Muskham came deliberately, a cut-and-thrust whip in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowering Wilderness] Reference

It will be interesting to see if Obama can handle the cut-and-thrust to come.    From Wordnik.com.  ["You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it’s still gonna stink."] Reference

Thus, our cut-and-thrust dogfighter requires no duplication of radar missile armament.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Yankee Station]

After the cut-and-thrust of Westminster, their formality and lack of passion seemed strange.    From Wordnik.com.  [Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography]

We can take the rough-and-tumble and the cut-and-thrust of politics inside and outside the Cabinet.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's more of a slimmed down cut-and-thrust sword, Mikken's idea of what a bravo's sword would look like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stick 'Em With the Pointy End] Reference

Except, in the cut-and-thrust of politics, one might describe it as public office without public service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cedric Perrier: Sarah Palin: What the British Might Think...] Reference

Her shrewd question, uttered almost unthinkingly in the cut-and-thrust of repartee, had got home somewhere on an old wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

By the reign of Elizabeth I, sword-fighting had become cut-and-thrust, the mode perhaps most familiar from “swashbuckler” movies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swing, clang!, shuffle, swing, clang!, shuffle, swing, ow! « It Doesn't Have To Be Right…] Reference

For better or worse, that means much of the time the driver is fighting extra throttle resistance in suburban cut-and-thrust driving.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 Infiniti FX35: Lessons from a car that drives itself] Reference

Of course all were armed; but, fortunately for us, none had anything more formidable than a cut-and-thrust dagger about ten inches long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

It is easy to understand how his temperament found satisfaction and relaxation at the same time in the cut-and-thrust work of Dumas and Weyman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

In the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary debate and manoeuvre, as well as in his knowledge of the intricacies of procedure, Reed was a past master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

That, he felt, was fair warning; there was a great deal of ruthless cut-and-thrust in politics, while diplomacy was by definition more a matter of negotiation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ideal Bride]

Points of order were okay, proper argument was okay: natural instinct and a near-primal taste for the cut-and-thrust took over, and she really quite enjoyed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boiling a Frog]

Governor Manco was a straightforward cut-and-thrust old soldier, who hated an escribano worse than the devil and this one in particular worse than all other escribanos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

Governor Manco was a straightforward, cut-and-thrust old soldier, who hated an Escribano worse than the devil, and this one in particular, worse than all other Escribanoes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] 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

And finally, there was a cut-and-thrust sword of alarming dimensions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference

But in the cut-and-thrust of a crowded train, it can be slightly different.    From Wordnik.com.  [Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk] Reference

They think they lack the cut-and-thrust attitude demanded by many of today's businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories] Reference

What more could one woman possibly need to get ready for the cut-and-thrust of parliament?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Another Lenello made cut-and-thrust motions and shook his head as he asked his own question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookspotcentral] Reference

Where were the devastating asides of yesterday, the cut-and-thrust wit on which fortunes are made?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest From www.politics.co.uk] Reference

Whitehall finance staff lack 'cut-and-thrust attitude' demanded by businesses, says recruitment firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories] Reference

Judges so relish this cut-and-thrust that it sometimes seems they indulge the lawyers only for the sport of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

The parliamentary cut-and-thrust is well-handled, but slightly at the expense of portraying the horrors of slavery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Film | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Price saw it as a purely logistical step, of little interest at this political cut-and-thrust stage of the project.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business Review (NBR) New Zealand] Reference

The slow-moving somnolence of the Lords is very different from the (relative) cut-and-thrust of life in the Commons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest From www.politics.co.uk] Reference

Oons! here to meet some lion-headed fellow, I warrant, with his damned double-barrelled swords, and cut-and-thrust pistols!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rivals A Comedy] Reference

A splendid long, gold-handled, red-velvet-scabbarded, cut-and-thrust sword, and on the sheath was embroidered "ROSALBA FOR EVER!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh] Reference

A splendid long, gold-handled, red-velvet-scabbarded, cut-and-thrust sword, and on the sheath was embroidered 'ROSALBA FOR EVER!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose and the Ring] Reference

The Khiladi is not saying what Stroumboulopoulos asked him, but the TV host is known more for flamboyance than any cut-and-thrust on air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

It was more of a discussion of policies than a cut-and-thrust affair and will leave both leaders without any real momentum going into week two of the campaign.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Age News Headlines] Reference