sword-cuts

The ranks of the enemy represent the latter, sword-cuts the former — a very persuasive mode of preaching.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Defensive armor they had none, save for a crude shield of hide-covered wood; many had worked bits of metal into their tangled manes as a slight protection against sword-cuts.

People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005

Taita worked during all the daylight hours, setting broken bones, drawing barbed arrowheads from the flesh with his golden spoons, stitching sword-cuts and in one case even trepanning a cracked, depressed skull that had received a blow from a hardwood war club.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001

As I mounted behind my captor, now my energetic defender, the crowd increased around us, the cries of 'Kill the Kafir' became more vehement, and, although we hurried on at a fast canter, it was with the utmost difficulty Gholam Moyun-ood-deen, although assisted by one or two friends or followers, could ward off and avoid the sword-cuts aimed at me, the rascals being afraid to fire lest they should kill my conductor.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

My eye wandered upward and rested upon the great chevrons resembling sword-cuts that seemed deep-hacked within the rounded arches of the

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

The bodies were, as usual, full of sword-cuts and spear-thrusts inflicted by the enemy before and after the victims had breathed their last.

Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

In its first Hungarian form the military busby was a cylindrical fur cap, having a "bag" of coloured cloth hanging from the top; the end of this bag was attached to the right shoulder as a defence against sword-cuts.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

"I shall stay here to practise sword-cuts and sword-thrusts," said the King's Son, "until four days before Midsummer's Day."

The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum 1926

When they saw him they began to moan and groan and when he looked them over he saw they were all covered with wounds -- with spear-thrusts and with sword-cuts.

The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926

Tommaso Parentucelli is like to be forgotten, for his glory is not written in sword-cuts or in any violated city, but in the forgotten pages of the humanists, the beautiful life of Vespasiano da Bisticci.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922