rapier

• She came round the tent swift and terrible as a rapier, her steel-gray eyes flashing and fierce. —  Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs
• All the steel of his spirit rusted, all the brilliancy of his brain clouded; his life was like a fine rapier which is left in a corner of a dusty attic and forgotten In certain rare states of the atmosphere the gold cross on St. Peter's is visible from some of the peaks of the Abruzzese Apennines. —  The Waters of Edera
• Voltaire's style is narrow; it is like a rapier--all point; with such neatness, such lightness, the sweeping blade of Pascal has become an impossibility. —  Landmarks in French Literature
• Villain, to thy faithlessness I owe the loss of my bride Though the rapier was at the very throat of Jacopo, he did not flinch. —  The Bravo
• The head of the serpent shot forward like a rapier, and reached his breast. —  The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon

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