His encounter with the giant had left him swordless, and that left him feeling naked. ❋ Gregvaneekhout (2007)
As he strove to force his horse nearer to this gesticulating, screaming grey object that struggled up and down, there came a clatter of hoofs, and the little man, in act of mounting, swordless, balanced on his belly athwart the white horse, and clutching its mane, whirled past. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Kay should not be swordless, and so I came hither eagerly and pulled it out of the stone without any pain. ❋ Unknown (2003)
When he pressed it into Sphigx's swordless left hand, the hand closed upon it. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1993)
Quick as thought, the swordless man by his side hit up the bravo's rapier with his left arm, and the blade, stabbing the air, struck and bent against the stones of the wall just over shoulder-height. ❋ S. Levett-Yeats (N/A)
Howard replied: "It may be that we shall meet Thorbiorn, and when the meeting is over I shall not be a swordless man, but it is likely that I shall have Warflame, that mighty weapon, the best of swords; and here I have a good spear." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Whoever has witnessed Kean's superb delineation of the ruthless Richard in the scene where, in the illusion of his dying agony, swordless, he continues to lunge and feint, may comprehend the frightful mental overturn which prompted Raikes to sink inertly into a chair near the table, and with foam-flecked lips fall to counting, one by one, the miserable coals in the dull heap before him. ❋ Charles M. Snyder (N/A)
Now I come, as comes a brother, swordless unto brother's breast. ❋ Elva S. Smith (N/A)
He came to his company hatless, swordless, moneyless, but sound as ever -- the same old Jo. ❋ John R. Kinnear (N/A)
They were gunless, cartridge-boxless, knapsackless, canteenless, and all other military accoutermentsless, and swordless, and officerless, and they all seemed to have the 'possum grins, like ❋ Sam R. Watkins (N/A)
I found no body at home to deliver me his sword, and so I thought my brother Sir Kay should not go swordless, and so I came hither eagerly and pulled it out of the stone without any pain. ' ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He was gone into the darkness, and Lindley was left alone -- coatless and swordless -- with a bundle of scarlet garments under his arm, and, in his heart, an inexplicable longing to follow the boy, Johan, into the night. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was all real, infernally, hideously real, even to the most minute details: the flying up and down of his kilt, sporan, and swordless scabbard; the bursting of the seam of his coat, near the shoulder; and the absence of one of his clumsy shoe-buckles. ❋ Elliott O'Donnell (1918)
Past a room where sat Nikky Larisch, swordless and self-convicted of treason, past a great salon where a terrified Court waited, and waiting, listened to the cries outside, the beating of many drums, the sound of multitudinous feet, old Adelbert stumped to the door of the room where the Council sat debating and the ❋ Mary Roberts Rinehart (1917)
She crowded the Drive with the soldiers of the General, rank upon rank of marching men whom he reviewed with pride, while his great bronze steed pranced tirelessly; and she, a swordless ❋ Eleanor Gates (1913)
Her glance lighted on me, swordless and in the midst of that company of troopers, and I bowed low upon the withers of my horse, doffing my hat in distant salutation. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Richard staggered to his feet intent on defending himself; but he was swordless; retreat to the door suggested itself, and he had half turned to attempt to gain it, when Ruth's next words arrested him, petrified him. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Rudin, like the Duke in "The Statue and the Bust," is a splendid sheath without a sword, "empty and fine like a swordless sheath." ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)
Before the Duke saw the bride, he was, as Browning says, empty and fine like a swordless sheath. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)
