sworders

The Sultan hath despatched forty sworders against you and I counsel you to flee ere harm can hurt you.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Round these gates they set their sworders, hoping thence to drive us back

Stories in Verse Henry Abbey

To brawl with sworders vile, wretches who stab for hire!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

I cried, plunging in wild excitement into the midst of the hostile sworders.

For The Admiral W.J. Marx

Suddenly she came in on the two sworders with a scared, transfigured face.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

` ` And if your Honor, '' concluded this excellent but somewhat prosy old gentleman, ` ` shall see fit to persist in bringing these mercenary sworders and musketeers into our quiet streets, not on our heads be the responsibility.

Legends of the Province House 1837

If he can take France by himself, the devil's in 't if he don't repulse the invaders, when backed by those celebrated sworders -- those boys of the blade, the Imperial Guard, and the old and new army.

Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

We gather, indeed, from his record, that he was not an idle on-looker in the time of England's great struggle for freedom, but a soldier of the Parliament, in his young years, among the praying sworders and psalm-singing pikemen, the Greathearts and Holdfasts whom he has immortalized in his allegory; but the only allusion which he makes to this portion of his experience is by way of illustration of the goodness of God in preserving him on occasions of peril.

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

We gather, indeed, from his record, that he was not an idle on-looker in the time of England's great struggle for freedom, but a soldier of the Parliament, in his young years, among the praying sworders and psalm-singing pikemen, the Greathearts and Holdfasts whom he has immortalized in his allegory; but the only allusion which he makes to this portion of his experience is by way of illustration of the goodness of God in preserving him on occasions of peril.

Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

We gather, indeed, from his record, that he was not an idle on-looker in the time of England's great struggle for freedom, but a soldier of the Parliament, in his young years, among the praying sworders and psalm-singing pikemen, the Greathearts and Holdfasts whom he has immortalized in his allegory; but the only allusion which he makes to this portion of his experience is by way of illustration of the goodness of God in preserving him on occasions of peril.

Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849