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Word: sworde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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Usage:

...vast army. Thus it happens that we have those barracks that are called colleges, and those half-military uniforms with which the students are afflicted. It is even a subject of gratitude that they were not also obliged to march to recitation to the music of the drum, sword at side and musket on shoulder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...gurded me sword by me side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JERRY MAHONEY'S (K. O. S. P.) PATRICK'S DAY. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...sword and shield and buckler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO WOMEN. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...patron-saint of the histrionic profession. He enrolls and magnificently equips a regiment of soldiers, aspiring to military glory, if not by deeds of valor on the battle-field, at least by gaudy uniform in time of peace, and by brandishing in front of the "Bloody Ninth" a bloodless sword. But not only does he raise and support armies; he creates navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding to the many titles he already enjoys the new one of Admiral. He drives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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