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    1. scabbard for which was decorated with the most ornate scroll work


    2. He handed his brother’s blade to him and he slid it under his coat where its scabbard waited


    3. He took his ceremonial sword and slid it into its scabbard, turned and opened the door


    4. He reached over his dresser and pulled out a knife from the scabbard on his belt hanging nearby and slowly approached the bed


    5. as he pulled his sword free from its scabbard


    6. The flames twisted around the cherry-wood handle at his hip, slipping the blade from its leather scabbard


    7. But in this house, Lady Phyllis won’t stand for him dipping his sword in someone else’s scabbard


    8. On each of her swaying hips was a worn leather scabbard, but only one held a sword


    9. ” He nodded seriously and slipped the blade into the scabbard


    10. 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

    11. other short sword strapped next to the scabbard of the one now shaking in his left


    12. “This,” Jacob put the scabbard onto the two top pegs that held the sword


    13. His weapons were leaning against the side of the red quilted bed, his sword in its black scabbard, and his bow resting in its leather case


    14. They looked at swords at seven blacksmith stalls, finally choosing one in a crimson scabbard worked with golden stars


    15. He then stood to gather his sword belt and blade in its dragon scrawled scabbard


    16. She did not pause one moment, putting her hands up over her head once it was settled, allowing Leland to wrap the belt and scabbard around her waist, buckling it into position


    17. Laura slid her sword into her scabbard, pushing the escaped strands of auburn hair from her face with a distracted grimace


    18. ” He stooped and placed into my hand a sword sheathed in a scabbard


    19. He put the knife back in the scabbard at his side and took a step towards her


    20. “What has…” she began to say, and broke off when Maggie lifted her skirt to reveal the end of a leather scabbard

    21. The hilt of a matching two-handed sword was seen over his left shoulder, the tip of the scabbard almost touching the ground by his right foot


    22. The scabbard was hinged along it’s length and hold closed by clever springs around the hinges, like Yazadril’s, and the sword was sheathed by fitting the edge of the blade near the crossguard into a notch between the two halves of the sheath at the top, then sliding the blade sideways until it nested home between the two halves and was held firmly by the spring pressure


    23. It was the only truly practical scabbard design for a sword with a blade-length longer than it’s wielder’s arm span


    24. ” Yazadril laughed as he retrieved his scabbard and headed up the stairs


    25. Mark wore gleaming gold-plated plate-over-mail armor with white accents and a white cape, and GrimFang hung across his back, it’s scabbard newly-white


    26. Kragorram wore the most impressive sword any there had ever seen, sheathed in a gold and white scabbard along his left side, belted in two places with gold chain as thick as Mark’s leg


    27. It made a hissing sound as it left the scabbard, causing those closest to him to wince and take a step back


    28. made a hissing sound as it left the scabbard, causing those closest to him to wince and take a


    29. Nuuke shoved the Bojite blade back into its scabbard and


    30. He laid his pike on the ground and unbuckled the stiff leather belt that held the sword and scabbard

    31. The drill involved the student kneeling on the ground, sword in its scabbard, waiting for the blow to be dealt


    32. With impeccable timing, the Su-Katii caught the youngsters arm just as the blade tip was free of its scabbard, carrying his momentum forwards, he drove the freshly released sword backwards into the young man’s stomach


    33. Marcus tapped the iron-bound chest with his dagger before returning it to its scabbard, inviting Titus to explore its contents


    34. Minutes later a sharp knife in a soft leather scabbard was strapped to Leon’s upper arm, and he was shod with soft but strong leather sandals with a loop for the big toe and a strap round the ankle—the next best thing to bare feet


    35. He was clad in black mesh-mail, and the only glitter about him was the broad gold buckle of the belt which supported his sword in its worn leather scabbard


    36. The fisherman loosened his knife in its scabbard


    37. He snatched at the curved sword lying in its ornate scabbard on the table, and then checked the movement


    38. The broad Bakhariot girdle that supported his knife in its ornamented scabbard would have matched the robes of a prince, and there was a glint of fine Turanian mail under his shirt


    39. The Cimmerian had not drawn his long knife, but his left hand grasped the scabbard, jutting the hilt suggestively forward


    40. Neither made any comment, but Conan loosened his knife in his scabbard

    41. The short sword still in its scabbard seemed to indicate that he had been struck down without a chance to fight for his life


