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A word would send them leaping up on the poop in a storm of swords that would overwhelm even such a fightingman as the stranger looked to be.
The Pool Of The Black One Howard, Robert E. 1986
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His dark, scarred, almost sinister face was that of a fightingman, and his velvet garments could not conceal the hard, dangerous lines of his limbs.
The Hour Of The Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977
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Arsenals, there is a Horse-Guards, War-Office, Captain-General; persuasive Sergeants, with tap of drum, recruit in market-towns and villages; -- and, on the whole, I say, here is your actual drilled fightingman; here are your actual Ninety-thousand of such, ready to go into any quarter of the world and fight!
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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