Sentence examples for sword stroke from inspiring English sources

Defenders of the Saudi death penalty say beheadings, usually with a single sword stroke, are at least as humane as lethal injections used in the United States.

The bull, when he is in querencia, counters the sword stroke with his horn when he sees it coming as the boxer counters a lead, and many men have paid with their lives, or with bad wounds, because they did not bring the bull out of his querencia before they went in to kill.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, The bull, when he is in querencia, counters the sword stroke with his horn when he sees it coming as the boxer counters a lead, and many men have paid with their lives, or with bad wounds, because they did not bring the bull out of his querencia before they went in to kill.

That's not to say there aren't a few nods to the developer's heritage – a sword stroke Dante would be proud of here, a monstrosity horrific enough to dwell in Resident's Evil's most infested mansion there – but in Dragon's Dogma, Capcom have not only attempted to shake up their own studio, but the entire Japanese role-playing genre too.

My duel with Sam ends when I yield under a flurry of sword strokes.

Towards the end of his career it was alleged that he was hesitant against the short stuff but here, in front of a sparse crowd of only 6,000, he put away bouncers from Ward and Peter Lever with what John Arlott described as "hooks which flashed like sword strokes".

But instead of using broad sword-strokes intended to decimate the fruit, our hero, who has the deft precision of a surgeon, uses a series of carefully considered quick cuts to transform this pineapple into finger food.

Based on this theory, the women devised a computerised treatment – Sheffield Word, known as Sword – giving stroke and brain damage patients high-intensity stimulation through images, words and sounds to try to kick-start damaged nerve systems and get them speaking again.

Down the hall it's Confessions of a 13th Century Monk, with dishy Templar (James Purefoy) manfully struggling temptations of the flesh – "is this how you hold it" quivers the lady of the manor, stroking his sword.

The executioner took off her head with a single stroke of his sword.

His chief weapon is the sullen Achilles (Mr. Pitt), who in an early scene strolls out of his love tent, like a petulant movie star summoned from his trailer, to dispatch an enormous Thessalonian warrior with a single stroke of the sword.