Word: broadsword
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...onward they sped, through the wide French doors and into the darkened hallway that was already filling with smoke. Felicity wielded the torch like a broadsword, swung it left and right. Slowly the dark house came alight with fire. She paused at the top of the great staircase. In the gray din below, she thought she saw a thread of golden hair. It disappeared, and then she saw her imbecile of a husband running in the same direction. He must not reach Roxanna! Felicity hurled the burning torch down the stairs at Frederick’s feet. Frederick shrieked...
...chain necklace. The chain said to all who saw it, Sure, I may look like an honor student who is bad at sports and gets stomachaches before parties, but I am actually capable of horrific violence, passionate lovemaking and savage indifference to a tribe of orcs with my +2 broadsword. I wore that chain every day, from sixth grade to 17th grade, when my new girlfriend told me I had to take it off if I wanted to have sex. And when you're a struggling 22-year-old with two roommates, you don't hold on to sentimentality...
Audience members said they especially enjoyed the high-kicking, floor-pounding wu-shu demonstration, as well as the broadsword performance put on by Lisa M. Yu ’11 and Stephen J. Chester...
...Bruce Crawford, the SNP's local candidate, brandishes no broadsword, greeting shoppers with more mundane vows to revoke an unpopular local services tax. This election is "not actually about independence," says Peter Lynch, professor of politics at Stirling University. "People want more from their Parliament, but they don't necessarily want that yet, if they ever...
...year-old, he served two years in prison before his release in June 2004. "What really bothers me is that years from now, I'll still have to worry about something I did at age 19," says the offender, who is now 23. "This is like using a broadsword to cut out a lump of cancer." Legislator Jerry Behn, the lead sponsor of Iowa's new residency law, sees things differently. "It's very important not to instill victim status on these predators," he says. "Some inconvenience on them is nothing compared to the lifetime of suffering they give...