“Mole who blew whistle on MP expenses is a 'swashbuckler' with a £7million trail of debt”. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday morning update 24th May] Reference
Banker recalls Petters the 'swashbuckler'; widowed victim of scheme testifies. From Wordnik.com. [Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal] Reference
In argument with Arthur I was a very swashbuckler. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
The novel appears to be of the nostalgic swashbuckler variety. From Wordnik.com. [August Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour] Reference
Senior-citizen swashbuckler Ford confronts a bobbed Blanchett. From Wordnik.com. [Implausible <i>Indy</i>: Ike-Era Ford Fights Russians, Aliens] Reference
This isn't an updated swashbuckler, it's a backdated Star Wars!. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates, Robots And Bull Whips: The Swashbucklin' George Lucas] Reference
"Tell thy long-legged swashbuckler of our meeting," he sneered. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Starring Errol Flynn, the premiere swashbuckler of the sound era. From Wordnik.com. [HIGH DEFINITION: Robin Hood Comes to Blu-ray] Reference
An enjoyably literate swashbuckler with a rare Spanish perspective. From Wordnik.com. [What Reid is Reading] Reference
Briggs jumped into the questioning with an flourish of a swashbuckler. From Wordnik.com. [French Vanilla Death - Seconda Parte] Reference
And now Sulu, who is at heart a swashbuckler out of your 18th century. From Wordnik.com. [The Naked Time] Reference
About this time there chanced to be at Geneva a swashbuckler from Berne. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
The mere possibility of one of their children being swashbuckler to Mumbo. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
We need to see a proper Pirate swashbuckler and Captain Blood is the template?. From Wordnik.com. [Phillip Noyce Remaking 1936 Pirate Flick Captain Blood « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Farrukh Shah is a bear, Ali Beg a swashbuckler, and old Sikandar Khan — yaie!. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
Gerald Vine had recently starred in a swashbuckler made out at Pinewood studios. From Wordnik.com. [Bottled Spider]
The landlord summed up the signs of a swashbuckler and approached him deferentially. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
She's perfectly convincing as a swashbuckler but the film is bloated, as advertised. From Wordnik.com. [DVDs: I Heart "Firefly"] Reference
If a man is going to play the swashbuckler, I like to see him able to swash his buckle. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Joanna added a few more notes to her mental list of items left out of swashbuckler movies. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
He has in him more of the swashbuckler and the bully than of the courtier and the cavalier. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
If you follow artist Michelle Vaughan on Twitter, you learn that she's a culinary swashbuckler. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Mesler: Eat, Drink, Buy Affordable Art] Reference
"Napoleon emerges as a magnificent swashbuckler, more sinned against than sinning," wrote Black. From Wordnik.com. [Waterloo For A True Believer] Reference
The Mask of Zorro is an old-fashioned blood-and-sand swashbuckler in the Tyrone Power tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Banderas' Zorro-in-Training Sweats, Swashes] Reference
Kurt could not picture himself the same, a bloodthirsty swashbuckler eager for perils and plights. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
Do not neglect to embrace your inner swashbuckler, and here's a helpful instructional video to get you going. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
A rollicking swashbuckler on the high seas, part romance, part pirate adventure, part historical and part fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Sea Witch] Reference
Arturo Perez Reverte series of swashbuckler novels set in 17th century France is being released in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
One is reminded rather of Stephen Leacock's young swashbuckler who leaps onto his horse and gallops off in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [The Election and America's Future] Reference
A good old-fashioned Hollywood script calls for the experienced swashbuckler to leap into action to save the day with a saber. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Zagunis lights up saber competition at fencing worlds] Reference
Meet Will Swyfte—adventurer, swordsman, rake, swashbuckler, wit, scholar and the greatest of Walsingham's new band of spies. From Wordnik.com. [For Your Viewing Pleasure: The Silver Skull] Reference
The country - and Richard Nixon - probably remember him as the swashbuckler played by Jason Robards in "All the President's Men.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bradlee Treatment] Reference
Pucky waddled after him like a faithful hound but not before winking confidentially at the old red-bearded swashbuckler of a captain. From Wordnik.com. [Vagabond of Space]
One might also use terms like ‘swashbuckler’, ‘derring-do’ or ‘adventure’ to describe them, or variants on ‘cracking yarn’. From Wordnik.com. [Historical fiction and romance] Reference
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