Rapier Sentence Examples

And what does this sharp rapier of light represent, as a picture?

The elegant rapier was used in preference to the older, clumsier cutting swords.

This was, once again, treated like rapier wit.

The rapier (63) or lengthened dagger is rarely found, and is prisbably of prehistoric Greek origin.

Lecturer makes rapier points about constitutional discrepancies, Solid wants to bludgeon us with street morality; some points I even agree with.

He carries a rapier, the sword of a gentleman and again, even has a spare in the background of the image.

Fencing as an exercise based on speed and skill began when the longer, lighter rapier was developed in Italy during the 16th century.

The fencer who demanded a contest according to the rules of fencing was the French army; his opponent who threw away the rapier and snatched up the cudgel was the Russian people; those who try to explain the matter according to the rules of fencing are the historians who have described the event.

Mine comes from Wagner & Hand 's reliance on 16th-century Italian rapier and dagger sources for their footwork.

Contrary to popular belief, rapier combat was not a gentleman 's affair.

Mine comes from Wagner & Hand's reliance on 16th-century Italian rapier and dagger sources for their footwork.

His logic, while never obtruded, was rarely at fault; but lie loved the flash of the rapier, and was never happier than when he had to face down a mob and utterly foil it by sheer superiority in fencing.