Sentence examples for cavalry sword from inspiring English sources

I wore my long cavalry sword well sharpened.

Most commonly a cavalry weapon, the sabre was derived from a Hungarian cavalry sword introduced from the Orient in the 18th century; also a light fencing weapon developed in Italy in the 19th century for duelling.

secretcinema.org The Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury This 16th-century market hall has also served as a courthouse, a venue for cavalry sword instruction and the scene of a crocodile exhibition.

Mike Pitts, who remembered playing with a Confederate ancestor's cavalry sword while growing up, said for him the flag was a reminder of how dirt-poor southern farmers fought Yankees, not because they hated blacks or supported slavery, but because their land was being invaded.

In 1995, he developed a smaller version of the bat'leth, the "mek'leth which is based on a Northern Tibetan cavalry sword.

In Steven Spielberg's "War Horse," the British cavalry, swords drawn, charges out of a hayfield at daybreak, gallops across an open plain, and overruns a German field camp.

He calls his hand-hammered fenders "rollers" (slang for a police car) and has used Civil War cavalry swords as suicide shifters.

Light horsemen also carried bayonets (as they were considered mounted infantry), although the Australian Mounted Division adopted cavalry swords in late 1917.

The Roman emperors' Praetorian Guard used cavalry and swords against stone-throwers.

The room contains the spurs of the cavalry officer, his sword and a fencing helmet, and a collection of pistols.

Protecting the flanks and poised to charge the enemy's weak points was heavy cavalry, armed with sword and javelin.