Sentence examples for swords it from inspiring English sources

THE distance between the front benches in Britain's House of Commons, it is said, is that of two drawn swords: it is a fittingly archaic and combative conceit.

Rushing after phantom red capes and narrowly avoiding swinging swords, it is — perhaps uniquely for a roller coaster — something of a morally exhausting experience.

But as they bounce from the top of one tree to another swinging their lethal swords, it seems as if we're looking at Nijinsky playing a combination of Tarzan and D'Artagnan.

For all that, Graham's play adds up to an implicit endorsement of the system: when Humphrey Atkins, the Tory chief whip, reminds his new opposite number, Michael Cocks, that the gap between government and opposition benches is exactly the width of two drawn swords, it sounds like a recommendation of adversarial politics.

In truth, jihad in our present day is not a war with guns or swords; it is a battle of tolerance.

Should Mr Blair fall on his sword, it is Mr Brown who would succeed him.What would change?

It's a double-edged sword; it's all change, and the culture of how councils operate has to change.

"If anyone understands that you live or die by the sword it is Coelho," said Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Chicago.

The fact that most of what arrived was delicious became a double-edged sword — it took an iron will to try to save room.

Instinctively we are all aware, that if the pen/cil is mightier than the sword, it can also be as dangerous.

I will never forget The Blue Sword; it was the first fantasy book I read in which the world didn't resemble medieval Europe.