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This done, with brandish'd Swords to Turky goe, For then what is 't, but English blades dare do? And lay her waste for so 's the sacred Doom, And to Gog as thou hast done to Rome.
Then, sorrowful and abashed before the anger of the dying King, Sir Bedivere turned, and running quickly lest his courage should fail him, he reached the water's edge and flung the sword far into the lake. "But ere he dip the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the mere."
With dauntless hardihood And brandish'd blade rush on him, And shed the luscious liquor on the ground, ...though he and his cursed crew Fierce sign of battle make, and menace high. The information received from Mr Hardsett induced our hero to break off his conversation with Debriseau, and he immediately quitted the hut.
At this point he was interrupted by the sounds of silvery footsteps on the stairs, and a party of wimin, carryin' guns and led by BETSY JANE, who brandish'd a loud and rattlin' umbereller, burst into the room. "Here," cried I, "are some nine-months wimin!" "Mrs. Ward," said the editor of the "Bugle" "Mrs. WARD and ladies, what means this extr'ord'n'ry demonstration?"
So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur: But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the mere. And lightly went the other to the King. Then spoke King Arthur, drawing thicker breath: "Now see I by thine eyes that this is done. Speak out: what is it thou hast heard, or seen?"
"The brandish'd sword of God before them blaz'd Fierce as a comet: which with torrid heat And vapours, as the Libyan air adust, Begun to parch that temperate clime; whereat In either hand the hast'ning angel caught Our ling'ring parents, and to the eastern gate Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast To the subjected plain "
SWASH-BUCKLER. 'Tis art shall do it, then I will dose the mongrels Or, in plain terms, I'll use the private knife 'Stead of the brandish'd falchion. Old Play.
So that it comes to this: We seek the aid of the newest and most delicate weapon of attack and defence the small-sword to teach us how to properly make use of the most ancient and clumsy of all weapons the time-honoured quarter-staff! "But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born." Macbeth, Act V., Scene vii.
Their full fed stream Of gold, of clatter, and of pride He saw, and smote with brandish'd flame Him, who at summit of his goal Would raise the peal of Conquest. 2nd Strophe. "Foil'd in his frantic rush, Though still with blasts of hate against us raving, Down dropt he, torch and all, And heavy struck the Earth, who upward spurn'd him.
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