Faulchion

With Nelson for her faulchion keen, and her buckler Billy Blue. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

But the Trumpetter in that shippe plucked foorth his faulchion and stepped to the Pilote at the helme, and vowed that if he did not speedily put off to the English Fleete, and so take part with them, he would presently kill him: which the ❋ Unknown (2003)

_That you ever must dread from his faulchion a blow_. ❋ Thomas James Wise (1898)

I turned to him, what while he girt his faulchion on, and said, ❋ Anonymous (1879)

Then seeing that Vikhor was perfectly enfeebled, he snatched from him his keen faulchion, and with a single blow struck off his head. ❋ William Ralston Shedden Ralston (1858)

They had also greaves and helmets, and at their girdles a short faulchion, as large as a ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1844)

That you ever must dread from his faulchion a blow. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

In his fell hand uptakes he both faulchion and knife, ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

After all this curious erudition, the rough but skilful Ritson inhumanly triumphed by dissolving the magical fancies of the more elegant Warton, by explaining a _Faucon brode_ to be nothing more than a _broad faulchion_, which, in a duel, was certainly more useful than a _bird_. ❋ Isaac Disraeli (1807)

And let each faulchion pierce some loyal Briton's heart! ❋ Unknown (1797)

With faulchion drawn and with death-threat'ning looks ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1765)

So saying, he caught the faulchion from the floor 380 ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1765)

Slung his keen faulchion, grasp'd his spear, and stood ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1765)

At length a fine Mars was offered, calm, bold, his faulchion not drawn, but ready to be drawn. ❋ Unknown (1760)

Darts th 'keen spear, or glittering faulchion wields, ❋ Thomas Morrison (1741)

The man then stood, and straight his faulchion drew; ❋ John Dryden (1665)

Thrust at his paunch, and drove his faulchion sheer ❋ Lodovico Ariosto (1503)

She whirls this while her faulchion, and would fain ❋ Lodovico Ariosto (1503)

And when and where and how, that faulchion bright; ❋ Lodovico Ariosto (1503)