Neutral observers claim Waterside is equidistant from Swords and Malahide with a walk to either town centre taking around 50 minutes on average. |
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Swords needed leather grips, belts, and leather scabbards overlaid with hammered bronze leaf. |
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Swords and knives, especially, were made to be directly proportional to the size of the user. |
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The question master will be Stephen Swords and all support would be most appreciated. |
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Swords of the bronze age were characteristically short in blade length, heavy for their size, and with a relatively blunt cutting edge. |
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The suits are cups, coins, swords and batons, and each suit contains seven different cards. |
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Two Swords are crossed in inner and outer conflict today but the flowering lotus, a symbol of love, in the middle of the two swords brings peace and compromise. |
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Due for completion in February, Ridgewood is situated at Forrest Road in Swords and has a mix of two-bedroom townhouses, four-bedroom semis and four-bedroom detached houses. |
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Swords flash, the clang of sounds echoing painfully in tender ears. |
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For example, in ritual, swords or knives or wands or candles are often symbolically plunged into chalices. |
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Usually they practiced with wooden swords, but they also practiced with quarterstaffs. |
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Some were dueling away with wooden swords, and others were throwing javelins at targets. |
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On all sides, ignoring him, barbarian mercenaries brandished their javelins, bows, pikes, two-edged swords. |
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Lying at their feet were two new swords and a crossbow complete with a full quiver of arrows. |
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It was the later French adaptation which changed swords to spades, wands to clubs, cups to hearts, and coins to diamonds. |
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Last September, I started with the swords and I moved on to the wands, and then to the cups. |
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In her youth, Aleila was a wild and rambunctious youngster who could juggle, toss, swallow, and even lie on swords. |
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Its bronze ram could smash enemy ships and armed soldiers could leap aboard a foe's vessel in hand-to-hand combat with spears and swords. |
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The young king looked out upon the thousands of soldiers lined in ranks, the curved edges of their swords flashing in the morning light. |
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Officers were strutting around before their troops, waving swords and yowling, psyching them up. |
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Using the clear water from the pool, Mo Ye and Gan Jiang whetted swords on this stone to hone their cutting-edges. |
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All swords and rapiers used are blunt, but otherwise accurate replicas of surviving examples. |
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The fights are between foot soldiers fighting with swords, spears or axes fashioned out of rattan cane. |
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As soon as their swords parted, he struck him in the side with the flat of his blade. |
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Daggers en suite with wakizashis and katanas were accorded the same care in their manufacture and decoration as their companion swords. |
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The brutal killings, many of which were committed using knives and swords, had begun. |
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The creature's claws were as curved like scythes, and as long as long swords. |
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Her room is overflowing with tiaras, troll dolls, magical cards, toy castles, posters, crowns, swords, and all manner of fantasy knick-knacks. |
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Without being particularly inventive, it is still a passable excuse for the protagonists to go places, draw swords and engage in smart wordplay. |
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It houses thousands of weapons, including guns and ammunition, knives, knuckledusters, coshes, crossbows and swords. |
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Kim also enchanted his swords, giving them a keener edge and a hint of water to them. |
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In an increasingly impersonal age, swords provide the human touch which is so lacking in guns. |
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The guards laid about them, striking men and women with the flats of their swords. |
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With their swords and muskets raised the Yankee soldier began killing every confederate soldier in sight. |
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Around me were swords and arrows, lances and spears, weapons of all kinds, even ones I had never seen before. |
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Men of the armies fought with double-edged swords, battle-axes, lances, slings, and weapons of archery. |
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Suddenly, bishops called upon their pacifist communities to take up swords and defend the Empire. |
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He gave us his most valuable possessions, these swords, and we have never returned the favor. |
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In the fields outside of Darik, the pure sound of two clashing swords rang out. |
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For example, sheathing and unsheathing swords gets a nice, reverberating ring as the blade enters or exits the scabbard. |
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One jarring element was the sudden appearance of guns towards the end of the play, when previously swords were the order of the day. |
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When Corrigan opened the large French doors there was a large patio area with hundreds of swords lining the walls. |
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The fronds were stiffened by ice and arched over the trickle like a tunnel of swords at a wedding. |
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The booklet directs the attention of the young traveler to the superb decoration which masters applied to swords, arbalests, and arquebus. |
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They were carrying all sorts of weapons, including arrows, swords and axes. |
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The others followed suit, some drawing swords, others fitting arrows into yew longbows. |
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Nordic fighters armed with swords and battleaxes took to the streets, while Viking longships cruised on the River Ouse. |
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Upon his mighty paws, which resembled large, furry, human hands, were claws sharp as razors and unbreakable as the most finally crafted swords. |
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Another area where magical activity can fall foul of the law is the carrying of ritual knives and swords, for example the athame. |
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Many brought their own chalices, athames and swords so that the altar represented each of us. |
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Police sabers, cavalry sabers, European-type dress swords and other non-traditional blades are outside the scope of this discussion. |
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And at the same time, they lunged their swords into Vee's mother and sister. |
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Many Japanese flags and other articles like swords are sold on Internet auctions and at flea markets. |
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They also carried broad swords and maces to use when an enemy got in too close. |
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There were at least eight guards there, holding weapons from maces to swords to lances. |
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Bullets were scarce, however, so the guns quickly gave way to pikes, swords, kendo sticks, maces, and dirks. |
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The handful of remaining officers were vastly outnumbered by fighters wielding machetes, swords, slingshots, bows and arrows. |
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I wonder if she's also interested in knowing if there are knives in the home such as machetes or Samurai swords. |
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Rather, they wielded knives, machetes, and swords, necessitating close proximity to the victims. |
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All iron swords, mail axes and things would be in sealed and greased barrels below deck to try to stop them from rusting in the salt air. |
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In its center is disc within a smaller wreath of laurel which contains a torch between two swords saltirewise and flanked by two mullets. |
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The two swords crossed saltirewise represent both active and reserve forces and attest to eternal readiness. |
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I worried that the wait staff might pull out their samurai swords at any moment. |
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They knew this as well, so they taunted me with their sharp swords and barbed words. |
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His two swords were golden, and shaped like two dragons fangs, with many sharp barbs along its side. |
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Entering through the low door, they saw opposite them above a fireplace two swords sheathed in their scabbards, glittering in the gloom. |
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Two curved Elven swords, sheathed in scabbards of shining marble, leaned against the throne he sat upon. |
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If team sports and ball games are not your thing, the romance of swords, and bows and arrows may appeal. |
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In the middle of the well-worn floor stood two of their number, wielding blunted swords that had been scaled specifically to their size. |
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Up until this point almost all swords were heavy and required more strength than skill to maneuver. |
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Reproduction swords include basket hilts, mortuary half baskets, rapiers, traditional claymores, officers' broadswords and backswords. |
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Then all the horsemen assembled in the bailey were racing out beneath the low gap, swords drawn, wild cries of war on their lips. |
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His inventory can be stocked with a whole assortment of weapons like Mausers, swords, spear guns and machine guns. |
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Since I was a girl, it was more seemly to carry the swords on my back, and I was only happy to comply. |
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The styles of swords developed throughout the Middle Ages to create a wide variety of sweeping hilts, cross hilts, and basket hilts. |
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Therefore, Crown jewels might include everything from the regalia to swords, tiaras, rings and brooches. |
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Other lethal weapons such as swords, bayonets, crossbows and knives have also been surrendered. |
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They include a crossbow, rifles, swords, bayonets, handguns and pistols, 340 rounds of ammunition and an Oriental-style throwing star. |
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A crossbow, rifles, swords and bayonets were some of the items collected at police stations across the region. |
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The light played off the steel blades of swords, daggers and the occasional axe. |
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He thought of the day that he chose his weapons, the two swords he held now in his sweaty hands. |
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The Knights had never needed any kind of weapon beyond their swords and spears and bows. |
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She noticed that some of them were a little jumpy with their hands on the hilt of their swords. |
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We are turning our swords into ploughshares and this step should be appreciated and followed by all other countries. |
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The work of a Cotswold charity that keeps alive the idea of beating swords into ploughshares will be highlighted by Comic Relief on Sunday. |
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As a military member, my association with violence and war appears to compromise my service of the God who would turn swords into plowshares. |
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Given John Elliot's standards of accountability, don't expect too many senior personnel to be falling on their swords. |
