In Scotland they excel at the backsword -- the Irish too are admirable hands -- but neither have the temper of the English.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

Rick took us through rapier, backsword, small sword and finally broadsword at least until he smashed it on Andrew's wrist and used a sabre instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fight night] Reference

After nearly eight hours of rapier, infantry sabre with an hour’s digression into backsword techniques we were all, to put it mildly, a little tired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jedi mind tricks and light sabres equals giddy kippers] Reference

Actually, I'm reading George Silver at the moment also and the parallels between Silver and Liechtenauer are remarkable. (the Glasgow backsword class finally opened on Monday).    From Wordnik.com.  [zornhau: Zwerhhau...!] Reference

In the same manner, he proved satisfactorily, that the word sword comprehended all descriptions, whether backsword or basket-hilt, cut-and-thrust or rapier, falchion, or scimitar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

The two interpreters put on a good show of backsword, buckler, main gauche and transitional rapier although it was fairly obviously stage combat rather than any particular techniques from the treatises of Silver and Saviolo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live in Leeds] Reference

England about the abolition of the Briton's old favourite sports, it was conceded by all but a few, that from the custom of boxing, singlestick and backsword playing, wrestling, &c. arose the good temper which distinguishes that people -- Englishmen being less subject to violent fits of anger than the people of any other nation in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

His weapon was, I believe, not the rapier, but the backsword, of which he recommends the use in his book on education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Poets, Volume 1] Reference

Cudgels, quarter-staff, backsword, &c. Hence the origin of that genteel custom of prize-fighting so well known and practised to this day among those polite islanders, though unknown everywhere else.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tale of a Tub] Reference

"I believe you lie, Craigie," said Bucklaw; "however, I can hold my own, both with single rapier, backsword, sword and dagger, broadsword, or case of falchions -- and that's as much as any gentleman need know of the matter.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

I would mix in the frolicks of a country wake, or revel, as they were called in Wiltshire, and contend, generally successfully, with the first proficients of the day, in wrestling jumping in sacks, backsword, or single stick playing, and have borne off many a prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1] Reference

Sir Jasper will deliver you the length of my weapon, and appoint circumstances and an hour for our meeting; which, whether early or late -- on foot or horseback -- with rapier or backsword -- I refer to yourself, with all the other privileges of a challenged person; only desiring, that if you decline to match my weapon, you will send me forthwith the length and breadth of your own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peveril of the Peak] Reference

Sir Jasper will deliver you the length of my weapon, and appoint circumstances and an hour for our meeting; which, whether early or late — on foot or horseback — with rapier or backsword — I refer to yourself, with all the other privileges of a challenged person; only desiring, that if you decline to match my weapon, you will send me forthwith the length and breadth of your own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peveril of the Peak] Reference

I once went to a Whitsuntide revel, with my friend and partner, Jesse Caster of Upavon, and I believe we bore off every prize -- the gold-laced hat, the wrestling prize; the gold-laced hat, the backsword prize; a pair of buckskin breeches, the prize for jumping or running in sacks; the old cheese, the bowling prize; and eleven half-crowns, the prize played for at cricket in the morning: indeed I and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1] Reference

I can hold my own, both with single rapier, backsword, sword and dagger, broadsword, or case of falchions — and that’s as much as any gentleman need know of the matter.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference

A ring made by ropes, proclaimed, that "a hat worth one guinea was to be played for at backsword; the breaker of most heads to bear away the hat and honour," and inviting the youth there to contend for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference

I knew him a good backsword man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Part of King Henry IV] Reference

The weapons a rapier, a backsword, and target.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference

The weapons, a rapier, a backsword, and target.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady of the Lake] Reference

Then tossed he the pike, played with the two-handed sword, with the backsword, with the Spanish tuck, the dagger, poniard, armed, unarmed, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

Then tossed he the pike, played with the two-handed sword, with the backsword, with the Spanish tuck, the dagger, poniard, armed, unarmed, with a buckler, with a cloak, with a target.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

"Ah! Mon Dieu, yes, he has, indeed, a great name in Europe as a fencer and master of arms, either with double or single falchion, case of falchions, backsword and dagger, pistol or quarter staff; and it is the fame of his skill and prowess in these weapons, and the reputation he has earned by his books on fencing, that hath brought me to-day to this remote part of Scotland.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference