unsheathed cables.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The sword unsheathed, yet will not sell the truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

And the armed guard around them, and the sword unsheathed between.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference

He had his sword unsheathed, but apparently there was no one left to use it on.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Darkness » Blog Archive » From the Archives: We Three Rogues] Reference

Sword unsheathed, I dashed across the open space of moonlight toward the trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

His beauty was like a sword unsheathed, bright as sun-struck steel and twice as hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

It was at this moment that the husband entered, he sword unsheathed and flourished above him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Droll Stories — Volume 1] Reference

And, indeed, the sergeant on guard, his sword unsheathed, de claimed the latest revolutionary poems to us in our convict car.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life]

He placed his clothes on the floor within easy reach of his bed, and his sword unsheathed lay on the bed close to his right hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

Jezreel: for there the battle was, -- at least, if that may be called a battle, where there was not one sword unsheathed by the conqueror.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

Her sword unsheathed has forged the calm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference

In the Republic's sacred name unsheathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference

Lord Olivier then his good sword unsheathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

His sword unsheathed, and fiercely thus began.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palamon and Arcite] Reference

And with his sword unsheathed, on pain of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palamon and Arcite] Reference

Swords are unsheathed in silence, and clouds rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn of Dreams] Reference

His arm was working free and his knife unsheathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

And quick unsheathed two fingers 'breadth of blade.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

Quick springing, dauntlessly unsheathed their swords.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

The yellow-bark shield, he unsheathed his old weapon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference

      The ladies unsheathed their weapons ready to fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.15: Journey and a Half] Reference

His unsheathed nerves quivered back from so direct a contact with life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

Then he unsheathed his knife, and, whetting the blade on his left hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School] Reference

Liberty unsheathed his sword, necessity stained it, victory returned it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference

This citizen, against whom they are now unsheathed, is one of ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference

He could not imagine what had made the sound, and he unsheathed his knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

Kaori growled as she unsheathed Seizon and aimed the tip at the shopkeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.4: The Chupacabra is Out There] Reference

The Disinherited Knight sprung from his steed, and also unsheathed his sword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

I stopped, crouched and unsheathed my claws, anxious to see what they could do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witch from Bilbao] Reference

It sprang into the air, all four paws spread and its terrible claws unsheathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference

Those strong, high-lifted heads carried their weapons like unsheathed scymitars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

Krises were actually unsheathed by several of the Sultan's own suite in the Audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference

At one side was his hookah, at the other a two-edged sword and an unsheathed dagger.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference

That evening they were united in wedlock; but when they retired to rest Sigurd unsheathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

That event was signalized by a loud shout, whilst the Highlanders unsheathed their swords.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

With these words he brandished an unsheathed poignard, as if about to make his purpose good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

An unpaid army with unsheathed swords clamored around a poverty-stricken and helpless Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference