Sentence examples for over the sword from inspiring English sources

Its convenient size made the dagger inconspicuous to wear and easy to draw, giving it advantages over the sword in many situations.

That play gave us the cliché about the pen's might over the sword, but in its original setting the remark does not have quite the peaceful sentiment that it often carries these days.

One of the book's more subtle charms is that it serves as a parable of the power of the written word, which prevails over the sword or, more accurately, the axe.

It's "1 1" control over the sword and shield.

After the couple requested several continuances, a trial over the sword is set for February 2013.

How long until "might makes right" is replaced by morality, until the pen and law and human decency really do triumph over the sword?

Colbert operated well within his traditional, "facts have a liberal bias" satiric pose, saying that he "gut checks his show," and would opt for the "AK-47 of Bullshit" over the "Sword of Truth".

If you are playing a game where swords aren't the default weapon, you will probably be yelled at if you over-use the sword.

"The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever".

Her teenage son treasures the brave letters, full of football and jollity, quoting scraps of comic verse ("When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe/ I'm going to keep a jellyfish and listen to it breathe") that his father had sent home from the horror of the blood-and-shit trenches.

The justices are very cognizant of a potential backlash because, as Alexander Hamilton once famously noted, the Court "has no influence over either the sword or the purse".