scimetar

I am Jabaster, a lieutenant of the Lord; this scimetar is my commission.

Chapter 7 - Part VII 1822

The sight of our vessel brought them off in great numbers and at times we had as many as a hundred canoes about us, the largest holding perhaps a dozen, some armed with muskets, but the most with lances and forks pointed with stags 'antlers and a kind of scimetar made of whale-rib.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

African brandished at his head a scimetar three fingers broad.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

Round his neck there lay a heavy golden chain, and the little old bent sickle, which he cut grass with, and which hung in his waistband, had turned into a gorgeous scimetar, whose ivory hilt gleamed in the pale light like snow in moonlight.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

When we are apprised that some few of our middle-aged citizens, who sustained the stroke of that literary scimetar so long ago, still survive among us, I think we may argue from strong data for the salubrity of our climate.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

It is the boast of the Turks that they treat their slaves as though they were their children, yet their common name for them is "dogs," and for the merest trifles, their feet are bastinadoed to a jelly, or their heads clipped off with the scimetar.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

We read of a white silk mantle embroidered with gold lace; of buttons of precious stones; of a girdle, in which was carried a scimetar rich in gold and rubies; and of his wife and children being in similar state.

Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

It is the boast of the Turks that they treat their slaves as though they were their children, yet their common name for them is "dogs," and for the merest trifles, their feet are bastinadoed to a jelly, or their heads clipped off with the scimetar.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

'Few of them died of natural death, and the Turkish scimetar was perhaps frequently employed with justice amongst them.

Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson

The gleam of the waterfall cut like a scimetar on our sight, flashing through its narrow cleft, whilst the bleating of the "Bounding Deer" was louder and sweeter.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various