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Others they compel to extend their necks, and then, attacking them with naked swords, they attempt to cut through the neck with a single blow. |
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Yet I was lost in the haze of the impending battle, my eyes fazed and bedazzled by the brilliant flash of swords and cutlasses. |
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Those four brought their swords down at once, but the dark wizard parried them all, holding each one and grinning toothily. |
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The characters are mostly in modern dress, but still fight with swords, even while lighting their way with battery-powered torches. |
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Observe the gleam of the soldiers' swords by the light of the torches used for illumination and setting villages ablaze. |
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From high to low, these are the ace of swords, the ace of batons, the seven of swords and the seven of coins. |
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And let us bathe our hands in blood up to the elbows, and besmear our swords. |
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I nodded, sheathing one of my swords to use my hand to wipe my face clear of tears. |
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Clumsily, he sheathed both of his swords and turned to get Vincent and Emma. |
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Sandwiched between the ceremonial swords and bric-a-brac, teenage boys gaze shiftily at the firearms on display in a Manchester shop. |
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Thousands carrying swords, tridents and saffron flags marched in front of the chariots all the way down to the river. |
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I backed off a few steps, I thrust the trident, he blocked it with his swords but the trident smashed through them. |
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Four royal cavalry troopers in ceremonial armour and helmets took up watch around the coffin with swords drawn and heads bowed. |
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I have a couple of swords at home, as well as a dagger or two, and a shuriken. |
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The world looks on with bated breath as two old rivals get together moulding their swords into sickles and ploughshares. |
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The two combatants once again faced each other, taking a couple of sidesteps, swords at the ready for the next exchange. |
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Fortunately the sidesteppers, the bullfighters, didn't have any swords, so the bulls tended to win that day, which was great to see. |
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Following suit, the followers of Melhiril charged as well, swords swinging wildly, bows twanging, and the clashing of swords and shields. |
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In the book you'll also find magic and monsters, angels and demons, magical swords and forbidden books. |
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Alex twisted both of his swords up into a self-protective X position and waited for the blow Zack would deliver. |
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You had an awful lot of people who wore swords, but who never actually drew them in mortal battle. |
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Obviously, the world of Robin Hood is populated with swords and arrows, and not with six-shooters and sniper rifles. |
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At one end of it was a pile of unconscious bodies piled atop each other, and right in front of them, swords held out to the sides, was Valshar. |
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However, his soldiers now have more primitive weapons, such as blunderbusses, muskets, swords, and repeating crossbows. |
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My next strategy has been to remain unshockable, to blunt whatever little swords my precious boy manages to pick up. |
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Among the strange contents of the vessel, which was towed to Sanday, were two swords, a pair of skis and a helmet. |
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The bull-fighters enter, with their attendants carrying their swords and muletas. |
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The twin long swords, one sword-belt around his waist, the other at a slant to his side, hung comfortably around him, their weight reassuring. |
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He whipped out his swords and slashed at it before it could get its bearings. |
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Their swords clashed with each other, ringing loudly over their uninhabited location. |
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They were various weapons, including small swords, bows and arrows, hand axes, flails, nunchakus, and even a three sectional staff. |
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Water was run across, buildings were leapt in a single bound, swords made appropriately dramatic sounds as they were sliced through the air. |
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I slowly approached it, unsheathing my swords at the same time, the sheath being slipped under my belt behind me. |
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He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust. |
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In battle, bows were good at a distance, and swords were excellent at a near range. |
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Educated, well-off young men, with degrees and laptops, imagine that their box-cutters are the equivalent of seventh-century swords. |
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They lunged at each other again, both wielding their swords two-handed. |
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By the time they got to their feet and turned to continue they had to stop again, their way was blocked by two foreboding looking men holding naked swords. |
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The police later executed a preplanned raid of the penitentiary and seized hundreds of weapons, including knives, swords, sickles, machetes and other dangerous weapons. |
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Other items include Russian swords, scimitars and a shield from Turkey. |
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A few villagers attempted to battle the invaders with old swords or axes that had hung upon the walls of their homes, homes that were even now being put to the torch. |
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Several weapons, such as swords, shields, rapiers, daggers and spearheads, which were probably symbols of wealth and power, have also been recovered from the river. |
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The boom in new types of martial arts contrasts with a decline in the popularity of their traditional counterparts, such as judo and kendo, or fighting with bamboo swords. |
