Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweard
Literary usage of Sweard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"Skin; f rom sweard, Saxon. Often corrupted to sword, as when applied to the skin
of bacon, .... sweard ..."
2. The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical by Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland (1842)
"... doctrine that it shall nede of a sweard* to scrape it out clene. Tbe Lord God
of heaven, from whom al goodness doth come, vouchsafe to bring him and all ..."
3. Machiavelli by Niccolò Machiavelli (1905)
"... whiche made theim a lighte on foote, thei come with the sweard, and in their
orders to find them, and have no other difficultie, then to come nere to ..."
4. Machiavelli by Niccolò Machiavelli (1905)
"... whiche made theim a lighte on foote, thei come with the sweard, ... so that
thei maie reche them with the sweard, for that so sone as thei have gotten ..."
5. The Works of John Knox by John Knox, David Laing (1895)
"(said sche,) thei resisted not by the sweard ?" e^ jna(lam, had not gevin ...
apprehend the father, tack the sweard or other ..."
6. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"Skin; f rom sweard, Saxon. Often corrupted to sword, as when applied to the skin
of bacon, .... sweard ..."
7. The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical by Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland (1842)
"... doctrine that it shall nede of a sweard* to scrape it out clene. Tbe Lord God
of heaven, from whom al goodness doth come, vouchsafe to bring him and all ..."
8. Machiavelli by Niccolò Machiavelli (1905)
"... whiche made theim a lighte on foote, thei come with the sweard, and in their
orders to find them, and have no other difficultie, then to come nere to ..."
9. Machiavelli by Niccolò Machiavelli (1905)
"... whiche made theim a lighte on foote, thei come with the sweard, ... so that
thei maie reche them with the sweard, for that so sone as thei have gotten ..."
10. The Works of John Knox by John Knox, David Laing (1895)
"(said sche,) thei resisted not by the sweard ?" e^ jna(lam, had not gevin ...
apprehend the father, tack the sweard or other ..."
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