What is "brandishes"

Usage examples of "brandishes".

The palace house-post which thou sawest, that is his lance: and he brandishes this spear till its two ends meet, and he hurls a wilful cast of it when he pleases.

The midmost man brandishes that lance so that its edge-studs hardly stay therein, and he strikes the half thrice against his palm.

Guenes the count that spear from him doth seize, Brandishes it and twists it with such ease, That flown into the sky the flinders seem.

His spear in hand he brandishes and wields, Towards Carlun has turned the point of steel.

We'll use quiet electric motors: windmill nun brandishes wind mill scourge.

He brandishes it, and Pluto falls speechless, for several times Matern succeeds in shaking it at the sky.

In the smoke-filled bar, his head on the way to baldness directly under the ceiling light, he clutches his whisky glass, brandishes his tinkling drink, points with oft-painted Lenin finger at the future, and performs didactic plays for a theater-loving public.

High o'er the grass, hissing he rolls along, And brandishes by fits his forky tongue.

Straight, o'er the guilty ghost, the Fury shakes The sounding whip and brandishes her snakes, And the pale sinner, with her sisters, takes.

A rebellion that brandishes banners inscribed with bromides is not a very convincing nor very inspiring sight.

Both are concepts pertaining to intellectual bankruptcy: the first stands for the abdication of reason—the second, for that state of hysterical panic which brandishes a fist as its sole recourse.

I swear, Yossi, if Kissinger were standing where you are-" Natke draws his pistol, brandishes it, and grinds his teeth.