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Definition of Simitars
1. simitar [n] - See also: simitar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simitars
Literary usage of Simitars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Speaking of simitars, the merchant suspects that for the one in hand he would be
satisfied perhaps at two hundred and fifty piasters. ..."
2. A Royal Enchantress: The Romance of the Last Queen of the Berbers by Leo Charles Dessar (1900)
"... hurled her forces against the square, which bristled with spears and simitars.
Down went the front rank of the Moslems; down tumbled many horsemen. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1820)
"Embracing as friends and martyrs, they unsheathed their simitars, broke their
scabbards, and maintained an obstinate combat till they fell by each other's ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1900)
"... and from Malta, the grassy sward, and from Greece, Then sprang and struck with
simitars far sharper And two from Madagascar with forty stripes apiece; ..."
5. The Century by Bim Sherman (1899)
"... sprang down the sides of the gorge, yelling for death, swinging their simitars,
to kill more surely by hand, lest they should waste arrows on dead men. ..."
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