbuckle around the Pacific.
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It uses a swash plate design that imparts reciprocating motion via the inclination of a faceplate on a shaft relative to the axis of rotation.
On hearing what I said, he shaked his hand and some wine swashed out of the glass.
After a cacophonous ascent and destructive return to earth, it dies disconcertingly into reverberations of swashing seashore breakers, intertwined with disorientating echoes of still wailing guitars.
The yo-ho-ho swashbuckling in the film drew comparisons with Errol Flynn, but Bloom's territory is not raffish seduction.
O'Hearn plays the lead, a swashbuckler named Kane.
So whether is Da Vinci swashbuckling, is ego acclaimed?
I've learned history, mathematics, science, how to steer and ship and how to be a swashbuckler.
This celebration engages our mythopoetic imagination with those early swashbucklers who had some admirable traits. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
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His swashbuckling behaviour shows that he isn't a gentleman.
Cyrano was a swashbuckling swordsman from the Gascon area of France (similar to the character D’Artagnan by Dumas) and he fought many duels. Five People Born on March 6 | myFiveBest
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.
Steep profiles usually consist of a marked landward ridge, usually referred to as the berm, which forms the landward limit of wave swash.
A lighter-weight dress sword with unusual gilt on the blade, it might possibly have belonged to the swashbuckling mercenary.
This exaggerated elevator swash mix will accomplish the same function of a 140 CCPM radio setting.
If Jayasuriya's innings was exciting though, Muttiah Muralitharan's stay was swashbuckling in comparison.
Swashbuckling forward play which illuminated the gloomy wasteland of the National League has been rationed to tantalising glimpses.
However, a few years on and no longer buckling a swash with his early vigour, tough battle boy Henry died of a tummy ache.
Brave at the back, brilliant in midfield, swashbuckling up front, Laois may not be the finished article yet.
He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy
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. Nantes and Utopiales Photos
This exaggerated elevator swash mix will accomplish the same function of a 140 CCPM radio setting.
Much horsefoolery, swashbuckling and romance commence, soundtracked by Bachman Turner Overdrive.
The Legend of Zorro is just like Indiana Jones, old Batman movies or any other movie featuring cheesy fighting or swashbuckling.
There soon erupts a web of swashbuckling action, family rivalries and murky moralities. Times, Sunday Times
Marvin blocked her way, his legs spread out and his hands at his hips like a nerdy swashbuckler wannabe.
As an adaptation of sorts, Ivanhoe was disappointing in its shortcomings; as a swashbuckler series it was bold, striking and distinctly enjoyable.
Though I could no longer see the clam, I knew it had pushed its siphon to the surface for feeding, and it occurred to me that the hydroid, by creating an eddy in the swash, might actually help the clam obtain food.
Most famous for his swashbuckling systems and successes at Foggia more than 10 years ago, he was an unyielding believer in attack as the best form of defence.
I realize in reading this that this sounds as if I swashbuckle around winning arguments left and right.
Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make conges, which every common swasher can do, [1990] hos populus ridet, &c., they are laughed to scorn, and accounted silly fools by our gallants. Anatomy of Melancholy
However, like so many of their recent ones, this win owes more to attrition than swashbuckle. Times, Sunday Times
The players displayed a swashbuckling confidence.
He looked like a swashbuckler fresh out of a living faerie tale, she thought.
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.
Transcending the boorishness had been the unmistakable lure of the swashbuckler. DEATH OF A NYMPH
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.
Later, in Drogheda, it's Charlie who leads the charge on the canvas, with a walkabout that can only be described as swashbuckling.
Essentially the movie is a blueprint for every swashbuckler that was to follow.
Away from the theatre Tim is the senior coach at Carlow Fencing Club and he is looking forward to other theatrical swashbuckling engagements.
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.
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.
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
His shoes were dampened and were soaked under the freezing water which swashed around.
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His approach on presentation day is equally enthusiastic but less swashbuckling. Times, Sunday Times
A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler.
Expect swashbuckling fun including music, pantomime and storytelling, plus parrot workshops and puppet shows. Times, Sunday Times
On hearing what I said, he shaked his hand and some wine swashed out of the glass.
And, besides, his swashbuckling was a fine thing to see. Chapter 2: Challenges
The look may suggest dilettante, cavalier and swashbuckling and that is partly his style with bat in hand, but he is cussed and determined.
