battle-sword

• “He tried his old battle-sword — that famous blade with which, in”

  A Legend of the Rhine

• “Havas dressed in a light simar and wearing his crown of rock-salt, from which there strayed two tresses of hair as twisted as the horns of Ammon; and Hamilcar in a violet tunic figured with gold vine branches, and with a battle-sword at his side.”

  Salammbo

• “By main force he struck with his battle-sword so that it stuck in the head, driven in by the onslaught.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Early Middle Ages 500-1000

• “The half-line would then read, '_the battle-sword splendid_.”

  Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

• “Then the battle-sword burned, the brand that was lifted, [1]”

  Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

• “E'en the battle-sword hafted that had to name Hrunting,”

  The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats

• “But I could imagine, even then, that, under some excitement which should go deeply into his consciousness—roused by a trumpet-peal, loud enough to awaken all of his energies that were not dead, but only slumbering—he was yet capable of flinging off his infirmities like a sick man’s gown, dropping the staff of age to seize a battle-sword, and starting up once more a warrior.”

  The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter”

• “As Beowulf spoke, his men brought in the banner, the shield, the battle-sword, and the helmet.”

  Northland Heroes

• “King Ring sits in his barrow, buckler on arm and battle-sword by his side.”

  Northland Heroes

• “Around his arm clung a heavy golden circlet and at his side gleamed the great battle-sword.”

  Northland Heroes

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