Sentence examples for flashing blades from inspiring English sources

On and on the evil floods in, springing out of apartments and doorways with firing guns, flashing blades, hammering hands and eruptions of thrusting, jabbing right-angled elbows.

"OF COURSE I'm all in favour of clean energy, especially wind power, but…" That is a familiar opening gambit in a new sort of political storm, raging ever more fiercely in corners of the world where electric power comes, or may soon come, from flashing blades rather than blazing furnaces.The odd thing about conflicts over wind is that, usually, each side claims to be greener than the other.

"It is looking exceptional this year," says William Pitts, as the torrent of golden wheat ears sweeps into the flashing blades below the cab of his combine harvester.

Sri Lanka's flashing blades at the 1996 World Cup tempted England to abandon their conservatism and look for their own Sanath Jayasuriya or Romesh Kaluwitharana and they gave Surrey's Ali Brown a run in the one-day team but never seemed to invest much confidence in his ability to transfer his dashing domination of county attacks to the international stage.

The runs, which had once flowed so freely from his flashing blade, had dried up.

This ending, despite its marvelous imagery — the green tongue, the flashing blade — was weaker than the opening.

There was definitely a noise as Siddle's ball flew past Swann's flashing blade, but what made it?

Bell played some enchanting strokes, his footwork delightful, his flashing blade certain until he somehow contrived to misjudge the line to Mitchell Johnson.

The home celebrations were cut short but only for as long as it took the flashing blade of "Sid the Kid" Crosby to make its mark.

But it's turned out that I'm a member of the engineering corps and not a flashing blade in sight".

For Mrs Miniver, he inserts a menacing glimpse of a flashing blade while Walter Pidgeon is mooning over the heroine, turning his quiet love into something dark and sinister (which, of course, never materialises in the story).