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  • noun Plural form of swordsman.

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Examples

  • As the movie opens, a group of expert Wah Mountain swordsmen led by the easygoing but hard-drinking womanizer Ling Wu Chung (Jet Li) has grown weary of war and constant bloodshed.

    Kung Fu Night! Double Feature: The Swordsman II and Chocolate 2009

  • As the movie opens, a group of expert Wah Mountain swordsmen led by the easygoing but hard-drinking womanizer Ling Wu Chung (Jet Li) has grown weary of war and constant bloodshed.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Templars, who bear a name that recalls the swordsmen of Japan ... and whose uniform you yourself are wearing.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • Tell me about these samurai, who remind me of Plato's guardians, who look like Knights Templars, who bear a name that recalls the swordsmen of Japan ... and whose uniform you yourself are wearing.

    A Modern Utopia 1906

  • Tell me about these Samurai, who remind me of Plato's guardians, who look like Knight Templars, who bear a name that recalls the swordsmen of Japan.

    First and Last Things 1906

  • But the comedy of Bessus and his two swordsmen, which is fresh and vivid even after Bobadil and Parolles (I do not say Falstaff, because I hold it a vulgar error to consider Falstaff as really a coward at all), is perhaps more generally interesting.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • I always wondered why they called notorious playboys, "swordsmen".

    "That's what we do in WI; beer, cheese, Harleys, serial killers, and crazy." Ann Althouse 2007

  • I just checked the Wikipedia and didn't see anything about "swordsmen" and

    Kung Fu Cinema 2009

  • Anyone like yourself who has no interest in the subject could quickly dismiss the book, whiler others who may be interested in Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, swordsmen, cowboys and magicians, lost cities and giant airships, could pick it up.

    Book Cover Smackdown! 'Ender's Game' vs. 'Crossovers 2' vs. 'The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard' 2010

  • The two swordsmen, prompted by their respective patron wizards Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes, encounter The Destroyers, alien merchants who charm customers into trading lots of money for literal garbage.

    REVIEW: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories edited by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan 2010

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