Sentence examples for swords aloft from inspiring English sources

SHADED from the fierce sun atop a battle-dressed horse and protected by bodyguards in red and green tunics, the emir of Kano looks on serenely as wave upon wave of horsed warriors, spears and swords aloft, charge down on him, only to peel off and acclaim him at the last moment.

The fearsome fists that hold the swords aloft are replicas of Mr Hussein's own hands, made at an ironworks in Basingstoke, a peaceable suburban town west of London.The symbolism of Mr Hussein's monumental architecture needs to be unambiguous to disguise the tenuous nature of his triumphs.

At a moment when many wise men were convinced that Britain was in irreversible decline, she raised her sword aloft and proved them wrong.

His arm dangling by his side, Cailloux held his unsheathed sword aloft in his right hand and in French and English hoarsely exhorted his soldiers to follow him.

The memorial was finished in 1967; its focal point is The Motherland Calls, a great 52-metre- (172-foot) high statue of a winged female figure holding a sword aloft.

The triumphant George, sword aloft, stands on the back of the vanquished dragon, whose wings are dished, to provide the bowls in which salt and pepper were once piled high at Liverpool banquets.

From the opening sequence, which includes the surprisingly dramatic image of a little toy Continental Army man on horseback, holding his sword aloft, it is clear that the movie is a little different.

During the third crusade, he learned that Jaffa had been taken unexpectedly, and he took ship from Acre in his galleys and sailed all night to Jaffa, where he leapt into the water ahead of his knights and waded ashore carrying his huge sword aloft, to retake the city in a few hours from the terrified defenders.