dint

• “He scarce scrupled a penny after I gave him leave to try a sword dint upon it.”

  The Fair Maid of Perth

• “Such was his strength that none against whom he laid lance in rest could keep the saddle, and no shield was proof against his sword dint; but for his courtesy even more than for his courage and strength,”

  Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion

• “Such was his strength that none against whom he had lain lance in rest could keep the saddle, and no shield was proof against his sword dint; but for his courtesy even more than for his courage and strength, Sir”

  The Junior Classics — Volume 4

• “Such was his strength that none against whom he laid lance in rest could keep the saddle, and no shield was proof against his sword dint; but for his courtesy even more than for his courage and strength, Sir Launcelot was famed far and near.”

  Heroes Every Child Should Know

• “Every true-born son or daughter of San Guido," she explained, "bears in the palm of the hand a little pit or dint, which is the survival in his descendants of the scar made by the thorn in the hand of San Guido himself.”

  The Lady Paramount

• “In reality, by dint of their sheer numbers, Latinos are reshaping the American Catholic Church, with every indication that their impact will only increase in years to come.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Grace

• “More than three decades later, through dint of hard work and shrewd judgment, Mr. Blankfein is at the helm of Goldman Sachs, the most powerful bank on what's left of Wall Street—a position that has made him a wealthy man.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Still Standing

• “On the other hand, it would be gratifying to assume the disappearance indicates that those responsible for the current series have decided to acknowledge that though much separated the upper and lower classes in English society during the period covered, the classes by dint of living under the same roof were inevitably intertwined.”

  The Huffington Post: David Finkle: First Nighter: Upstairs Downstairs Makes Sparkling PBS Return

• “By dint of stubborn steadfast perseverance upon the endless mountainside of art I reached at last a lofty level.”

  2009 May 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS

• “Sometimes, for reasons not entirely clear, I get warm fuzzy thoughts that we hunters and anglers - by dint of our rugged individualism, our pragmatism and our vast reserves of good, old-fashioned common sense - are somehow immune to the ever-changing winds of faddishness and gimmickry.”

  A Tactical Side-by-Side Shotgun?

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