Marshal music, enhanced by thousands of stamping feet, swords pounding on shields, wild blood-curdling yells, all in rhythm to the beat and drive of the music, such as it was... Every culture had its own version and every people had its own unique melody and beat.
Then, the man shoved a two-foot sword and several smaller ones down his throat.
Does it ever get violent?" this knight, who later introduced himself to me as Zorikh, brandished his four-foot sword.
In a rampage loud enough to be heard by alarmed neighbors, an actor killed his mother with a three-foot sword early Tuesday in their apartment in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, the police said.
Armed police teams were scrambled after reports that a man, variously described, including as a skinhead in his twenties, had been spotted in Chorley, Lancashire, carrying a two-foot sword.
He also is known for donning elaborate academic regalia for UC Berkeley's annual Charter Day celebration — a dark top hat with a gold seal and a shiny, three-foot sword given to him during honorary degree ceremonies at Turku University in Finland.
In a bizarre convergence of the ancient and modern worlds, the Sydney Morning Herald reported early this year that a 28-year-old visitor to the Colosseum in Rome was attacked by a centurion with a two-foot sword.
A 3-foot sword with a handle made of ivory and overlaid in gold lay at the warrior's left chest.
Investigators also believe she smashed his windows with a tire iron and, later, with a five-foot sword.
In Anfield last year, a savage assault saw one gang stab a teenager to death with a two-foot sword.
