bared

• “So saying the old captain bared his blade and with it dealt the sailor who had spoken a thrust in the throat, that the steel came out gleaming from his nape; and quoth another of the sailors, “What hath our comrade done of crime, that thou shouldst cut his throat?””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Well?" said the governor, and the word bared his teeth because his lips were dry.”

  The Grafters

• “Kelsey rushed up beside the giant, his sword bared and point aimed in towards Tommy's heart.”

  The Woods Out Back

• “Shapur was wearing full armor and holding his sword bared in his hand rather than the rod of justice.”

  The Eternal Mercenary

• “In his kingly way he has taken but little account of lives sacrificed to his impulsive policy; he is a king with a double-edged sword bared in his right hand.”

  The Mirror of the Sea

• “The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank grey beggarman, half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two old shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a three-stringed harp.”

  Celtic Fairy Tales

• “The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a green wand of holly.”

  Celtic Fairy Tales

• “Hail is known as bared, which literally translates as cold.”

  Watts Up With That?

• “31 THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER It is a part of our office to stand uncloaked, masked, sword bared, upon the scaffold for a long time before the client is brought out.”

  The Shadow of the Torturer

• “For the record, she implied that they grinned and "bared" it rather than wait for the preferred skin tone.”

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