Russel Crow cannot summon even a small fraction of the talent that existed in Errol Flynn. cavine errol flynn did it with style and a smile, which immortalized the character. costner deadpanned it which left audiences cold. all that was needed was for crowe to bring humor, swagger and swashbuckle into this role. this trailer shows none of that. so right now its looking a straight clone of maximus. this is gladiator 2. why not just call it that? Final Epic Robin Hood Movie Trailer | /Film
He has been called a swashbuckling Boys' Own hero.
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.
Perhaps his swashbuckling style does not sit comfortably with certain members of the management. Times, Sunday Times
So, while Sporty Hubby swish-swashed his way down the mountain, I carefully snowplowed and slid most of the day. Parking Lot Humiliation
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.
He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy
As is so often the case with these overblown movies, the swashbuckle could do with a bit of tightening. The Sun
Too often the film comes across more like a tribute to old-fashioned swashbuckling epics than a solid story in its own right, and the result is diverting enough but lacks dramatic heft.
If only because it's shorter, however, the decent effort that is The Count of Monte Crisco is a better swashbuckler than Brotherhood.
This was a splashy, swashbuckling performance, full of thrills, spills and fingerwork as diamantine as the pianist's apparel. Times, Sunday Times
A solid surf beats against the breakwater, swashing spray on the sidewalk vendors and strolling passers-by.
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.
-- To wanton it here in the moonlight with that damned swashbuckler, that brigand, that kennel-bred beast of a sbirro! Love-at-Arms
With the right script, he might be able to capture that kind of swashbuckling magic again. ‘The Princess Bride’ Director Rob Reiner To Helm Zoe Green’s Action-Adventure ‘Book Of Shadows’ » MTV Movies Blog
It's faster, it's shorter, Ward says of the sabre, which is associated with the swashbuckling aspects of fencing. Ward ready to slash her path to the Olympic podium
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In his swashbuckling sensibility, Jomon "eccentrics" pursuing "mysterious, quixotic dreams" made a "mad dash" across the Pacific in dugout canoes. Books: Ice Age Swashbucklers?
Like the western, the old-fashioned swashbuckler is a lost cinematic art.
Not only does he prove his comedic bona fides, he manages to ground his bizarre portrayal (more swishy than swashbuckling) with more than one-note caricature.
England, and a delicate sort of drink in Wales, called metheglin; but there was a kind of "swish-swash" made in Essex from honey-combs and water, called mead, which differed from the metheglin as chalk from cheese. For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
He showed a sly, deadpan humor as Legolas in Lord of the Rings and even as the stalwart and overserious Will Turner, straight man to Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow, he had flashes of wit and the devil may care attitude that all swashbuckling heroes must have in the face of impossible odds. Lance Mannion:
“Nay, then, I will don thy buff coat and cap of steel, and walk with thy swashing step, and whistling thy pibroch of ‘Broken Bones at Loncarty’; and if they take me for thee, there dare not four of them come near me.” The Fair Maid of Perth
Mrs. Smith, might very well be calling the swashbuckling shots when the cameras start rolling, a date that Warner Bros. is eyeing as "as soon as possible". UGO.com - Latest Stories
No doubt about it, Sir Christopher was a swashbuckler, perhaps the biggest British business ever produced.
The Anubis Gates. Tim Powers. A modern scholar gets caught up in time travel, body- swapping, swashbuckling, and sorcery in London, circa 1810. Thing Charles Dickens meets Indiana Jones.
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They were the bravest, most swashbuckling team of the tournament.
Hamlet was a swashbuckler, a mass-murderer, bragging about killing Poles, killing a minister behind a cloak, without even knowing quite who was there.
The Civil War, with its swashbuckling heroes, its staggering toll, and its consequence of emancipation, is the culmination of an unorthodox intellectual journey. WalMart and the Civil War
Ronald Reagan surrounded himself with swashbuckling Californian businessmen with ill-concealed contempt for the east-coast establishment.
If you do like to use 140 CCPM swash plate setting but do not want to invest in a new radio, you can use a 120 degree CCPM setting combined with an elevator-to-pitch mix of approximately 35%.