    42. I told her so and she ignored me, drawing her blade free from its scabbard


    43. Conan's hand instinctively sought his belt, only to encounter an empty scabbard


    44. He transferred his sword from his teeth to its scabbard, spitting blood – for the edge had cut his lips in that fierce fight with the river—and turned his attention to the broken roof


    45. Over all they put the silken surcoat with the royal lion worked in gold upon the breast, and they girt him with a broad gold-buckled belt which supported a jewel-hilted broadsword in a cloth-of-gold scabbard


    46. There was blood on his hand, blood clotted about the mouth of his scabbard, for he had sheathed his blade without cleansing it


    47. His sword lay near him, still in its scabbard


    48. Conan laughed and slapped his sword home in its scabbard


    49. man, who then held out the scabbard


    50. He placed the sword in its scabbard and set it down on his mother's bed










































    1. The surviving members were joined though by Simon Rufus, Kin Slayer proudly scabbarded at his side; Ceridwen Queen of the Elves; Dia son of Din son of Dane, King beneath the Mountain; Gamyon Regent of Tamarlan; and Lord Velacourt representing the City States


    2. They carried neither shield nor spear, but wore swords scabbarded over tabards bearing the white and red Terraroja arms


    1. “Found em," she said, standing up, a pair of worn scabbards in her hands


    2. Sticking out of the scabbards were a pair of silver, leaf shaped cross guards fixed to leather wrapped cherry wood handles


    3. Their Swords of Light came slashing out of their scabbards


    4. ” his left hand flew to the brown leather scabbards strapped to his waist


    5. two scabbards of similar shape to the bigger one, but with blades only as long as my forearm,


    6. Their swords, long and sharp, rested in black scabbards


    7. The scabbards were plain and black, mounted in the buke-zukuri or katana


    8. She would never disobey me, so she slowly lifted her arms and slid the swords into their scabbards against her back


    9. � The Germans were not expecting that desperate act from the British and were caught with their own bayonets still in their scabbards


    10. She put on her Portuguese leather sword belt, with its scabbards and pouches, then slung her personal equipment pouch before slipping both of her pistols in her belt and grabbing her nagemaki pole arm

    11. She then started to take off her dress, soon revealing a pair of short knife scabbards strapped under her breasts, where she could easily grab the blades through her dress’ cleavage


    12. Two more knife scabbards, one of them empty, were strapped to the outside of her upper legs


    13. Throughout the island of Krull every magical activity failed as all the available mana in the area was sucked into the cloud, which was already a quarter of a mile high and streaming out into mind-curdling shapes; hydrophobes on their seaskimming lenses crashed screaming into the waves, magic potions turned to mere impure water in their phials, magic swords melted and dripped from their scabbards


    14. In a recess was a kind of divan, surmounted with a stand of Arabian swords in silver scabbards, and the handles resplendent with gems; from the ceiling hung a lamp of Venetian glass, of beautiful shape and color, while the feet rested on a Turkey carpet, in which they sunk to the instep; tapestry hung before the door by which Franz had entered, and also in front of another door, leading into a second apartment which seemed to be brilliantly illuminated


    15. Burke's! outflings my lord Stephen, giving the cry, and a tag and bobtail of all them after, cockerel, jackanapes, welsher, pilldoctor, punctual Bloom at heels with a universal grabbing at headgear, ashplants, bilbos, Panama hats and scabbards, Zermatt alpenstocks and what not


    16. Then, after a small body of men had marched past escorting four or five figures which walked in advance, with a jingle of steel scabbards, he felt a tug at his arms, and was ordered to come along


    17. It was too late; his officers had rushed in tumultuously, in a great clatter of scabbards, clamouring, with astonishment and wonder


    18. rattling in scabbards and a harsh voice crying a command: “Dismount!” Swiftly she bent


    19. The command to form up rang out and the sabers whizzed as they were drawn from their scabbards


    20. The men who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!" The dragoons advanced at a walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air of gloomy expectation

    21. In the pasturage along the road the wild oat heads were just clearing their scabbards


    22. In good time, though, to his great delight, the three salt-sea warriors would rise and depart; to his credulous, fable-mongering ears, all their martial bones jingling in them at every step, like Moorish scimetars in scabbards


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    Synonyms for "scabbard"

    scabbard quiver

    "scabbard" definitions

    a sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet