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Therefore if time were given him he must trust to his wit. "Make ready, you are about to die," said Adrian. "I think not," replied the prostrate Ramiro. "Why not?" asked Adrian, astonished. "If you will be so kind as to move that sword-point a little it is pricking me thank you. Now I will tell you why. Because it is not usual for a son to stick his father as though he were a farmyard pig." "Son?
Mingling with the dismounted dragoons, they forced them, at the sword-point, to fly to the open moor, where a considerable number were cut to pieces. But the moon, which suddenly shone out, showed to the English the small number of assailants, disordered by their own success. Two squadrons of horse moving to the support of their companions, the Highlanders endeavoured to recover the enclosures.
At the sight of the old man's face he gave a violent start, and drawing his sword, had rushed forward with such fury that the two guardsmen not only dropped their victim, but, staggering back from the threatening sword-point, one of them slipped and the other rolled over him, a revolving mass of blue coat and white kersey. "Villains!" roared De Catinat. "What is the meaning of this?"
He was quite close, only ten feet away, when Emmeline saw behind him, shearing through the clear rippling water, and advancing with speed, a dark triangle that seemed made of canvas stretched upon a sword-point. Forty years ago he had floated adrift on the sea in the form and likeness of a small shabby pine-cone, a prey to anything that might find him.
She left Old Picardy a merry, laughing married woman and arrived at Versailles a widow. Gustave, the husband whose love she would never know, perished at an early hour on the morning of her arrival, at an adversary's sword-point behind a potting-shed near the Petit Trianon.
Not to admire him, would argue me senseless, heartless. I do; I have reason to. 'And you make him the butt of your ridicule, Tony. 'No; I said "like a king"; and he is one. He has, to me, morally the grandeur of your Sol sinking, Caesar stabbed, Cato on the sword-point. He is Roman, Spartan, Imperial; English, if you like, the pick, of the land.
"A gentleman! Hark to the bourgeois Huguenot, whose family peddles cloth!" "You coward! I will write liar on you with my sword-point!" He sprang forward, and sent in a thrust which might have found its way to Dalbert's heart had the heavy sabre of a dragoon not descended from the side and shorn his more delicate weapon short off close to the hilt.
Then the second soldier, casting admiring glances on Sara, said, "She is a fair maiden; she shall be my spoil." "Jove Almighty!" exclaimed the other, catching his sword-point in the front of her bodice and laying it open. "A fair maiden indeed. Not thine, but mine shall she be," and he motioned his fellow soldier to stand back. "The God of our fathers strike thee dead!" Jael shouted in wrath.
However, it is of the finest workmanship. It is, as you see, double, and each link is made of steel so tough that no dagger or sword-point will pierce it. I put it on a block and tried the metal myself, and broke one of my best daggers on it without a single link giving. Take it, lad. You are welcome to it.
Observe the raised bars on the latter, to entangle and break the sword-point. The mounted figure in brown armour shows the equipment of the cavalry in the early part of the seventeenth century, the armour being browned or blacked to prevent rust and to avoid detection at a distance. All the pieces bear the King's initials, and the face guard is pierced with the design of the Royal Arms.
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