Sentence examples for in a sword from inspiring English sources

Or I was in a sword fight.

In 1606 he finally went too far and killed a man in a sword fight in the street.

In 1598 Jonson killed the actor Gabriel Spencer in a sword fight, avoiding execution only by being able to translate from a Latin Bible.

Lord Jones was wounded and his aide, Andrew Pennington, was stabbed to death in a sword attack at the party's office in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Nameless then proceeds to relate how he first killed Sky in a sword fight in a rain-drenched courtyard to the accompaniment of a blind musician.

"You could die in a sword fight or burn in dragon's flames/ Just when they think it's alright I cross off another name," is one great sample from the impressive remake.

Franco can enter the city when he is ready to set out in a sword-like column for the kill.

Rhos Tolle, for one, injured his leg too badly in the previous day's unhorsing to continue, and a member of the Knights of Valour dislocated his shoulder in a sword-fighting demonstration for a school group.

The narrator of "Hero Absorbs Major Damage" just barely understands that he's a character in a sword-and-sorcery video game, on his way to face the final boss in Battle 256, and that the god who controls his destiny is a 9-year-old boy.

— Jeff Gordinier City Room: In a swords-to-plowshares twist, a policeman's nightstick becomes a rolling pin.

Meanwhile, 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman imagined a battling beauty in a swords and sorcery style epic.