Word: sword
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carried a heavy Roman sword with which to pry open cracks in doors. He was especially dangerous in unexpected attacks, ambuscades, &c. The next tent boasted as its occupant no less a person than Sir Johannes Ti de Gar. His armor, which had been presented to him by the Chorus of the Greek play, consisted of twenty-five pieces made of a material known as "Sidgwick's Composition," each piece being inscribed with appropriate selections from "Schmidt's Metres" and "Curtius's Etymology." He usually carried "the shield of Achilles," but as this was being used by his protege, Hellenic...
...color of the Faculty - shone on every side. First and nearest to the throne of Prince Presistrardin * was the tent of the famous and redoubtable knight, Sir Triangle de Rhombus. His well-knit though slender and youthful frame was encased in plane armor adorned with original propositions. His sword (the one with which Archimedes was killed) was a straight line with some breadth and a handle added. His helmet was skilfully made of two pi's and a square R. The method by which it was made was a secret to every one, including Sir Triangle himself. The whole bearing...
...cannot think of it without an indefinable personal sense of terror, as if what he that night saw was impending over the life of every man, a sword hung by a thread. To his keen, sharp, sensitive temperament an apparition truly tragic was anywhere possible. And the phantasm which appeared to Shelley shortly before his death came from reading a weird drama by Calderon, - a work so rare as to be wellnigh inaccessible...
...friends, you know," continued the stranger. "I am your best friend - in disguise; and you are to come with me and see Alice. I am her friend, too. And the sun is down, and there is a great flag hung across the sky . . . Do you see that long keen sword over there? That is mine - and yours...
...pied piper of Hamelin! who were these four brightly clad figures seated at the tutor's table? As I quietly approached them, the one at the end of the table, who was scratching the end of his nose with a sword as though puzzled, spoke to his vis-a-vis, "???! Ante-up, Phil, ante-up! that cup of wather has gone t' yer head...