sabring

Kathryn Borel did this using what looks like a regular knife, but apparently a ‘champagne sword’ exists specifically for the purpose of sabring a champagne bottle.

The art of opening a champagne bottle with a sabre « One Size Fits One 2009

Even there, I noticed her finger tapping on the balcony as we looked down at the Pathans sabring away - damned active, dangerous lads they looked, too - but in a little while she began to take notice, talking about the swordplay and applauding the hits, and then she. glanced sidelong at me, and says:

Fiancée 2010

My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear.

Fiancée 2010

For the more I thought about it, the more certain I became that she'd fight it out, in person, when our infantry fought their way hand-to-hand into her palace - it was easy, after Lucknow, to imagine bloody corpses on that quilted Chinese carpet, and the mirrors shattered by shot, and yelling looters smashing and tearing in those priceless apartments, sabring and bayoneting everything that stood in their way.

Fiancée 2010

Although the Jedi have their spiritual side, to be sure, they are warriors, quick on the draw, cavalierly light sabring anyone who blocks their path.

Billy Kimball: Sith Happens: Two Georges With Dreams of Empire 2008

Bedawi clans and sub-tribes always combine against stranger families; but when there is no foreign “war,” they amuse themselves with pilling and plundering, sabring and shooting one another.

The Land of Midian 2003

The French skirmishers were running in terror from him, fleeing like game from the beaters, and in a moment he would order the full gallop and he imagined the thrill of breaking through the enemy lines, then sabring the gunners and pouncing on the French baggage.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

Behind them were the blue puggarees and white pants of the Bengali Irregulars, and before the Sikhs knew what was up Joe was rising in his stirrups, waving his sabre, and the 3rd Lights were sweeping down the rear of the gun positions, brushing aside the supporting infantry, sabring and riding down everything in their path.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

The horsemen careered down the slope, splitting the French survivors, sabring the last gunners who had stayed at their weapons, and then they saw a reserve Battalion of the Guard formed into square on the enemy ridge.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

Even there, I noticed her finger tapping on the balcony as we looked down at the Pathans sabring away - damned active, dangerous lads they looked, too - but in a little while she began to take notice, talking about the swordplay and applauding the hits, and then she. glanced sidelong at me, and says:

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975