Sentence examples for draw the sword from inspiring English sources

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"The moment you draw the sword, you have to kill your opponent," he said.

But history suggests America has seldom hesitated to draw the sword when sweet-talking would not suffice.

As a boy, Arthur alone was able to draw the sword out of a stone in which it had been magically fixed.

Tom wrote to his brother Hugh that he hoped to see the Republican Party "extend to the south the olive branch — and if that is refused, draw the sword".

Having badly and repeatedly misjudged the company's business and its CEO, is the Board looking for an impossibly "well-rounded" candidate: the man or woman who can draw the sword from the stone, someone with a heart and mind pure enough to put the company back on track?

Though everyone tries to draw the sword, Volsung's son Sigmund is the only man who can do it.

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He draws the sword from the stone.

After practice, Mr. Kataoka took out a steel sword and knelt down next to it, to demonstrate a 400-year-old art of drawing the sword, known as iaido.

We may not listen to your treacherous word Unless we would be traitors to our dead, And forfeit all for which their blood was shed And lose the prize for which we drew the sword.

As the Malfoys flee, fearing the battle lost, a defiant Neville draws the Sword of Gryffindor from the Sorting Hat and decapitates Nagini, leaving Voldemort mortal.

As Link draws the sword from its pedestal, Zelda telepathically calls him to the Sanctuary, informing him that soldiers of Hyrule Castle have arrived.

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