unscabbarded

At his belt there hung an old-fashioned, unscabbarded sabre with a blade as dark, thick and filthy as a pole-axe, a horse pistol, a small bone-handled knife with a curiously hooked blade and a wooden whistle.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

He had retrieved his straight, broad-bladed western sword, now hanging unscabbarded from his wide, thick leather belt.

Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

Unlike the Yellow Sect members, he carried a sword, unscabbarded in a simple leather harness.

The Fortress of the Pearl Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1989

Blue-armoured Tarkeshites with brilliant plumes of red, purple and white, long lances levelled, and gold-armoured Jharkorians, longswords already unscabbarded, galloped on the other side.

Storm Bringer Moorcock, Michael 1963

Blue-armoured Tarkeshites with brilliant plumes of red, purple and white, long lances levelled, and gold-armoured Jharkorians, longswords already unscabbarded, galloped on the other side.

Stormbringer Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1963

While swimming the sea-floods, sword-blade unscabbarded

Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

And alas, for the sword that swung then, unscabbarded, by each man's side and for the knee that never bent to any and for the fearless eyes that watched unblenched while the gods lamed each other with their lightnings in the thunder-shaken storm!

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

A grim chuckle followed the suggestion, and the soft wheep, wheep of unscabbarded knives followed the chuckle.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

One second -- only one -- for the next Peter had drawn himself up, and with a sweep of the sword which lay unscabbarded at his side, had shorn that arm off above the elbow, just where it projected from the panelling.

Fair Margaret Henry Rider Haggard 1890

She is adamant; a bright sword now first unscabbarded; no breath can hang about it.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819