Bared

So saying the old captain bared his blade and with it dealt the sailor who had spoken a thrust in the throat, that the steel came out gleaming from his nape; and quoth another of the sailors, “What hath our comrade done of crime, that thou shouldst cut his throat?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Well?" said the governor, and the word bared his teeth because his lips were dry. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)

Kelsey rushed up beside the giant, his sword bared and point aimed in towards Tommy's heart. ❋ Salvatore, R. A., 1959- (1993)

Shapur was wearing full armor and holding his sword bared in his hand rather than the rod of justice. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)

In his kingly way he has taken but little account of lives sacrificed to his impulsive policy; he is a king with a double-edged sword bared in his right hand. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)

The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank grey beggarman, half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two old shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a three-stringed harp. ❋ Joseph Jacobs (1885)

The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a green wand of holly. ❋ Joseph Jacobs (1885)

Hail is known as bared, which literally translates as cold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

31 THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER It is a part of our office to stand uncloaked, masked, sword bared, upon the scaffold for a long time before the client is brought out. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)

For the record, she implied that they grinned and "bared" it rather than wait for the preferred skin tone. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A. P. Hill had not been permitted to throw into the action the full weight of his division, but into the rout of Taliaferro’s men he had ridden, coat off and sword bared, and had rallied some of those who were fleeing. ❋ Douglas Southall Freeman (1971)

Let a hand be laid upon me, or a sword bared before my eyes, and I swear, madame, that I'll come back and burn this dunghill of rebellion to the ground. " ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

You better take it before your filthy, fraudulent self is bared to the nation. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

Before they reached the thing, an enormous snout shuddered up out of the mountainside and bared great fangs. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

Garm was the first, leaping up from his blanket and standing with fangs bared and a low growl in his throat. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)