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Howardian Sword Club
A hit, a very palpable hit.(Osric in Shakespeare: Hamlet)
My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure. (Tennyson: Sir Galahad)
Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough. (Mercutio in Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet)
... High in front advanced, / The brandished sword of God before them blazed, / Fierce as a comet. (Milton: Paradise Lost XII)
One sword keeps another in its sheath. (Herbert: Jacula Prudentum)
All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. (Matthew 26:52)
The point! - envenom'd too! (Shakespeare: Hamlet)
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. that of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe us extinguished for ever. (Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France - of Marie Antoinette)
They would most willingly have taken the buttons of the foils. (Drummond of Hawthornden)
Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away. (Proverb dating from the 17th century)
Alas, sir, I cannot fence! (Rugby in Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor)
Let the praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hands. (Psalms, 149: 5-6)
Face feroque. [With fire and sword] (Latin expression)
You will learn horsemanship, swordsmanship in all its branches, and dancing. (Dumas: The Three Musketeers)
I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion / I would have made them skip. (Shakespeare: King Lear)
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in gilgal. (I Samuel, 16:7)
Men are as the time is: to be tender-minded /Does not become a sword. (Shakespeare: King Lear)
Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the main points of my analysis. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise King born of all England. (Malory: Le Morte d'Arthur)
I will not cease from Mental Fight, / Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, / Till we have built Jerusalem, / In England's green and pleasant land. (Blake: Milton)
Without question, when [Hampden] first drew the sword, he threw away the scabbard. (Clarendon: History of the Rebellion)
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. (Hebrews, 4:12)
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. (Shakespeare: Othello)
The pen is mightier than the sword. (Bulwer-Lytton: Richelieu)
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 1:18)
The minstrel boy to the war is gone, /In the ranks of death you'll find him; / His father's sword he has girded on, / And his wild harp slung behind him. (Moore: The Minstrel Boy)
In ferro veritas (The sword is truth)
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. (Song of Solomon, 3:8)
The arbitrement of swords (Shakespeare: Cymbeline)
I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O had I but followed the arts! (Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Shakespeare: Twelfth Night)
Famous swords:
Excalibur - Arthur's, the sword in the stone
Philippan - Mark Antony's, named after the battle of Philippi
Crocea mors (yellow death) - Julius Caesar
Curtana (the cutter) - Edward the Confessor