cutlass

• He pulled out his cutlass, an act which may have had sexual significance, and pointed the way. —  FSFDec2003
• And I know how to handle a cutlass, and shoot a partridge or pheasant flying You are the lad for us then," answered the officer. —  John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea
• He laid about him desperately, and many a man of the enemy went down under the terrific sweep of his cutlass--his revolvers he had emptied long ago, save for a single shot which he was hoarding against some special emergency But the fight could not last much longer; his foes pressed so closely about him that Frobisher could no longer freely swing his cutlass, while the blood running down into his eyes half-blinded him. —  A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
• In an instant his cutlass was wrenched from his grasp and he was hurled to the deck, where more men immediately flung themselves upon him, holding him firmly down, so that he found it utterly impossible to move a limb Thereafter the business of binding him was comparatively easy, and he presently found himself swathed from head to foot in coils of rope, until he resembled a mummy rather than a living man His captors then rolled him contemptuously out of the way against the shot-riddled bulwarks, and proceeded to take account of their casualties. —  A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
• While I was doing my best to keep him off with my cutlass, and he was eagerly watching an opportunity to come to closer quarters, Morton, locked in the grasp of a brawny antagonist, came driving directly between us, where they fell together, and lay rolling and struggling upon the ground at our feet. —  The Island Home

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