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  • Rome conquered Europe and the near east at sword-point.

    Matthew Yglesias » Ever-Closer Union 2010

  • When our little heroine saves the brave nutcracker from meeting his end at the sword-point of a blustery Mouse King, the nutcracker — who in Mr. Ratmansky's plan is shown, by turns, as a wooden toy and a masked teenage boy — becomes a fresh-faced princeling.

    A Mouse in the House Robert Greskovic 2010

  • "That is true," says he, and the eye was like a sword-point.

    Fiancée 2010

  • And while authoritarian force might succeed for awhile forcing knees to bend at sword-point to the imaginary deity of randomness, once the peons figure out they don't have to play the game, their power vanishes into thin air.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • “In my time, taking a virgin meant one risked a sword-point wedding.”

    Deep Kiss Of Winter Kresley Cole 2009

  • England's barons forced John at sword-point to sign the Magna Carta, which also resulted in a civil war when he rejected it.

    Anthony D. Romero: Cutting the Cake for an Ancient Rule of Law 2008

  • Competing factions for the throne have tried to rule at sword-point.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • Competing factions for the throne have tried to rule at sword-point.

    Review of Mistress of the Art of Death, by Ariana Franklin 2007

  • The English had to hold their King at sword-point to get the right of Habeus Corpus some 800 years ago.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: October 20, 2006 2006

  • He drove his sword-point into a crack and pried carefully.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

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