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Beside the swords lay a bundle of about a dozen 2ft long socketed iron spearheads, and overlying the whole group of objects were large chunks of a broken amphora. |
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Several times there came a harsh cry from hordes of goblin throats as they came charging out of the woods waving wicked looking black iron swords with serrated edges. |
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It was forged by the heat of dragons' breath when 1,000 bent their swords in fealty to Aegon the conqueror. |
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We were not half-way across the open space when twenty or thirty furious figures appeared among the houses, firing frantically or waving their swords. |
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Eventually Guy lost his mount as well, and the two men got down to a slugging match with their swords. |
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His followers had matchlocks, spears, swords, bows and arrows. |
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Not since the Three Musketeers unsheathed their swords centuries ago has Gascony seen this much excitement. |
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His is an impressive collection of rusty coins and nails, corroded bullets and belt buckles, pieces of swords and knives, shards and bits of broken bottles. |
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Whyte's debut album, Glass Swords, came out in 2011 and was immediately embraced as proof of a new strain of digital maximalism in dance music. |
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We need not use lathis, swords and bullets for breaking their fronts. |
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She sheathed her swords and notched an arrow onto the string of her bow. |
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He barked a command, and the soldiers within the wagon shouted, climbing out of the wagon, their swords long and wide to wield, yet with a devastating blade and strong hilted. |
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His blade snapped out of its scabbard, and the first group of bowmen, arbalests exchanged for swords and axes, leapt back up onto the step their fellows had abandoned. |
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Swords were drawn by supporters of both sides, the burial ground of the Monastery becoming the theatre of battle. |
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It was a pair of matching katanas, one edged swords sheathed in rusted hold sheathing with red ribbon tied around the hilt that dangled to the side. |
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Dating from the late ninth century AD, the hoard includes silver coins, fragments of two swords, weights, a belt buckle, strap ends as well as the boat nails. |
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Swords especially were imported, copied and often improved upon by the natives. |
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They walked outside, unsheathing their swords, then got into position. |
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Thanksgiving may be about family, but that comes with an intimidating collection of double-edged swords. |
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Fending off stealth ninjas with cardboard swords is very tiring. |
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They gather every day at the clock tower, form groups, and head in one direction or another, tossing slogans on the tips of their swords and tridents. |
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So, as a short cut to happiness, drugs are double-edged swords. |
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He dressed in silk kimonos, had a large retinue of servants and carried the signature daisho, or twin swords, of the Japanese ruling samurai class. |
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There are also warriors armed with swords, tridents and other weapons. |
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He kept a series of lamps, some with medieval design, on the floor and axes and swords around the room. |
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Around lay many weapons, everything from slingshots to swords. |
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A similar pattern occurred when metal swords, armor, cavalry charges and dense infantry ranks developed. |
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At modern games, armouries will display their collections of swords and armour, and often perform mock battles. |
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The Scottish infantry would have had axes, swords and pikes, with few bowmen among them. |
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French software house Ubisoft's newie has finally arrived in Angleterre. It's set in a medieval world of swords and sorcery. |
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Swordfish charge at high speed through the bait balls, slashing with their swords to kill or stun prey. |
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When the ships were sufficiently close, melee combat would ensue using axes, swords, and spears until the enemy ship could be easily boarded. |
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Merovingian armies used coats of mail, helmets, shields, lances, swords, bows and arrows and war horses. |
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The Arawaks attempted to fight back against Columbus's men but lacked their armor, guns, swords, and horses. |
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Stingray rawhide is a common material for the grips of Chinese, Japanese, and Scottish swords. |
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The first known finds from the bog date from the 1830s, when a local farmer gave old swords and shields as toys to his children. |
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Archaeologists have found swords, shield bosses, spearheads, scissors, sickles, pincers, knives, needles, buckles, kettles, etc. |
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Other swords have tanged blades and probably had a wood, bone, or antler hilt. |
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The rock carvings have been dated through comparison with depicted artifacts, for example bronze axes and swords. |
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As he continues, Gangleri sees a man in the doorway of the hall juggling short swords, and keeping seven in the air at once. |
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He believed their skulls were so thick that the blades of Spanish swords shattered on them. |
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When they took control of a territory, the conquistadors usually banned possession of steel swords by their subjects. |
