A kind of falchion or chopper, cased it with gold and called it. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
On his left side he hung his curved battle-falchion. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
Deep though the front the ponderous falchion cleaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer] Reference
Then gleams the youth's bright falchion; then the Muse. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
She as a lamb falls smitten a twin-edg'd falchion under. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Come quickly with thy winged feet and flashing falchion!. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
He flung his falchion from his side, and in the dust sat down. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
He flung the falchion from his side, and in the dust sat down. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
The Egyptian falchion was nothing more than a sword-shaped ax. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
She as a lamb falls smitten a twin-edg'd falchion under. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
Gord had slipped under a backhand sweep of the falchion and struck with his shortsword. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
Plunging his falchion in the sand to hide its stain, he went back to the fallen soldier. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The taller man held his falchion and a second weapon now, a long, dark-bladed misericord as main. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
He turned his face away from the hideous stench and saw his falchion leaning on the hearth, just out of reach…. From Wordnik.com. [Mini-interview: Nicholas Ian Hawkins |] Reference
The leader drops his gold hilted sword, no longer able to wield the weapon, powerless to hold the keen-edged falchion. From Wordnik.com. [Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days] Reference
The sunbeam coming from a cloud, the white falchion, and the chained hart are heraldic devices belonging to Edward III. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
``There is the falchion, and then sometimes you must speak abruptly into the face of grief, for grief gives bad advice. From Wordnik.com. [Engine Company 6.] Reference
Gord laid to with blinding speed and power, sending the falchion flying as his shortsword slashed Sunray's arm in the process. From Wordnik.com. [Night Arrant]
Yet so it befell, his falchion pierced that wondrous worm, — on the wall it struck, best blade; the dragon died in its blood. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere] Reference
Wherefore he that cometh firste into the house, laieth doune his falchion before the dore, as a token that the place is occupied. From Wordnik.com. [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference
With a furious exclamation, Kenkenes slackened his pace only long enough to undo the falchion at his side and rushed to the fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Few men have written with more fire and energy than Mr Macaulay; and, in the heart of a battle, he handles his falchion like a Legionary. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
And his wide-waving falchion gleams brightly in air. From Wordnik.com. [The Culprit Fay and Other Poems] Reference
Heaps strew'd on heaps beneath his falchion groan'd. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
Calaynos draws his falchion, and waves it to and fro. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Tales] Reference
The Irish Champion, nothing daunted, drew his falchion. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Champions of Christendom] Reference
He drew the falchion from the sheath, and held it up on high. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Tales] Reference
And leave such wounds as ne'er were made by falchion in the fight!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II] Reference
So for the first time in the journey Osmund's long falchion saw daylight. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
Walter, going more gravely into the combat, killed another with his falchion, at the use of which he was expert. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX.] Reference
Instead of blunting the edge of her falchion she whets the steel, and would fain infuse into it her own acerbity. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of Charlemagne] Reference
He seized a falchion hanging apart, but the lady stayed his arm, and led to another flight of stone ending in a kind of corridor. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
Whose looks, with Turkish languor fraught, work havoc in the breast, Leaving such wounds as ne'er were made of falchion in the fight. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
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