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Your heart and your sword are at the command of any pretty jade who squints at you!— Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
The man fell with a groan, and the sword was again passed through his body Said I not so?— The Phantom Ship
I fixed on that arm at first; the uniform attracted me; the sword is a noble weapon; and to ride is pleasanter than to walk.— For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
"And Damocles knew the sword was there, or there'd have been no point in it The two had rather lost track of his mood.— Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House
He says, “The car of the state floats on a precipice.” “This sword is the proudest day of my life.”--Henri Monnier, Grandeur et Décadence de Joseph Prudhomme (1852 Pruddoterie= (_Madame de la_).— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3

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