Sentence examples for sword hand from inspiring English sources
noun
The hand in which one's sword is normally held.
I think this tradition stems from olden days, when the groom needed have his sword hand free to protect his bride.
The prayerful gesture of folded hands among Protestant churches derives from an old Germanic tradition of holding the sword hand with the left hand, which symbolizes one's giving himself over to the protection of God because he is now defenseless.
A pretty gruesome episode: one line of crucified slaves, two near rapes, the single-handed takedown of an expendable group of soldiers, the sacrificial slaughter of a group of horses, subsequently laid out in a strange spiral shape by their undead killers, and the loss of Jaime Lannister's sword hand.
"What [lefties] need is stimulation of their right hemisphere the one that controls their sword hand".
Otherwise, the first band manager of Stillwater is played by Noah Taylor, who is now best known for cutting off Jaime Lannister's sword hand in Game of Thrones.
You will stand side on, leading with your sword hand, with your foot on that side pointed towards your opponent while your rear foot points out at roughly 90 degrees.
This is some kind of tribute to Airborne Rangers, I suspect, with a little skull and two sword hands.
It has a clever running seconds hand that is supposed to look like it's "breathing" – there's a little disk that shows and hides a lumed surface – and the tulip hour hand and sword minute hand are bright and bold.
Alexander Ludwig, who plays the brutal young competitor Cato, told reporters at the film's Los Angeles premiere, "There was lots of fight training, sword training, hand-to-hand combat — we got really good at parkour and free running as well".
Not even Dorothy Dunnett, who can write, can write an interesting sword; and George R. R. Martin, the author of the books on which "Game of Thrones" is based, writes the kind of prose that might describe a sword hand-forged from a meteorite and make it less thrilling than a can opener.
Ekan Thomason, a Buddhist priest who graduated from a six-year program there, said hers included drawing blood from her finger and handling a Samurai sword, handed to her by Ms. McNally.
