He refrains from sabre-rattling with regard to Iran -- although I have no doubt the sabre is at the ready and will be unsheathed frequently on the campaign trail. From Wordnik.com. [McCain’s Speech - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
Responding to the latest pronouncements from Sinn Féin North Down DUP MLA Peter Weir reiterated that his party would not be bullied by what he termed sabre-rattling. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie] Reference
So Windu's pretentiously-coloured sabre is finally being put to good use. From Wordnik.com. [Scar Friends Luncheon Circle] Reference
Well, the 1897 pattern sabre is a beaut - but more when I've tried it out properly, and had time to check its history. From Wordnik.com. [New sword] Reference
The sabre was their weapon and they fought the swordsmen with their own skills. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Gold]
In tai chi class we're doing the broadsword sabre form now, don't know if I mentioned that. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Fighting with a sabre is a very different kettle of the piscine variety compared to the rapier. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Steel and Hot Blood] Reference
It's faster, it's shorter, Ward says of the sabre, which is associated with the swashbuckling aspects of fencing. From Wordnik.com. [Ward ready to slash her path to the Olympic podium] Reference
By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY American Olympic fencer Sada Jacobson competes in sabre. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Jacobsons carry big part of U.S. fencing hopes] Reference
It's called sabre rattling or bluffing. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: I Can Demagogue About Iran Because Public Is Ignorant] Reference
It's called sabre rattling or bluffing. From Wordnik.com. [McCain: I Can Demagogue About Iran Because Public Is Ignorant] Reference
15 minutes ago, -0 / +3It's called sabre rattling. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
I believe I fought too, for my sabre was all bloody. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Major's sabre struck the floor till the table shook. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
The fellow was once a dragoon; he proposed the sabre. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A sentinel with drawn sabre paraded up and down in front of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It was the rusty and notched sabre in the corner of the cottage chimney. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The open country permitting a sabre fight, both sides seemed bent on using that arm. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Then placing himself within the door, he drew his sabre, and stood there as a guard. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
On these occasions he wore his dress uniform, cocked hat, aiguillettes, sabre and spurs. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He mounted a fine horse, was covered with a cloak, and armed with a bow, a sabre, and a spear. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Another stroke of the sabre on the floor that rattled the broken glass in the windows followed. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
"She is putting on her uniform," replied Vogotzine, with a loud laugh which made his sabre rattle. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was a little pistol-shooting and sabre-hacking, and for some minutes things were rather mixed. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a sabre; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
Upon my return to Baltimore I arrested the representative fair donor of the sabre, as General Wallace has told. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
Reno was too sharp to be easily caught, however; he leaped aside and the sabre-like claws of the panther missed him. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
In an instant the bear would have been upon him and one stroke of his sabre-like claws would have finished Andy Sudds. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
The sham slave did as she was ordered; and the Vizier, seeing her prostrate, fell upon her, and slew her with his sabre. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
His sabre was there, too, and strapped to the saddle on each side were his uniform boots, toes in stirrups -- all reversed!. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
There is no evidence of rattling the sabre, as those who viewed American statesmen and American conditions rightly anticipated. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
And then Tareq warns, "we are going to saberage a bottle of champagne" - which means, to uncork a bottle with a sabre, or sword. From Wordnik.com. [Whose house is THAT?: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#2, Aug. 12)] Reference
He found that all defence was vain, and, throwing away his sabre, he knelt down, bowing himself to the ground like a humble slave. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Then he flung body and weapon forward, the latter left his hand smoothly, and the sabre-sharp point sunk deep in the yielding blubber. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
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