Sentence examples for swords drawn from inspiring English sources

Some were dancing; others saluted or stood guard with straight-pin swords drawn.

Iranian and Hezbollah fighters came into our neighbourhood with their swords drawn.

In Steven Spielberg's "War Horse," the British cavalry, swords drawn, charges out of a hayfield at daybreak, gallops across an open plain, and overruns a German field camp.

Nearby, two others painted a picnic table while another pack of children scurried by dressed in green tunics, wooden swords drawn for a play battle.

One is his rhetorical skill: "He spake: and, to confirm his words, out-flew/Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs/Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze/Far round illumin'd hell".

Even by virtue of this post title at least half a dozen Microsoft defenders will launch into the comments of this post with swords drawn.

She accepts, and Melot rushes forward, sword drawn.

And since we have the sword drawn, why not get rid of the Fifth Amendment?

Now, looking much relieved, he just stands in place, sword drawn, to deliver this daunting aria.

"Come quickly, an intruder," one will shout, and any guard in earshot will come running, sword drawn.

The prisoner was usually seated on two tatami mats, and behind him stood a second (kaishakunin), usually a relative or friend, with sword drawn.