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    1. At his side there hung a sabre the


    2. Sabre tooth tigers and all that


    3. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow--a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white


    4. everyone knew that snowy sabre cats were considerably more robust than their sandy counterparts


    5. No one could outrun a sabre cat; as stout as they were, their lumbering was treacherous


    6. “No more sabre cats… please no more sabre cats…” She muttered grimly, rising to her feet slowly


    7. As his head twisted to look at me, I stood up, the sabre held with the point directed at his


    8. I reversed my grip on the sabre and planted its point securely on his neck,


    9. to the inch hacksaw or sabre saw through the


    10. have to hacksaw or sabre saw this pipe out of

    11. I named him Sabre and took the wolfhound along on our dates, which Tet tolerated—barely


    12. To improve the survivability rate, the planners have come up with a new method, they call it Commando Sabre


    13. "Yes, Sir," the heavier of the two full colonel staffer said, "do you have any preferences for the other members of Commando Sabre?"


    14. "Commando Sabre is a program of out-country sorties to direct and control strike missions against enemy targets of opportunity


    15. "You will dispatch nightly summaries to our office, DOCB, with info copies to the 37th TFW at Phu Cat who has the action for Commando Sabre


    16. He recognized the message for what it was; a sneak R&R at Clark as a reward for his Commando Sabre missions


    17. Oh sh*t, I better do it before Raffe stabs me with his light sabre


    18. The sabre already in her sweaty palms glowed slightly, almost feeding from her stressed emotions


    19. She threw herself sideways into the door frame trying to bring her sabre to bear, the warrior’s first sword pierced her cloak, just missing her leg and burying itself deep into the door frame, her cloak was pinned to the wall


    20. Titus managed to evade the shield bash that followed, with a deft sideways roll retrieving Tress’s fallen sabre as he did so

    21. He looked down at the bloody sabre


    22. Tress’s skin tingled and itched, she freed a new blade that she had acquired in Croweheim, its steel looked dull compared to her previous sabre


    23. Unseen by human eyes Tress’s sabre had left an unmistakeable magical signature on Anak’s wound; this signature now enabled Tamar to track the old weasel’s movements in his dream-like state


    24. Tress’s old sabre was wrapped and strapped to his back, being too valuable to be left with the saddlebags and horses above


    25. ‘Perhaps if I can clear all of this anger from my mind I could master this sabre and exact my vengeance


    26. When I picked up Tress’s sabre during the fight, its magic feeds on the blade-wielder’s emotions and ability or perhaps even state of mind and projects them at everyone around it


    27. Athene’s eye was attracted by the glint of steel in the moonlight as she spotted Tress’s sabre on the pony’s carcass


    28. Titus was surprised to see the sparkling point of a silver sabre unexpectedly jutting from the beast’s belly


    29. Remembering the early conversation about the sabre she focused on her genuine fear of the moment that made her stomach twitch and her legs wobble


    30. Gasping for air and nursing a sprained neck, Titus ploughed his way out of the snowdrift to find Athene standing over him with a shining sabre in her hand

    31. Titus, rubbed his equally full stomach, then half-limped, half-waddled over to his horse and pulled free the naked blade of the magic sabre and began a speech, evading eye contact with Athene as he did so


    32. He drove the sabre deep into the thick oak floor with both hands, half its blade sank into the floor, close to the bottom of the bed


    33. Athene’s foot edged out of the bottom of the bed, her toes stretching out to touch the cold hilt of the embedded sabre


    34. Focusing her mind she deliberately drifted back to some of her more wild and passionate nights of times long gone by, she felt the sabre warm to the touch of her foot


    35. She found a nice raised mound that would put her inline with the rider, then drew her replacement sabre and holding on tight to her repaired cloak, she waited


    36. Through mud-encrusted eyes, the man looked up at the dominating female, focusing on the sabre that flicked his sword away and then extended down to touch his throat


    37. Perhaps the magic of the sabre had in some way also affected her? She sunk her head into the pony’s neck and wiped away her tears in its thick fur


    38. Quickly removing his important possessions and the sabre from his horse, he removed the saddle and picked up his helmet, finally he whispered a last goodbye then he set the horse free


    39. She pulled her sabre free, arcing back her cloak and the nearest man fell instantly and silently with his windpipe cleanly severed


    40. Titus obliged, unwrapping the rags from the sabre and presenting the magician with the sabre’s handle

    41. With a snort he reluctantly passed the sabre back to Titus


    42. I think we will need to negotiate a new deal for the sabre Titus


    43. Immediately the sabre in Marcus’s hand extended to protect his master from the strike


    44. He had known that by handing Marcus the sabre, he would distract the man and gain a measure of advantage from the man’s inability to harness the sword’s magic


    45. The sabre had almost certainly been lost for centuries so it was unlikely that his opponent would know how to make use of its powers


    46. The unbreakable sabre of Sum swept out from the sprawled Marcus shattering the Sword Breaker that pinned him to the floor


    47. Growling in anger and with his arm now useless, the sabre fell from Marcus’s hand, in desperation he spat at the Su-Katii just before the sword-pommel and fist smashed his teeth from his open mouth