From his shoot out with the cops at the Little Bohemia Lodge, to his daring escape from jail using a wooden gun covered with boot polish, the film allows us to indulge in the idea of Dillinger as a kind of swashbuckling hatchet man. “Nobody did it like DILLINGER… He was the gangster’s gangster!” | Obsessed With Film
This is succeeded by plane-bedded sands dipping gently seaward, which are produced by the swash and backwash of the waves on the beach face.
Doesn't mean he cannot swash or buckle or both, but it will require additional suspension of disbelief, particularly if he has a fistfight with some muscled-up 20-year old.
His approach on presentation day is equally enthusiastic but less swashbuckling. Times, Sunday Times
And how to incorporate It'so it didn't become swashbuckling. That it a precision about it.
Man, I never dreamed the power those things had, they just swashed us across the ground like we were skating, on our butts, that is. Jay's Journal
Swash carried a wapper of a fore-and-aft mainsail, and, what is more, it was fitted with a standing gaff, for appearance in port. Jack Tier; Or, the Florida Reef
Inspired by a few facts from Errol Flynn's life, and rooting her story firmly in Jamaican history, Cezair-Thompson vividly imagines the life of Ida, who is little more than a child herself when she gives birth to her daughter May, the illegitimate child of 1930/40s movie star Errol Flynn - known as a swashbuckling adventurer on screen, and for his glittering parties and affairs off screen. The Pirate's Daughter: Summary and book reviews of The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson.
A picaresque novel with postmodern flourishes, the sinfully entertaining Zorro is serious fiction masked as a swashbuckler.
Thus disintegrating Entreri's ideas about the weakness of the swashbuckling technique.
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.
The swashbuckling feline star of Shrek goes solo in this animation. The Sun
The cracking of timbers told him that all was over with the Swash, nor had he got back as far as the gangway with his prize, before he saw plainly that the vessel had broken her back, as it is termed, and that her plank-sheer was opening in a way that threatened to permit a separation of the craft into two sections, one forward and the other aft. Jack Tier
He was a tall, handsome, kind of swashbuckling, enchanting man, and he definitely held sway over the boy. CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2003
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.
The result of this majestic writing spree is the swashbuckling tale of heroic Prince Rama and his allies, and their universe-rattling battle with the villainous demon king Totsakan and his unruly cohorts.
Many ships were taken as prizes by awaiting interlopers and pirates, and much of the booty spilled into the seas during swash buckling raids.
Or you could go swashbuckling in "The Three Musketeers" or "Treasure Island," where Captain Flint was "the bloodthirstiest buccaneer that sailed. Books With Strong Male Characters
the swash of waves on the beach
There's something kind of romantic about it all, a swashbuckling director.
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.
Well, he was very tall and strong and swashbuckling with a big black moustache curled up in a spiral at each end.
Holding a joypad has rarely felt so swashbuckling. The Guide's best games of 2011
The film is Robin Hood with Errol Flynn - a real swashbuckler.
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.
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
The swashbuckling feline joins forces with a cunning thief when he goes on a quest for a magical golden goose. The Sun
What she was neglecting to realise was the simple fact that being a pirate is awesome and some serious swashbuckling skills would definitely help on my next voyage across the high seas. Hello, I’m five years old | Johnny B. Truant
Such is the nature of American fencing that even at the nationals, marginal swashbucklers like me can end up dueling an Olympian.
Expect swashbuckling fun including music, pantomime and storytelling, plus parrot workshops and puppet shows. Times, Sunday Times
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.
There's the cold-eyed, creepy stillness and bottled aggression of the ex-military types, the jovial Swanndri bonhomie of the hunters, a swash of piratical old-timers and some adenoidal gun dorks.
Perhaps his swashbuckling style does not sit comfortably with certain members of the management. Times, Sunday Times
Delvin fumbled at the terminal, and a swash of cold water splashed over us, flooding the ground. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
As the claymores, targes and antique pistols on the walls of Seaforth Cottage also testify, domicile north of the Great Glen can also engender a degree of swashbuckling.
This is the man who coined the phrase 'bouncebackability' after a swashbuckling performance from his Crystal Palace team and it made such an impact that it found its way into the dictionary! Give Me Football Featured Content
This is succeeded by plane-bedded sands dipping gently seaward, which are produced by the swash and backwash of the waves on the beach face.
Police are once more issuing tickets and those using the nation's roads for daredevil or swashbuckling adventures can get in on the action.
