Noun : The pen is mightier than the sword. ,to perish by the sword.    From Dictionary.com. 

She jabbed it, swordlike, right into my breadbasket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Petty Pewter Gods]

Row upon row of swordlike fangs jutted from its gaping maw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons at War]

I shivered, thinking of the Time Patrol swordlike above me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up The Line]

New laser beams sprang from the ship's bows, swordlike, cleaving electron from nucleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boat of a Million Years]

He looked around, but saw nothing to be used to shield himself from those swordlike beams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Peeve]

One leaps out of the water toward the nose of a cliff, from which swordlike leaves point down.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of Beauty] Reference

Ana stuck her arm out behind her to gesture swordlike with the crescent wrench, then reapplied it to the task.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Darker Place]

In a matter of moments it was whirling its swordlike blades inches from my face, making the most desperate humming noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of a Geisha]

He looked for a weapon, recognized the absurdity of the impulse as he grabbed a swordlike sliver split from the doorframe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams of Steel]

In the millisecond before impact, the tentacles tip had sharpened to a swordlike point and transformed into a razor-edged blade of gleaming obsidian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference

He didn't like the way the red eye was always staring at him, as if waiting for the moment the lord would lower his guard, when the red eye could slide swordlike inside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Labyrinth]

Normally considered placid, unless it feels threatened, the triangular-shaped venomous fish lashed out with its swordlike tail, according to witnesses, piercing Irwin's heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2006] Reference

He took a step toward the door which led into Clothahump's laboratory, found he couldn't move more than a few inches off the cushions before swordlike thorns pricked his legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moment Of The Magician]

His sword is somewhat heavy (read worn out piece of rail track shaped into a swordlike object using steamrollers), so as always I lent him my Second Best Sword, another Battle Abbey clone (see user pic), but nearly 7 years old, and untempered.    From Wordnik.com.  [zornhau: Broken swords!] Reference

Take the long, swordlike plastic bar, hoist it overhead and shake vigorously for a trunk-targeted workout that supposedly causes up to 270 muscle contractions per minute, giving you washboard abs and ropey shoulders that are rounded, not chiseled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Silly Fitness Fads] Reference

And how did knotty unsharp bone claws become keenly honed swordlike blades?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Movie] Reference

The leaves are dark green, swordlike in shape, and grow to 12 inches long and a half inch wide.    From Wordnik.com.  [SplicedFeed] Reference

He had drawn a small swordlike weapon, which I did not know to be there, from the stock of the whip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flight of the Shadow] Reference

The iris by the pond had left its swordlike leaves to say good-bye, and even they were brown and dry and broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flower Stories] Reference

Therefore people welcomed the return of adventurous novels about alien places and times, the trenchant and swordlike stories of Stevenson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alarms and Discursions] Reference

AMBRIDGE - An Ambridge man was run through with a swordlike blade in the midst of a fight with his neighbor Thursday afternoon, Ambridge police said.    From Wordnik.com.  [timesOnline: Home RSS feed] Reference

Quite distinct from these cherubim was the "revolving swordlike flame," which is often represented erroneously as a sword in the hand of the cherubim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference

Three or four clips from their awkward swordlike pangas, and we were each presented with a clean, beautiful, natural goblet brimming full of a refreshing drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [African Camp Fires] Reference

His eyes met Imogen's as he said it, and he almost fancied that something swordlike clashed against his glance, something that she swiftly withdrew and sheathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fountain Sealed] Reference

Sergius was vaguely conscious that he had seen the praefect cloven through the head by the short, swordlike Numidian knife, his own horse seemed to collapse under him, and that was the end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion's Brood] Reference

Yet unheeding her and stern of glance, with his right arm outstretched, from which leaped long tongues of flame, swordlike, into space, Labraid towered above gazing upon foes unseen by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference

They consisted of the long sword, the short sword, the dagger, the mace, and a weapon known as the hand-gisarm, or glave-lot -- a heavy swordlike blade eight palms long, a palm in breadth, and riveted to a stout handle of wood three feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Iron] Reference

The terror which had come into Sir Charles's life, the invisible menace which, swordlike, hung over him, surely belonged in its eerie quality to the land of temple bells, of silent, subtle peoples, to the secret land which has bred so many mysteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire-Tongue] Reference

A life of its own, and violet eyes that, after one swordlike glance all round, were hidden under a line of heavy lashes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference

The six porters began with their swordlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leopard Woman] Reference

Short words in swordlike Latin—and a rout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lonely Burial] Reference

We riding harmless down its swordlike edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.] Reference

Short words in swordlike Latin -- and a rout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Adventure, a Book of Poems] Reference