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Definition of Swords

1. sword [n] - See also: sword

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swords

Literary usage of Swords

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"It may be well to say here a few words on the proof of swords. ... Another test to which swords or daggers tave been subjected, and are now by some makers ..."

2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1879)
"THE subject of swords—their antiquity, their history, their uses, ... The most famous of the many swords of medieval poetry is that of King Arthur. ..."

3. The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments: Of Great Britain and by John Evans (1881)
"The sword is elsewhere said to have been found in a sandpit.t" In Scandinavia, however, bronze swords have not unfrequently been found with interments in ..."

4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE CROSSED swords. On seeing the swords of Col. Prescott and Capt. ... swords crossed that never met While nerve was in the hands that wielded them; ..."

5. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1873)
"INSCRIBED swords, or swords bearing on their blades inscriptions or dates, are of very rare occurrence, and have always commanded considerable attention. ..."

6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1894)
"THE swords OF WASHINGTON. By Col. THORNTON A. WASHINGTON, of Washington, ... These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the ..."

7. The poetical works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1827)
"OH FOR ТИК swords OF FORMER TIME! A IB—Name Unknown. ... Oh for the swords of former time! Oh for the men who bore them, When, arm'd for right, ..."

8. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"It may be well to say here a few words on the proof of swords. ... Another test to which swords or daggers tave been subjected, and are now by some makers ..."

9. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1879)
"THE subject of swords—their antiquity, their history, their uses, ... The most famous of the many swords of medieval poetry is that of King Arthur. ..."

10. The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments: Of Great Britain and by John Evans (1881)
"The sword is elsewhere said to have been found in a sandpit.t" In Scandinavia, however, bronze swords have not unfrequently been found with interments in ..."

11. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"THE CROSSED swords. On seeing the swords of Col. Prescott and Capt. ... swords crossed that never met While nerve was in the hands that wielded them; ..."

12. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1873)
"INSCRIBED swords, or swords bearing on their blades inscriptions or dates, are of very rare occurrence, and have always commanded considerable attention. ..."

13. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1894)
"THE swords OF WASHINGTON. By Col. THORNTON A. WASHINGTON, of Washington, ... These swords are accompanied with an injunction not to unsheath them for the ..."

14. The poetical works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1827)
"OH FOR ТИК swords OF FORMER TIME! A IB—Name Unknown. ... Oh for the swords of former time! Oh for the men who bore them, When, arm'd for right, ..."

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