He is capable of avuncular charm, wheezy laughter and mischievous wit as well as grizzly ferocity and stick-in-the-mud reactionary attitudes and walking-stick-in-the-hand swashbuckling.
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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.
So while the days of swashbuckling cavaliers may be over, the story of a ‘rover’ who vows never to get married, even when all of his friends have already tied the knot, still endures.
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.
A blunt swashbuckler salvaged only by Tim Roth's wonderfully loathsome villain.
The first is that the crumbling dead corals swash about in the waves - not a good place for a baby coral to survive.
The page uses serifed and swashed Web fonts; copious vertical and horizontal rules; vintage engravings; and a background image of a pulpy, papery texture to re-create the thrill that awaited one who clapped a copper into a newsboy's palm and flapped open a newly purchased copy of the Latest Edition. CNET News.com
But the image of a swashbuckler stuck, a wandering soul who left heartache and merriment in his wake. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
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.
A solid surf beats against the breakwater, swashing spray on the sidewalk vendors and strolling passers-by.
It was an opportunity to fulfil a boyhood fantasy to mix it with swashbucklers.
Composed in the late 1930s – with one ear directed toward the rise of fascism, and the other turned to the conservative critics complaining about his progressive, atonal style – the work combines elements of 12-tone serialism, nostalgic lyricism and folk dance, all couched in the swashbuckling rhetoric of the Romantic concerto. Ehnes/LSO/Noseda - review
And it is with that swashbuckle that they will travel the long way to Tipperary, cockleshell heroes to a man, deep in culchie country, to take on the rather flawed frigate manned by the current Kingdom crew.
I wasn't sure how director Gore Verbinski Pirates of the Caribbean would fair by leaving the swashbuckling heroics of Captain Jack Sparrow for the much scalier territory of Rango, but he greatly benefited from an amazing animation department. Richard Karpala: Review: Rango
Another MIA relative, George Brooks of Newburgh, N.Y. is still bitter at being "scammed" for $28,000 by a swashbuckling former Green Beret who promised to go to Laos and Vietnam to search for MIAs. Fitts, Richard A.
The wind and the waves swashed, keened, percussed; the decks plunged and rolled. The Whale Warriors
When a heavy lurch came, hot water swashed up and over, a dismal howl, and well I fancy the cook and his mate will be more careful in future!’
Linda Christian -- the first Bond girl once dubbed the "anatomic bomb" by LIFE magazine and married for a time to swashbuckling mega-star Tyrone Power -- is dead at 87. News - latimes.com
Or will he have the confidence to swashbuckle around on debut? Times, Sunday Times
What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress? The Sun
He had a swashbuckling posture; but such was his powerful physique and piercing look, it seemed natural rather than boastful or proud. Seminary Boy
A swashbuckling ride in this exciting swingboat which reaches an angle of 60 degrees on either side!
Much of the music has a seafaring tone to it, with a touch of the heroic, swashbuckling fare you would find from a pirate movie.
Because they cannot ride an horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do, his populus ridet, etc., they are laughed to scorn, and accounted silly fools by our gallants. Mangan's
He was the intrepid war photographer whose swashbuckling style and good looks gained him fame around the world before his untimely disappearance while on assignment. Times, Sunday Times
And that could mean a change from the swashbuckling driving style he has shown in the past. The Sun
The Adventures of Robin Hood is one of the truly great swashbuckling adventure films.
Zorro has always been a dashing swashbuckler who outfoxes his enemies in their defeat.
As the claymores, targes and antique pistols on the walls of Seaforth Cottage also testify, domicile north of the Great Glen can also engender a degree of swashbuckling.
Slowly , slowly. Don't swash the soup.
A ballsy swashbuckler on camera, who did all her own stunts, O'Hara was totally submissive in her personal life.
He was the intrepid war photographer whose swashbuckling style and good looks gained him fame around the world before his untimely disappearance while on assignment. Times, Sunday Times
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
The cover had the classic image of a swashbuckler.
Put it this way: After you read this book, you get to use the word "swashbuckling" to describe it. Newsweek's Best Novels Of 2000
This feat had been achieved by Jock Stein's men playing a swashbuckling brand of attacking football that was anathema to Latins tutored in the strangulating defensive ways of catenaccio.

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