Upraised

Her right hand held her sword upraised, but she didn't move, and then she released from the powerful grip of her left arm my struggling brother and sister. ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1999)

He rushed straight for Eldran's wife and daughter, sword upraised! ❋ Moore, Sean A. (1994)

Arturis froze; a fog or a mist enveloped him for the least of moments, and when it cleared there was a heroic stone statue upon the top step, stone sword upraised and a look of purest fury upon its face. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)

He looked up and saw an elven warrior, sword upraised, standing several feet away from him. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (1990)

Eyes closed, sword upraised, he engaged his mastery and summoned. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1988)

She approaches him with sword upraised to slay him; he looks up at her; their eyes meet; she lets the sword fall, and bids him begone and trouble her no more. ❋ George Ainslie Hight (N/A)

McDougal, of Newark, Ohio, commanding a company in the 3d Ohio, who, with sword upraised, and cheering on his noble boys, received a fatal shot, actually stepped some eight or ten paces before falling. ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)

Then, with sword upraised, he advanced cautiously toward the sleeping snake. ❋ Joseph Everidge Kelleam (1944)

It was but an instant, and with sword upraised, he rushed upon Gradasso who, noways disconcerted at the onset of this second foe, shouted his defiance, and thrust at him with his sword, but, having miscalculated the distance, scarcely reached him, and failed to pierce his mail. ❋ Thomas Bulfinch (1831)

Seeing him thus engaged, Orlando would not interfere, but ran with sword upraised upon Sobrino, and with one blow deprived him of sense and motion. ❋ Thomas Bulfinch (1831)

" Sword upraised, a horrified Simna rushed forward-only to fall hard as something tripped him. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2000)

That jibe came after the German magazine Focus put on its cover an image of the Greek goddess Aphrodite extending an upraised middle finger under the headline "Deceivers in the European Family," a reference to the errant Greek budget figures. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Logan asked, silencing Rytlock with an upraised hand. ❋ J. Robert King (2011)

The soldier pointed to the ground with one finger of an upraised hand. ❋ Terence Cannon (2011)

A heavy padlock was placed upon his sternum, right onto the pentacle, and a golden key was laid between the upraised wings on un-inked skin. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)

She repeated the lines twice, lifted her hands, and shouted the chant a third time with upraised arms. ❋ Linda Robertson (2011)