Turkish weapon

Usage examples of scimitar.

Where Xing, Thad and the Arachnos had been, there hovered a group of small things, each like a cross between a scimitar and a wasp.

He drew his jewel-encrusted scimitar and stormed to where Asteria crouched in terror and fury.

He girded on his scimitar and looked out toward those accursed Lasithi mountains.

Instantly the room was full six feet up the wall of a tangle and mass of weapons, swords, spears, arrows, tomahawks, fowling pieces, blunderbusses, pistols, revolvers, scimitars, kreeses every kind of weapon you can think of and the four children wedged in among all these weapons of death hardly dared to breathe.

The army consisted of a magnificent band that also did duty on the stage, where it was quite pleasant to see the worthy fellows marching in Turkish dresses with rouge on and wooden scimitars, or as Roman warriors with ophicleides and trombones--to see them again, I say, at night, after one had listened to them all the morning in the Aurelius Platz, where they performed opposite the cafe where we breakfasted.

Fatma, a cobra which was really an iron spring -- it throbbed and jumped and burred on the Moorish coffee table if you touched it, a Rif saddle, a hubble-bubble, scimitars and daggers on the walls.

Knives of every size, brief poinards, broadswords, even elaborate scimitars and snees, bristled among them.

As he walked through the Vier Marchi with his officers, there flashed before his eyes the scene of sixteen years ago, when, through the grime and havoc of battle, he had run to save Guida from the scimitar of the garish Turk.

As he sprinted across the wide kitchen, he saw the Nubian, Yair, draw his scimitar and launch himself into the fray.

Flee into the woods, at such times, or earlier, before the mighty scimitar or yataghan leaps from its scabbard.

He arced the scimitar into the neck of a burly Automaton, then pivoted to slice his blade into the head of a deranged woman.

The barghest recognized the explosive rage in this drow and had felt the sharp bite of the scimitar.

With a sharp snap the rusty scimitar broke, leaving her to stare in disbelief at the bladeless hilt in her hands.

As a colonel in the bodyguard of Bleyn the Pious, he had taken a scimitar blow in the face.

Severgard more tightly, she ran toward him as he brandished his scimitar in defiance.