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  • She came into the room, through the flames, whipping the saber's blade against the floor.

    Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

  • She had to walk the saber's edge now, going into the twilight on the edge of sleep, where the wakening child would be held by the fumes, but remaining sufficiently in control to be able to lead the boy where she wanted him to go.,

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

  • The air was so damnably still that the boundary between fog and not-fog was as sharp as a saber's edge.

    The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989

  • With the saber's edge, Michael cut away the bandages beneath the sling which braced Prokopiev's dislocation, keeping the right arm bound to the right side at the upper arm, the forearm slung.

    The Arsenal Ahern, Jerry 1988

  • That made four points -- five, if he counted the signature as extra verification of the saber's provenance.

    Zeta Exchange A Terran Empire story Ann Wilson

  • "I visited there a couple of years after Annexation, not long after they were granted the patent I suggested they try for, on the saber's controlled-length blade."

    Zeta Exchange A Terran Empire story Ann Wilson

  • Chapter Two Thaw on Olympus Bright spurs that add their roweled row To clanking saber's pride;

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • The mountain ridges piled against each other cut the blue sky like a saber's edge, and the forests on the slopes rising terrace above terrace burned in vivid colours painted by the brush of autumn.

    Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond 1890

  • Besides these, he added a mousetrap, a bow with quiver and arrows, and some left-over items which he carried in his hand: a corn-cutting sickle, a saber's sheath, and a shotgun barrel.

    Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) Karl Friedrich May 1877

  • Hugh Dagley of the American Legion said, "We do not think that $10 million is an excessive amount of money to spend on behalf of young people who are on the saber's edge."

    WISH TV 2009

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