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Poorly equipped, with bows and arrows, spears and short swords, they were mainly used as auxiliary troops. |
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The main weaponry of the infantry largely consisted of swords, spears and bow and arrows. |
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Out of ammunition, they switched to their swords and axes and fought with the captain. |
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Those who stood beside him were easily overpowered and killed, while the others who tried to help him were hacked by spears and swords. |
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The Indians described the men's swords and how they killed sheep with them. |
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For the sword ought to aid the sword, and thus there are two swords, the spiritual and the temporal. |
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Most cavalry were probably equipped with pistols and swords, although there is some evidence that they included lancers. |
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As the Doctor tries to deal with the threat, he crosses swords with Rosanna, the scheming head of the House of Calvierri. |
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Coming from a performing arts background, the performers have added fire swords, hula-hoops, roped, poi, devil sticks, fans and fire breathing. |
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We were to fall on our swords as an ex gratia preemptive concession. |
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Centrepieces in the exhibition are the giant swords crafted by Chechen-born Syrian artist Emad Ghalghay. |
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Re-enactment group the Swords of Dalriada will give weaponry displays. |
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Then a clutch of long sharp icicles broke from a chandelierlike mass above his head and fell, shattering around the piano like glass swords. |
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His arms show the crancelin of Saxony impaled with the crossed swords of the Marshalcy of the Empire which went with the Saxon Electorate. |
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You say that you do not see how you and I have crossed swords with the priests. |
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Some of them used axes, throwing javelins, spears, bows and arrows along with swords. |
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Reconstructions of Type A and Type B swords weigh less than 500g, even when hilted. |
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After the bull has been taunted and wounded with swords by the picadores and banderilleros, it is exhausted and bleeding profusely. |
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After four we raise our swords. One two three four... hup two three four... hup two three four. |
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Hallstatt C is characterized by the first appearance of iron swords mixed amongst the bronze ones. |
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Iron swords appear in the later periods, from the 8th century, with tools coming rather later. |
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Another interpretation accounting for the presence of cast iron swords that had not been sharpened, was of a site for ritual depositions. |
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The City of London awarded Nelson and his captains swords, whilst the King ordered them to be presented with special medals. |
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In the days when gentlemen carried swords, there were no lines in the Chamber. |
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Franks traded timber, furs, swords and slaves in return for silks and other fabrics, spices, and precious metals from the Arabs. |
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However, swords were probably not sturdy enough for fighting and instead were likely decorative. |
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Irvin Dalton has created a list of swords which are said to have been forged by Wayland. |
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Malory records both versions of the legend in his Le Morte d'Arthur, naming both swords as Excalibur. |
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Implements such as sticks, swords and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. |
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The dancers are usually linked one to another via the swords, with one end of each held by one dancer and the other end by another. |
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At some stage in the nineteenth century, the rigid swords were replaced by flexible rappers. |
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The performers are connected by short swords bearing two handles, with the handle on one end being fixed, and the other handle swivelling. |
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A number of acrobatic figures can be employed, including forward and backward somersaults over swords. |
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They each dance with the shield upon their head, then it is laid on the floor and they withdraw their swords to finish the dance. |
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The removal of the sword pommel caps finds a parallel in Beowulf which mentions warriors stripping the pommels of their enemies' swords. |
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Beowulf's retainers draw their swords and rush to his aid, but their blades cannot pierce Grendel's skin. |
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As the wearing of swords became less common, there was renewed interest in fencing with the fists. |
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They usually rode without saddles but wore armour and iron helmets and wielded swords, skenes and long spears or lances. |
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At the Battle of Prestonpans, some only had swords, Lochaber axes, pitchforks and scythes. |
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It produced many iron objects such as swords and spears, which have not survived well to the 2000s due to rust. |
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The steel, originally intended for making clock springs, was later used in other applications such as scissors, axes and swords. |
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Thus, further attempts to homogenize the steel resulted in a carbon content too low for use in items like springs, cutlery, swords, or tools. |
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The main Indian weapons were a mixture of tomahawks, knives, swords, rifles, clubs, arrows and muskets. |
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They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers. |
