Sentence examples for french swords from inspiring English sources

Modest symbols like having the French swords in the Benediction of the Swords scene consist of simple wooden crosses are telling, though automatic rifles are present, too.

Magna Carta – 3,500 words on calfskin parchment, first drafted by the archbishop of Canterbury – was extracted from King John, known as John Lackland after losing Normandy and Anjou to the French, at sword point by his frustrated noblemen, who captured London and held him to ransom.

I also have a French-made sword that I carry when I portray an officer.

The 78th Fraser Highlanders were ordered by Brigadier-General James Murray to pursue the French with their swords, but were met near the city by a heavy fire from a floating battery covering the bridge over the St .Charles River as well as militia that remained in the trees.

The French school of sword fighting was an academic form, with much emphasis on strategy and form.

In 1967, two French politicians literally crossed swords in Neuilly.

"It meant something when French nobles stopped carrying swords.

Mr. Sarkozy entered through rows of French guards with raised swords, then delivered an American-style state-of-the-nation address that sketched out his view of France's future.

The occasion when a love-struck French poet, armed with sword and dagger, was found under the queen's own bed was more terrifying than amusing, and provided John Knox with welcome material.

He also teaches a college course in the northern Italian dueling sword and the French foil.

"I don't think anybody has put it as well as Bill Clinton when he said: 'We are the children of their sacrifice.'" On Sword beach, the French president, François Hollande, told veterans and world leaders that the day should never and would never be forgotten.