Word: scabbard
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...lived today, he would have found a new enemy, and faced a struggle for which he could have found no words. One can no longer put an edge on the verbal sword, and dash up intellectual Bunker Hills; if one did, one would trip over the scabbard. Any one who tries to give battle at the present day can echo the despairing words of Peer Gynt: "It's like a fight among bears, half-asleep and snarling." The fact is, there's nothing to hit, and if one hits it, it doesn't care. Yesterday Britain and Italy demanded that...
...finding of a body of a beautiful young girl on a main highly on the serene island of is the occasion which sets in the adroit, speculative activities of the efficient Hamilton office force. With only a label, a bunch of lilies and empty scabbard as clues, the skillfully goes on to plot a in which surprise follows . with engaging regularity we find before us a story which a welcome freshness and originality...
Stealthily, while street lights winked, a group of men approached the Central Po lice Station. Their leader carried a large sabre without scabbard, wore a soiled white linen suit, no hat, brilliant yellow shoes. It was a revolution...
...moment the Treasury Department drew a sharp economic sword, brandished it menacingly at Soviet Russia. Anti-Reds clamored for a general onslaught upon U. S.-U. S. S. R. trade. Last week the Treasury thrust its weapon back into the scabbard...
Black and silver Cito von der Marktfeste, a German shepherd, strode into the ring like a buccaneer. He was tall at the shoulder, his tail swung behind him like a curved scimitar in a tasselled scabbard, his mouth curled with an ironic courtesy. He regarded the spectators with complete composure, his lean face masking carefully but not completely its sneer. Intimidated by his arrogance, the women who sat nearest the ring applauded its proud and villainous visitor...