A swanneck is a long, curving blade. '. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
The next pass of Dewara's swanneck would finish me. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
I kept one eye on his swanneck as I moved toward him. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Dewara stood up, pulling his swanneck from its sheath. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
I had not seen him draw it, but his swanneck gleamed in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
He chased me on horseback and notched my ear with his swanneck as I fled. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Farther along the pathway, I glimpsed the corroded stump of a broken swanneck. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
He walked a few steps away from me, straightened his robes and sheathed his swanneck. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
I thought I had won his regard when he began to teach me how to fight with his swanneck. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
I saw him draw his swanneck and slapped the mare frantically, but she had no more speed to give. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
At his hip hung a short curved blade, the deadly bronze swanneck of his people, as much tool as weapon. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Freely he rejoiced before me, that I would carry a notch in my ear from his swanneck to the end of my days. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
When it came my time, I stepped past the Kidona swanneck that secured the footrope of the bridge and out onto it. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Then I charged him, hoping feebly that I could get inside the sweep of his swanneck and do some damage before he killed me. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
He roared, more in anger than in pain, and a swipe of his swanneck chopped what remained of my stick into two useless pieces. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
If I lay still and feigned sleep, he would have the element of being above me with his feet under him and his swanneck at his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Then, as I watched, a bronze path, no wider than the blade of the swanneck, flowed from the embedded weapon to the top of the first hoodoo. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Later he would explain that such weapons were passed down from father to son, and that the braids of hair were the blessing of his ancestors passed down with the swanneck. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
'I know what a swanneck is, cousin.'. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Dewara's swanneck was sheathed at his side. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
'A plains warrior cut it with his swanneck. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
His hand was already on the haft of his swanneck. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
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