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He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs. |
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Police used water cannons and fired baton rounds as they were attacked by Orangemen with ceremonial swords on Friday night. |
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A set of bagpipes was sold on but ammo, replica guns and samurai swords went straight to the police. |
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The diciest moment came when hundreds of Saleh loyalists, touting swords and knives, massed outside the UAE Embassy. |
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Part of her Goth phase involved acquiring an impressive array of swords. |
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The exercise regimen includes kickboxing, Kung Fu, Brazilian Jiujitsu and swords. |
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Cranial traumatism could not be directly linked to the presence of halberds and swords, either. |
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Insofar as they metonymically render this violence, swords have the potential for a certain excessive materiality. |
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Samurai swords, an axe, scalpels, screwdrivers, knives, knuckle dusters and even a nunchaku was seized after being used in violence. |
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The realistic swords and umbrellas are ideal for BLEACH cosplayers as well as serious collectors. |
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A Huddersfield historian has conducted research with the Royal Armouries which reveals that swords were often seen as the fashion of their day. |
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The illegal imports include white weapons such as swords, knives, daggers, sharp handgrips, batons and iron sticks. |
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His knowledge of Japanese art also extends to the traditional Japanese screens, tea boxes, kimonos, lacquer-ware and ceremonial swords. |
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Along the way, he crosses swords with a sci-fi obsessed criminal, an embarrassing role played embarrassingly by Gibson. |
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The daggers that largely replaced swords in chief's graves in the west were probably not serious weapons, but badges of rank, and used at the table. |
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After Mann completed his address, his supporters again climbed the stairs and tried to enter the Akal Takht with weapons like swords, kirpan s and spears. |
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Iron was extracted from bog iron in peat bogs and the first iron objects to be fabricated were needles and edged tools such as swords and sickles. |
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Most of the swords used by the Germanic warriors were those captured from Roman soldiers until the 4th century when German blacksmiths began making the best steel in Europe. |
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That from our swords, their ships could them but hardly save. |
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Some orders use insignia in the form of a cross, but there can also be medals or stars, military awards may have crossed swords added onto the insignias. |
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On this and other occasions the Scottish Company carried claymores with steel basket guards instead of the swords of the other French heavy cavalry. |
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William Hartnell was her Doctor, but she also crossed swords with Sylvester McCoy when she played Morgaine in the 1989 Doctor Who story Battlefield. |
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While crucible steel is more attributed to the Middle East in early times, there have been swords discovered in Europe, particularly in Scandinavia. |
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The swords in question have the ambiguous name inlaid into it, Ulfberht. |
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Pistols have replaced swords and some characters wear traditional dishdashas, abayas and keffiyah scarves, but the changes go far beyond props and costumes. |
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In addition, several martial arts weapons, including throwing stars, nunchakus and swords, were found at the two locations covered by the warrants. |
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Built to withstand the attack of small arms such as swords and spears, these walls were made mostly by stamping earth and gravel between board frames. |
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Thence once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again. |
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It sliced through shields and swords vainly raised in an attempt to parry an unparryable blow as if it were light, yet when it struck, it was hard as forged iron. |
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The improvement of steelmaking processes improved the overall quality of steel by repeated forging, folding, and stacking of wrought iron from pig iron to make swords. |
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Crossing swords with oligarchs is one problem. An equally tough problem is crossing swords with the straight political elites, particularly the power ministries. |
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The end of the samurai era in the 1860s, along with the 1876 ban on wearing swords in public, marked the end of any practical use for mail and other armour in Japan. |
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The flexible rapper swords form an unbroken chain connecting the dancers. |
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The area is renowned for the specialised production of crucible steel, sometimes called wootz, a material used in the manufacture of the fabled swords of Damascus. |
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Overhead was a thatch of buraos, and over these again palms brandished their bright fans, as I have seen a conjurer make himself a halo out of naked swords. |
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Gunsticks and others containing swords and knives are not uncommon. |
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He wore fancy jewelled swords to banquets or ambassadorial receptions. |
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Fawkes visited Keyes, and was given a pocket watch left by Percy, to time the fuse, and an hour later Rookwood received several engraved swords from a local cutler. |
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Of these, 32 are engraved with swords and other mysterious symbols. |
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Tacitus characterized the Rugii as well as the neighboring Goths and Lemovii saying they carried round shields and short swords, and obeyed their regular authority. |
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