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Definition of Broadswords
1. broadsword [n] - See also: broadsword
Lexicographical Neighbors of Broadswords
Literary usage of Broadswords
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"Now there's peace on the shore, now there's Oh! the broadswords of old Scotland!
... Oh ! the broadswords, &c. Tea a place with the fallen the living shall ..."
2. The fireside encyclopaedia of poetry: Comprising the best poems of the most by Henry Troth Coates, Rea (1881)
"THE broadswords OF SCOTLAND. Now there's peace on the shore, now there's calm on
... And oh, the old Scottish broadswords ! Though he died not, like him, ..."
3. The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy by Caroline Ticknor, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Richard Stockton (1901)
"THE broadswords OP SCOTLAND. Now there's peace on the shore, ... Oh the broadswords
of old Scotland I And oh, the old Scottish broadswords I Old Sir Ralph ..."
4. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1882)
"And oh, the old Scottish broadswords ! Old Sir Ralph Abercromby, the good and
the brave — Let him flee from our board, let him sleep with the slave, ..."
5. A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans by James Browne (1851)
"Departure of the 42d for America—Disembarks In Stalen island— Battle of Brooklyn,
mo— broadswords and ..."
6. A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets by William Cullen Bryant (1874)
"0 the broadswords of old Scotland I And 0 Ike old Scottish broadswords f Old Sir
Ralph Abercromby, the good and the brave, — Let him flee from our board, ..."
7. A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans by James Browne (1843)
"Departure of the 42d for America—Disembarks in Staten island—Battle of Brooklyn,
1776—broadswords aud pistols laid aside—Skirmish near New York—White ..."
8. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1856)
"Oh I the broadswords, Ac. " Then sacred to each, ... Montrose, and Dundee, Oh !
the broadswords of old Scotland, And oh I the old Scottish ..."
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