    48. ‘I think it more like, what from hell was that?’ replied Titus holding out Tress’s sabre to her


    49. ‘I think that it would be better if you were armed and it will be a lot better for both of us if you keep the sabre for now, besides your fear may actually work better for us


    50. The demon arched in pain as the sabre of Sum slashed deeply along its back, Athene’s blow had carved through its dark scales like butter









































    1. "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had only to come back, and that I had been recalling him for years, and that I remained by my fireside, with my hands on my knees, not knowing what to do, and that I was mad over it! You knew well, that you had but to return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew that well, and you said:


    1. We could see their rifles hanging down from the rear of their saddles encased in holsters and their scabbard sabres hanging down the front near their knees waiting to be drawn when they charged


    2. ” He drew one of the short sabres


    3. Slowly, Jacob’s hand migrated from my mouth to one of the sabres strapped


    4. The only thing they believe in is bloody horses charging across a field and onto glory with their sabres and lances flashing in the sun


    5. ” Our cavalry carried sabres; the Spaniards presented arms, and then marched in column, depositing their rifles in a heap


    6. There were sabres and daggers --


    7. Nadya hesitated, then as four Cossacks came thundering by, swinging from one side of their horses to the other, clenching glinting sabres in their teeth, she smiled and applauded enthusiastically


    8. In exchange, the 406th Fighter Wing will then be transferred from the United States with its F-86 SABREs and will take your place in Neubiberg


    9. Suddenly there appeared several men with sabres and another strong man


    10. Some of them did not even have the chance to pull their sabres

    11. They were all flashing sabres


    12. back and suddenly they rushed towards the other two men with sabres in their


    13. The two of them had imposing voices and the sabres in both their hands


    14. evade it but flashed his sabres on the top of Dan Laoda head and blood spilled out


    15. The Taihang Double Sabres had all died in that instant


    16. The only thing missing was light sabres, and for Alan to reveal he was actually a Jedi Knight


    17. The escort were two mounted patriots in red caps and tri-coloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, who rode one on either side of him


    18. A rude clattering of feet over the floor, and four rough men in red caps, armed with sabres and pistols, entered the room


    19. By the torchlight Dantes saw the glittering sabres and carbines of four gendarmes


    20. They exchange in amity the pass of knights of the red cross and fight duels with cavalry sabres: Wolfe Tone against Henry Grattan, Smith O'Brien against Daniel O'Connell, Michael Davitt against Isaac Butt, Justin M'Carthy against Parnell, Arthur Griffith against John Redmond, John O'Leary against Lear O'Johnny, Lord Edward Fitzgerald against Lord Gerald Fitzedward, The O'Donoghue of the Glens against The Glens of The O'Donoghue

    21. In the passages and on the staircases of the old palace Montero's troopers lounged about insolently, smoking and making way for no one; the clanking of sabres and spurs resounded all over the building


    22. Everything about it was sacred, the graves of the men who had died for it, the battle fields, the torn flags, the crossed sabres in their halls, the


    23. He also became a billionaire, owner of the Buffalo Sabres, and philanthropic hero of Coudersport, Pennsylvania, where his business empire got started


    24. At nine o'clock, at the instant when the French army, ranged in echelons and set in motion in five columns, had deployed—the divisions in two lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on the horizon, the Emperor was touched, and twice exclaimed, "Magnificent! Magnificent!"


    25. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy heaving of the cruppers of horses amid the cannons and the flourish of trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses like the scales on the hydra


    26. They heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage breathing


    27. There ensued a most terrible silence; then, all at once, a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the crest, and casques, trumpets, and standards, and three thousand heads with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an earthquake


    28. The frightful 18th of June lives again; the false monumental hillock disappears, the lion vanishes in air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened dreamer beholds the flash of sabres, the gleam of bayonets, the flare of bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the ravines are empurpled, and the trees quiver, and there is fury even in the clouds and in the shadows; all those terrible heights, Hougomont, Mont-SaintJean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other


    29. On each side marched a double hedge of guards of infamous aspect, wearing threecornered hats, like the soldiers under the Directory, shabby, covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost hanging in rags, with red epaulets, yellow shoulder belts, short sabres, muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards


    30. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column

    31. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving were to be heard there


    32. Does the soldier detest the Turk whom he fights? Not in the least! yet he sabres him, hacks him to pieces, kills him


    33. Eight soldiers dismounted quickly, their spurs and sabres catching awkwardly


    34. When the crew of the Bee, one of the schooners which was chartered by the Leander, refused to go in her, a number of officers from the ship, with Lewis at their head, came on board the Bee, and, after beating and cutting the men with sticks and sabres in the most brutal manner, dragged them on board the Leander, put them in irons under a strong guard, and kept them there until the moment of sailing, when they were sent on board the Bee, with orders to keep near and to leeward of the ship


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    Synonyms for "sabre"

    cavalry sword saber sabre sword foil blade

    "sabre" definitions

    a fencing sword with a v-shaped blade and a slightly curved handle


    a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back


    cut or injure with a saber


    kill with a saber