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Examples
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As never havocked scymitar made keenest at the curve.
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As soon as dawned the morn, the troops sprung to horse when they had donned their armour gear and drawn the scymitar and slung the spear.
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On his breast he wore a jewelled mirror and in his hand he bore a keen scymitar and his lance of Khalanj wood,446 the curious work of the Frank, weighing
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So he drew his scymitar and, cutting the two in four pieces with a single blow, left them on the carpet and returned presently to his camp without letting anyone know of what had happened.
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Then he bade bind me hand and foot, and put me into a chest and said to the sworder, “Take charge of this fellow, and go off with him to the waste lands about the city; then draw thy scymitar and slay him, and leave him to feed the beasts and birds.”
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Hardly had the negro made an end of his story, when King Rumzan struck off his head with his scymitar, saying, Praise to Allah who gave me life!
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Infidels and plied them with the keen edged scymitar, whilst their herald cried aloud, Up, and at the foes of the Faith, all ye who love the Prophet Elect, with hope of salvation on the Day of
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Thereupon the Infidels drove at the Moslems; the two hosts joined battle and the two lines were mingled, whilst the keen scymitar of
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Girt with his glances scymitar which seemed athirst for blood,
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He hent in hand an Indian scymitar and he rode a sable steed with a white blaze on brow, like a dirham; and he smote the horse with heel till he stood almost in the midst of the field when, signing to the Moslems, he cried out in fluent Arab speech
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