What is "scimetar"

Usage examples of "scimetar".

Night, the swift-walking darkness of the nights of the south, came suddenly upon the combatants: the casques of the one party, and the turbans of the other, were scarce perceptible, to guide the scimetar, or to serve as an aim for the arquebus.

When we are apprised that some few of our middle-aged citizens, who sustained the stroke of that literary scimetar so long ago, still survive among us, I think we may argue from strong data for the salubrity of our climate.

TN-13 248 scimetar should read scimitar TN-14 251 Xibilha should read Xibalba TN-15 258 supersitions should read superstitions TN-16 278 drunkeness should read drunkenness TN-17 294 fees should read frees or feeds?

The glittering scimetar of this Saracenic metaphysician flashes swift and sharp, but he fights the air with weapons of air.

That splendor came, in a red blaze of triumph the Sun rose, pouring a shower of beamy brilliancy over the white vastness of the heights covered with perpetual snow,--jagged peaks, sharp as scimetars and sparkling with ice, caught fire, and seemed to melt away in an absorbing sea of radiance, .

Here among the massively carved pillars which looked like straight, tall, frosted trunks of trees, were assembled hundreds of men young and old,--evident aristocrats and nobles of high degree, to judge from the magnificence of their costumes, while in and out their brilliant ranks glided little pages in crimson and blue,--black slaves, semi-nude or clothed in vivid colors,--court officials with jewelled badges and insignias of authority,-- military guards clad in steel armor and carrying short, drawn scimetars,--all talking, laughing, gesticulating and elbowing one another as they moved to and fro,--and so thickly were they pressed together that at first sight it seemed impossible to penetrate through so dense a crowd: but no sooner did Sah-luma appear, than they all fell back in orderly rows, thus making an open avenue-like space for his admittance.