What is "yataghan"

Usage examples of "yataghan".

She walked over to the torn lace curtain which only partly screened the collection of which the yataghan formed an item, as though to indicate that she had no further interest in the murder.

Obviously relieved to have someone other than Dame Beatrice to deal with, the bland proprietor drew aside the curtain, took up the yataghan and handed it over.

I should like you to take your yataghan to Weston Pipers, tell Niobe Nutley where it was purchased, but do not, of course, mention that I was with you when you bought it, and ask her whether it has a history.

Pay her a visit by all means, but take your friend the yataghan with you and be wary.

She unwrapped the yataghan, drew it from its sheath and flourished the cleaned and polished blade.

Niobe, emitting something which might be classed as a laugh, but still eyeing the yataghan nervously.

Laura put down the yataghan, but kept it, still unsheathed, under her hand.

Then she stood up, picked up her naked yataghan and moved a little way off from the desk, indicating, with a wave of the hand and a masterful jerk of the head, that Niobe, who was clearly in a state of ferment, was to approach.

They stopped on the Turkish yataghan that hung on the wall above the mummy casket.

He drove his poised right hand forward and despatched the yataghan straight for the rising form in black.

Mazda saw the yataghan sweep deep into the spinning mass of swirling black.

The Shadow had sprawled within the casket, the yataghan with his overthrown form.

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

At first the natives declared that their hens were mere old maids and all their cows unmarried, but our Tatar swore such a grand sonorous oath, and fingered the hilt of his yataghan with such persuasive touch, that the land soon flowed with milk, and mountains of eggs arose.

Claw Cape, bent in the form of a yataghan, tapered away nearly four miles to the southeast.