falchion

• Drawing his falchion, and uttering a thousand anathemas, he strode down to the scene of combat with some such thundering strides as Jupiter is said by Hesiod to have taken when he strode down the spheres to hurl his thunder-bolts at the Titans When the rival heroes came face to face, each made a prodigious start in the style of a veteran stage-champion. —  Washington Irving
• And when for variety's sake the scimitar-phrase is transferred from orchestra to voices, it is admirable to see how the same character of the falchion--of hip-and-thigh warfare, of victory predominant--is sustained in the music till the last bar. —  The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
• On him he turn'd The falchion, glutted with Medusa's gore And plung'd it in his breast. —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
• Perseus plung'd His mortal falchion, as the trembling wretch His helpless arms extended, in his breast But now his valor Perseus found oppress'd By crowds unequal, and aloud exclaim'd Since thus you force me, from my very foe More aid I'll ask;--my friends avert your eyes Then shew'd the Gorgon's head. —  The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I ; II
• Walter, going more gravely into the combat, killed another with his falchion, at the use of which he was expert. —  The Boy Crusaders A Story of the Days of Louis IX.

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