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Updated: May 22, 2025
The naval sword is a handsome one, vastly more natty than the infantry side-arm of a junior officer. What a thrill each submarine boy felt as he was shown how to adjust his sword to the belt! "They're really nonsensical jewelry in these civilized days," declared Ensign McGrath, dryly. "But the regulations call for swords at some times.
Next after these pelted Master Archibald, shouting and tugging at his side-arm; and after him again, but well in the rear, a whole rabble of bull-baiters, butchers, soldiers, boys and mongrels, all yelping together with excitement and terror, the men flourishing swords and pitchforks. To speak of the man first.
He threw himself into the chair that stood in front of his desk, and, taking a penknife, commenced whittling the wooden side-arm, while Maret unfolded the dispatch and quickly glanced over its contents. "Sire," he said, "this dispatch contains surprising news. It speaks of a new enemy who might rise against your majesty."
Jack noticed that a Bavarian helmet and side-arm hung from the knapsack of one, a mere freckled lad, downy and dimpled. Tricasse drew his sabre, turned, marched solemnly along the front, wheeled again, and saluted. Jack lifted his cap; Lorraine, her arm in his, bowed and smiled tearfully.
We may jump upon a child's rocking-horse for a joke. But we are glad that the carpenter did not leave the legs of it unglued for a joke. So far from having merely preached that a soldier cleaning his side-arm is to be adored because he is military, Kipling at his best and clearest has preached that the baker baking loaves and the tailor cutting coats is as military as anybody.
His eyes were closing fast, and a lump as large as a plover's egg hung on his under-lip. "Seize those men!" he shouted, and began a string of oaths, but stopped because the utterance caused him agony. The sergeant, who had been bending over him, drew his side-arm and advanced a hulking big fellow with a pimply face and an ugly look in his eye.
The houses opposite were superior to any I had yet seen in Ciudad Rodrigo and had iron balconies before their first-floor windows, broad and deep and overhanging the house-doors. On one of these doors Leicester was hammering with his side-arm, the Portuguese standing by on the step below.
And I cannot change it, and must let it be." He sank with a deep sigh, which seemed much like a groan, into an arm-chair, and was lost in painful recollections. A gentle touch on his hand, which rested on the side-arm of the chair, restored him to consciousness. Before him stood the dauphin, and looked gravely and thoughtfully out of his large blue eyes up into his father's face.
He had been resisting it for hours, because he had never visited the lounge and did not want to visit it now. But something down there was pulling like a tractor, so he went. He didn't go to his cabin; didn't even take off his side-arm. He didn't even think of it; the .41 automatic at his hip was as much a part of his uniform as his pants. Entering the lounge, he did not have to look around.
Six bayonets are not to be charged with a couple of small-swords; and just as Captain Barker was on the point of spitting himself like an over-hasty game chicken, the sergeant raised his side-arm and dealt him a cut over the head. Hat and wig broke the blow somewhat; but the little man dropped with a moan and lay quite still in the road.
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