Sentence examples for tip of the sword from inspiring English sources

The deputies here act as the tip of the sword.

The tip of the sword reaches 85 metres (280 feet) into the air.

He and his mother, Barbara Labrador, whom he called "the tip of the sword" in his legal defense, did not cooperate with Ms. Pulitzer but plan to write their own book.

Then a colleague comes out with heavy gloves, a grounding strap and an épée and fences with the arcs, drawing the artificial lightning with the tip of the sword.

The ubiquity of these televised college games makes the dream of a marketing bonanza -- Jim Leavitt's fightin' Bulls as the tip of the sword -- all the more difficult to achieve.

He lay the tip of the sword upon my shoulder and said, "Prepare to be knighted".

(In foil and épée only the tip of the swords are used to score).

The new gospel there is that football is "the tip of the marketing sword".

Because football is so central to him, he assumes his team's success is widely known and that it translates into other realms -- he believes, without a doubt, in the concept of football as tip of the marketing sword.

G.T.T. for "Gone To Texas", was a familiar catchphrase in the south-east, often seen scrawled on an empty shack after its inhabitants had gone.It is said that Travis's crucial move was to draw a line in the sand with the tip of his sword at the Alamo, a crumbling secularised Franciscan mission.

Armistead, known for leading his brigade with his cap on the tip of his sword, made the farthest progress through the Union lines.