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- noun Obsolete spelling of
sword .
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Examples
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But all this, I say, she did by the spirituall sworde, that is, by the worde of God, and not by any temporall regiment or authoritie, whiche she did vsurpe ouer Israel.
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. 1514-1572 1878
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But all this, I say, she did by the spirituall sworde, that is, by the worde of God, and not by any temporall regiment or authoritie, whiche she did vsurpe ouer Israel.
The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women John Knox 1874
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And placing their captiues in the forefront of the battell, if they fight not couragiously, they put them to the sworde.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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At last, breaking open the gates of the citie, they entred, and putting the Emperour, with many other to the sworde, they tooke possession thereof and conueighed away the golde, siluer, and all the riches therein.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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The heads of their arrowes are exceedingly sharpe cutting both wayes like a two edged sworde, and they alwaies carie a file in their quiuers to whet their arrowheads.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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And as one of them was striking with his drawen sworde, at the neck of Sir Martine, hee said vnto them: Sirs, you doe vnwisely in that you take not off my garment before it bee defiled with blood.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then he put the sworde into the fire till it was warme, and so thrust it into the slitte of his shirte and thrust it through his bodie, as I thought, in at his nauill and out at his fundament: the poynt beeing out of his shirt behind, I layde my finger vpon it, then hee pulled out the sworde and sate downe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Iuliers, with other Princes and great chiualrie came downe, and giuing charge vpon the Prussians, put three thousand of them to the edge of the sworde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then hee tooke a sworde of a cubite and a spanne long, (I did not mete it my selfe) and put it into his bellie halfeway and sometime lesse, but no wounde was to bee seene, (they continuing in their sweete song still).
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The foureteenth was Warnerus ab Orsele, whome a certaine knight of the Order slewe with his sworde.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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