smallswords

Thus the deliberate use of smallswords, which might merely wound, rather than the more lethal broadsword or pistols.

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At his side hung the latest rage, one of the new smallswords, this one sporting a golden hilt.

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But the conflict, whatever the major's wariness, could not be long protracted, for canes of this sort are tiring to the arm, unlike smallswords; he was still on the defensive when the student assailed him with a shower of blows which taxed all his skill and nerve, and the strength of the staff which he had borrowed from his foe.

The Son of Clemenceau Alexandre Dumas fils 1859