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So to me and mine after storm has come peace, and with us and the land all is well. i A representative assembly or court of judgment. ii An outlaw for whose slaying there was a reward, or at least no penalty. iii A curved, one-edged sword or war knife. iv The "Saga of Beowulf" was the great popular poem of the Saxon races, and as well known to them as the legends of Robin Hood to us.
It was a straight, one-edged blade, with a sharp point, and a brass basket hilt, and he remarked: "Señor Zuroaga, I could hit with that, I guess." His face had flushed fiery red, and it could be seen, from his handling of the machete, that his muscles were unusually strong for his size and age. The señor nodded his approbation, as he remarked: "I think you will do.
The clothing of the horse from the front opening upwards was of bright red sendal, and from thence opening downwards was of bright yellow sendal. A large gold-hilted one-edged sword had the youth upon his thigh, in a scabbard of light blue, and tipped with Spanish laton.
We discovered one-edged or double-edged knives of white silex in the form of saws in quantities, each about two inches long; also many hand millstones of lava, and some beautiful red vases, cups, vessels, jugs, and hand plates. In these depths we likewise find many bones of animals; boars' tusks, small shells, horns of the buffalo, ram, and stag, as well as the vertebræ of the shark.
A long, one-edged sword that hangs at the left side, in an elaborate scabbard, when a man is in full-dress. Manobo is a general term for "man," "people." The Visayans believe that an eclipse of the moon is caused by an enormous animal that seizes the moon, and holds her in his mouth. Cf. this Journal, vol. xix , p. 209.
The traditional concept of Buso among the Bagobo has essentially the same content as that of Asuang with Visayan peoples. Both Buso and Asuang suggest the Rákshasa of Indian myth. See footnote 2, p. 19. A stout work-knife, with broad, one-edged blade, and square tip; used to hew down trees, and cut kindling-wood.
He then asked to see his coat, and soon discovered a corresponding puncture in it, which he examined long and narrowly. "It is a stab with a one-edged knife." There was a simultaneous cry of horror. "Don't alarm yourselves for that," said Sampson; "it is nothing: a mere flesh-wound. It is the vein-wound that alarms me. This school knows nothing about the paroxysms and remissions of disease.
In the leaves on the sampler, the edge of the stitch is used to emphasise the mid rib, leaving a serrated edge to the leaves. The simpler forms of the stitch are the more useful. This and other one-edged stitches of the kind are sometimes called "blanket-stitch."
The blade is scimitar-shaped, is one-edged, and has a groove at the back. We may compare this with the sword of the time of Edward IV now in the possession of Mr. Seymour Lucas. The development of riding-boots is an interesting study. We show a drawing of one in the possession of Mr. Ernest Crofts, R.A., which was in use in the time of William III.
BUTTONHOLE is more useful in ornament than one might expect a stitch with such a very utilitarian name to be. It is, as its common use would lead one to suppose, pre-eminently a one-edged stitch, a stitch with which to mark emphatically the outside edge of a form. By the use of two rows back to back, leaf forms may be fairly expressed.
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