What is "swashbuckling"

Usage examples of "swashbuckling".

Ludmilla had, reluctantly, left behind the swashbuckling lady-pirate outfit she had worn on Melos and was now dressed in a demure belted gown, with all weapons tucked out of sight.

Barcelona, where Diego kept busy with his classes, La Justicia, the taverns where he met with other students, and his swashbuckling adventures, which was his romantic way of referring to his escapades.

Talking sense to a swashbuckling Talaxian was tougher than frightening a Vulcan.

The one problem with swashbuckling as a profession was the tremendous demand placed upon the physical body.

Tyndall was, for his rather swashbuckling ways disturbed her, even his charm caused her disquiet, but her inclination was to trust him.

Earlier, she had dismissed tales of damsels in distress as mere feminine nonsense, but the swashbuckling young man made it seem so real.

He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat and was tormented chronically by prolonged seizures of apprehension.

He has an invincible hatred of the fighting, hunting, swashbuckling side of life, symbolized in all his early books by a violent propaganda against horses.

Eggy seemed to be doing his best to resemble a big wheel among the in-crowd of Attila the Hun while even Parkwood had affected a certain swashbuckling air with silk scarves, a Panama hat and an automag hanging from his belt.

It was an enterprising, swashbuckling sort of mouth, the mouth of one who would lead forlorn hopes with a jest or plot whimsically lawless conspiracies against convention.

He enjoyed rousing, swashbuckling adventures on planets of other stars.

By the time Bernice was ascending the slope toward the low mesa across which was the canyon trail leading up Cholla Chica, she was wishing she might have the opportunity of seeing this swashbuckling bandit chief - if only for a few moments.

Along with his other talents, the swashbuckling caravaneer was soon fluently profane in the Arshaum tongue.

Under a host of pen names Kuttner wrote every imaginable kind of science fiction, from swashbuckling space adventures to wild farces to moody fantasy pieces.

Instead, it was to be a novel -- a romantic, swashbuckling novel of the kind popular before the war, when there were still publishing houses and people with leisure to devote to escape mechanisms.