Her dismissal was the sword-cut she actually felt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

Too late for me, though, sword-cut and bleeding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reign of Istar]

No man can survive a sword-cut through one of his lungs.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

While tearing down the banner he had received a sword-cut across his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, where nothing was discernible but blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

Ali was slain with a sword-cut by Ibn Muljam a name ever damnable amongst the Persians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

It was very fine, both calm and eager; true to his soul, though of course it left out the sword-cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

Properly treated and cured, it becomes hard enough to stop an arrow or turn the edge of an enemy sword-cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Has a scar that was made by a sword-cut, and a white spot on the side of his neck that looks like a bulletmark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference

When he turned to the interpreter, I perceived his features were very fine, though marred by a sword-cut on the cheekbone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Persian Boy]

The Hajj Sharmarkay in his youth was a man of Valour: he could not read or write; but he carried in battle four spears26, and his sword-cut was recognisable.    From Wordnik.com.  [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference

It struck through her like the first throb of a sword-cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference

He said, "Scar on the head, -- sword-cut and optic nerve.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light That Failed] Reference

He looked for a brief space, and said, 'It is a sword-cut.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference

You shall see him in another skin and without the sword-cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective] Reference

Then he bent, and the sword-cut fell harmless upon his leather jerkin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch] Reference

One cannot ascertain the exact amount of injury inflicted by the sword-cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light That Failed] Reference

Maikar, which will turn an arrow or a sword-cut, unless delivered by a strong arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hot Swamp] Reference

"I reckon he's got a sword-cut on the arm; but he's right side up, and don't say nothin 'about it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lieutenant at Eighteen] Reference

He had cold, gentle, blue eyes, and the scar from a sword-cut, which he had received in the war with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant] Reference

After the first fortnight, I felt weary of this continual dissipation, and as I was dressing a sword-cut which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago] Reference

He found a deepish wound in the groin, a sword-cut in the fleshy part of his left arm; then there was his head!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forest Lovers] Reference

Has a scar that was made by a sword-cut, and a white spot on the side of his neck that looks like a bullet-mark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Venner] Reference

Where before had he seen that giant figure, that taciturn countenance, and the livid sword-cut from temple to mouth?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thuvia, Maid of Mars] Reference

A sword-cut extended from the neck over the shoulder to the arm, not only unhealed, but to the highest degree inflamed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grateful Indian And other Stories] Reference

At Fort Wagner, 1863, he had a sword-cut, severing the spinal muscles and overlying tissue for a distance of six inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

'Twas like sword-cut in a great mountain plain, and on the third day we came to a wall of rock which was the head of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

"Think not of that, kind John," said Eustace; "death must come sooner or later, and a sword-cut is the end for a Knight.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference

No matter how deep or deadly the sword-cut or the spear-thrust wound is, if you rub this balsam over it, it will be cured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said] Reference

A sword-cut he received once in Verona has undoubtedly affected his brain, or caused it to be affected under strong excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

'Himmel!' returned his companion, scrutinizing the sword-cut, 'if that's your work on his head, you did it right well, my Pierson!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

Sir Hugh was a middle-sized flaxen man, with hard gray eyes and fierce large-nosed face sliced across with the scar of a sword-cut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Nigel] Reference

Ottawa, Cape Town, Melbourne, and Wellington to Downing Street were becoming severed, not by a sword-cut, but by England's own policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banzai! by Parabellum] Reference

His side was laid open with a spear-thrust, the weapon having fortunately glanced from his ribs, and he had another sword-cut on the hip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition] Reference