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Caliburn

Excalibur \Ex*cal"i*bur\, n. The name of King Arthur's mythical sword. [Written also Excalibar, Excalibor, Escalibar, and Caliburn.]
--Tennyson.

Usage examples of "caliburn".

It would have been better had you returned Caliburn to the lady who loaned it.

She is probably jealous that I have aided Arthur and she is surely enraged at the loss of Caliburn, which was due her by the terms of the loan.

Where he had been laid with Caliburn, his famed sword, fast hi his grip, Myrdhinn would not say, except that he was hi a secure spot not to be found by man until the tune was come for the waking of him.

Then Arthur will wake, make himself known and with Caliburn carry carnage into the lands of Britain’s enemies.

He had taken off his sword-belt, and the great sword Caliburn hung in its sheath on the wall beyond the bed.

And all around horse and King, like a shield of impenetrable light, whirled the flashing blade of the great sword that was mine and his: Caliburn, the King's sword of Britain.

With the slither and whine of metal, Caliburn caught the blade and flung it wider, then Arthur drove the great stallion in and killed Red with a blow through the heart.

Before she came south she had got some northern smith to make a copy of Caliburn, and while she was here in Camelot she managed to get Accolon to exchange this for the sword itself.

The great Artorius, against whom no one could stand in battle, the magnificent Caliburn shining in the sunlight like living flame as he cut down foes who could not stand against the sword's power .

Glastenning Tor, whose smiths fashion fine Damascus steel such as my Caliburn, is a rich prize for men like Aelle.

Covianna slipped the lovingly forged blade from the scabbard, letting Caliburn itself drop to the bed again amidst the riot of silks, furs, and kashmir wool imported from far Constantinople.

The power of Caliburn was not in the Damascus pattern-welding so coveted by wealthy, high-ranking officers, but in the sheath—and Covianna intended to remain in possession of that for a long time to come.

Do you know how Caliburn was quenched, to give it that wondrously fine temper?

Girt with Caliburn, a most excellent sword, and fabricated in the isle of Avalon, he graces his right hand with the lance named Ron.

After a severe conflict, Arthur, calling on the name of the Virgin, rushes into the midst of his enemies, and destroys multitudes of them with the formidable Caliburn, and puts the rest to flight.