sword-hilt

Brydon waited with one hand on his sword-hilt in case the guards outside chose to investigate the mass exodus.

The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six xcpublishing 2009

He reached for the sword-hilt that was … not there — he had left it in the Great Hall.

The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Eight xcpublishing 2009

He stepped through cautiously with one hand on his sword-hilt and Toryn followed.

The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six xcpublishing 2009

A rhetorical question if ever I heard one, with the old death's-head glaring like Dragfoot the Hangman, and then he swung towards our group, hitching his sword-hilt out of the way and fumbling in his pants pocket.

THE NUMBERS 2010

There again, there's a line in Beowulf in which the Swedish king Ongentheow, slain in battle, has his sword-hilt the hilt is specifically mentioned, although in Seamus Heaney's translation it appears to be just the hilt and in Michael Alexander's it's a "hilted sword" - make of that what you will taken from him by his victorious enemies.

Staffordshire Hoard Carla 2009

She shook her sides and swayed her haunches, then put her hair on sword-hilt and went up to King Shahriyar, who embraced her as hospitable host embraceth guest, and threatened her in her ear with the taking of the sword; and she was even as saith of her the poet in these words: —

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I should see the sun flashing from his sword-hilt and the buckles on his shoes.

Amy Lowell greenintegerblog 2008

Nay, never fumble with your sword-hilt, but out with it like

Redgauntlet 2008

Also there were with the minister ten armed slaves who, seeing their master entreated after this fashion, laid hand on sword-hilt and would have bared blades and fallen on Nur al-Din to cut him down; but the merchants and bystanders said to them,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Don Guzman clapt his hand on his sword-hilt instantly.

Westward Ho! 2007