Sentence examples for swash from inspiring English sources

He hasn't changed his hairstyle, either, though it is trying to get away from his eyebrows, and he's wearing a cool leather jacket and generally looks ready to swash a buckle or two despite being fully 72 years old.

For instance, a capital "T" might exist in a font in its plain, staid version, but also in one with a swash or calligraphic flourish to use as the first or final letter in large type.

WE HAVE, perhaps, watched Errol Flynn buckling his swash once too often, read too many comic-book versions of "Treasure Island", gone to too many fancy-dress parties with eyepatches and stuffed parrots.

Among them are Lutetia, a modern roman and italic of great distinction; Romulus, a family of text types that includes a sloped roman letter instead of the conventional italic; and Cancellaresca Bastarda, an italic notable for its great number of attractive decorative capitals, ligatures, and other swash (i.e., with strokes ending in flourishes) letters, elegant in appearance.

This new English school, stressing conscientious scholarship, realism, honesty, social awareness, and general disdain for mere swash and buckle, produced work that completely eclipsed the rusty tradition of Marryat and George Alfred Henty.

The upper limit of the active beach is the swash line reached by highest sea level during big storms.

The message was: "We will continue to take the tough decisions and do the really swash-buckling stuff.

How to reconcile the reality of this large and increasingly conservative sector with its swash-buckling and secretive image?

Manthos Mavrommatis, head of the Greek-Cypriot chamber of commerce, notes that Greek-Cypriot businessmen are a swash-buckling lot, investing in tough spots from Russia to Syria, yet Turkey is seen as off-limits even though it is the biggest market in the region.

This is the definitive swash-buckler.

But It's fair to say his swash-and-buckle is more Australian than Canadian.