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- adjective Alternative spelling of
swordbearing .
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Examples
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As if these exchanges were not preposterous enough, Chávez then took advantage of the occasion to award Gadhafi the "Orden del Libertador," Venezuela's highest civilian decoration, and presented the Libyan leader with a replica of Simon Bolívar's sword to see a video of the sword-bearing ceremony, click here.
Nikolas Kozloff: WikiLeaks Drags Libya and Venezuela Through the Mud Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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Rather than a brainiac grey-beard, we should think of him as his contemporaries knew him: a bustling, energetic, wine-swilling, man-loving, vigorous, pug-nosed, sword-bearing war-veteran: a citizen of the world, a man of the streets.
Socrates ? a man for our times Bettany Hughes 2010
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Jesus had been gone for nearly forty years, and all hell was breaking loose on Christians and Christianity—not so much by resistant Jews but by an entire imperial structure with sword-bearing armies and coliseums full of Roman citizens eager to see the Christians fed to wild beasts and otherwise tortured in a paid public forum.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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Jesus had been gone for nearly forty years, and all hell was breaking loose on Christians and Christianity—not so much by resistant Jews but by an entire imperial structure with sword-bearing armies and coliseums full of Roman citizens eager to see the Christians fed to wild beasts and otherwise tortured in a paid public forum.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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Jesus had been gone for nearly forty years, and all hell was breaking loose on Christians and Christianity—not so much by resistant Jews but by an entire imperial structure with sword-bearing armies and coliseums full of Roman citizens eager to see the Christians fed to wild beasts and otherwise tortured in a paid public forum.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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Jesus had been gone for nearly forty years, and all hell was breaking loose on Christians and Christianity—not so much by resistant Jews but by an entire imperial structure with sword-bearing armies and coliseums full of Roman citizens eager to see the Christians fed to wild beasts and otherwise tortured in a paid public forum.
God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010
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These umbrellas combine a symbol of gentlemanly refinement-the full-sized, black umbrella-with an element from more manly sword-bearing times.
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Judges in black robes may not have the “power of the sword” in the sense that the are included in a chain of command, but they order bailiffs around, and the sword-bearing organizations jump to follow their decisions.
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Yesterday she posted a photo in which she appeared to be walking down a tapestry-lined corridor past a row of sword-bearing ceremonial guards.
Society and Style Fair, Vanity 2009
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These umbrellas combine a symbol of gentlemanly refinement-the full-sized, black umbrella-with an element from more manly sword-bearing times.
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