Use blade in a sentence
Sentences ending with blade
- You, my friend, who have never heard the whistle of sharp Schlager cannot know the song which a skilled arm draws from the blade. [9]
- He barred my way with his unsheathed blade. [10]
- But if Garcilasso was inferior to him in power, he was superior in agility; many of his blows he parried; others he received upon his Flemish shield, which was proof against the Damascus blade. [4]
- But who had sought his life with this dainty steel blade? [10]
- He could not see into the cave, for the space in which the bed stood was closed at the end by the narrow passage which formed the entrance, and which joined it at an angle as the handle of a scythe joins the blade. [10]
- It seemed like pressing a knife into her own bosom and turning the blade. [6]
- England might really have taken a slide up into the Arctic Zone; the sky looks like ice; the earth is frozen; the wind is as keen as a two-edged blade. [14]
- Thrice is he armed who has a long-handled hoe, with a double blade. [4]
- The papyrus cords are strong, saw them with the blade. [10]
Sentences containing blade two or more times
- The wonderful turmoil went on--presently a bright spark sprung from a blade, and that blade broken in several pieces, sent one of its fragments flying to the ceiling. [5]
- Macnamara, late of the 7th Hussars, swung his Arab sword as though it were the regulation blade and he in sword practice at Aldershot, and catching the blade of his desert foe, saved his own neck and gave the chance of a fair hand-to-hand combat. [11]
More example sentences with the word blade in them
- The Keilhau ones were kept in a cellar, and through the opening we thrust a pole to which the blade of a rapier was fastened. [10]
- The third blade was of better temper; or perhaps the thick of the work was already over. [5]
- The sacred Nile was dried up, and not a blade of verdure was green on its banks. [10]
- Then she had wandered through the deep grass, her tiny feet scarcely turning a fragile blade, and she had dreamed beside some old faded flowers. [13]
- This sometimes brought us up four or five apples at once, which hung on the blade like the flock of ducks that Baron Munchausen's musket pierced with the ramrod. [10]
- A blade gleamed under the sickly light of the fish-oil lamp overhead, but a man crashed through from behind and caught the ruffian's sword-arm and flung him back in the kennel. [9]
- This blade is too good to deal the death-blow to the body which is already bleeding from a thousand wounds. [10]
- They all seemed to tell; the swords always bent over the opponents' heads, from the forehead back over the crown, and seemed to touch, all the way; but it was not so--a protecting blade, invisible to me, was always interposed between. [5]
- For the second time an abstract principle, and with the same effect, buries its blade in the heart of a living society. [4]
- Then in contrast, the warmth, brightness, and bravery on the face of the lad in blue and gold who struck aside the descending blade and caught her up in his arms; and she had nestled there--in those arms of Philip d'Avranche. [11]
- He towers into the sky like a colossal wedge, with the upper third of its blade bent a little to the left. [5]
- The property of the freedman Pyrrhus was a flat rock in the northern part of the harbour, scarcely larger than the garden of Didymus at the Corner of the Muses, a desolate spot where neither tree nor blade of grass grew. [10]
- As Fournel saw the blade spring at him, he dropped on one knee, caught it with his left hand as it came, and wrenched it aside. [11]
- The grass was tall there, and the blade of the plant is very much like grass, only thicker and glossier. [6]
- Muschwitz, indeed, was sure that he had seen his blade flash forth fire. [10]
- There may be something in this: but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring from my face, I should be grateful for shade. [4]
- He uses a single oar--a long blade, of course, for he stands nearly erect. [5]
- After a short silence Glenn stood up in the trap, and, following the circle of the horizon with his hand, said: "There's not an honest blade of grass in all this wretched West. [11]
- But when Ulrich shouted to the crusader that the blade he lent was too good for the treacherous hand he permitted to wield it, his blood boiled, and with his first powerful thrust all was over. [10]
- I wanted to sharpen that old blade, but she said it was not necessary, as she should never kill anybody, and should carry it only as a symbol of authority. [5]
- I could not say that I saw the spire quivering in the wind, as I felt that of Strasburg doing when I ascended it,--swaying like a blade of grass when a breath of air passes over it. [6]
- He slid forward, salaamed to the floor-Dicky wondered how a body could open and shut so like the blade of a knife--and, catching Dicky's hand, kissed it. [11]
- As straight and rigid as steel rose the delicate spear-pointed silver spruces; the aspen leaves, by nature pendant and quivering, hung limp and heavy; no slender blade of grass moved. [13]
- A jerk, and Quijada had stripped the ruff from his neck, and, as this did not suffice, he cut with his sword blade and his teeth a piece of fine linen from his shirt. [10]
- His heart beat quicker as he loosed the blade and advanced toward the suspicious night-bird. [10]
- Mark how the oysterman's thin blade insinuates itself,--how gently at first, how strenuously when once fairly between the shells! [6]
- He saw handsome Orion place a small white dog, a silky creature of great beauty that evidently belonged to him--in the little maiden's arms saw her kiss it and then put a blade of grass round its neck as if to measure its size. [10]
- Clear drops sparkled on leaf and flower and blade, for, only a short time before, the garden by Bent-Anat's house had been freshly watered. [10]
- The Castilian fell on his knees, for the Brescian blade had pierced his lungs. [10]
- On the slopes of the many-colored rocks, which surrounded the sandy valley, grew no blade of grass nor smallest plant. [10]
- But the rattle of the blade had scarce reached my ears when there came a sharp pain at my throat, and the room faded before me. [9]
- Gripping the handle of my tomahawk, I prayed for guidance in my stroke, for the blade might go wild in the darkness. [9]
- Why, the young M'sieu' Duvarney had him on his knees, the blade at his throat, and a sword flashed out from the dark--they say it was the devil's--and took him in the ribs and well-nigh killed him. [11]
- Does the Bunker-Hill Monument bend in the blast like a blade of grass? [6]
- It is a long, light canoe (caique,) large at one end and tapering to a knife blade at the other. [5]
- Here she was like a cow grazing within the circle of its tether--like a lax caterpillar on its blade of grass. [11]
- A man no less haggard than the rest, but with a compelling force in his eyes, pointed with a blade to the hills across the river. [9]
- Injun Joe's bowie-knife lay close by, its blade broken in two. [5]
- Any one who knows London will understand the sacredness of those private squares, surrounded by proprietary residences, where every tree and every blade of grass has been jealously guarded from intrusion for a century or more. [9]
- He opened the knife, felt the blade, measured it along his fingers, and then said, with a little bursting of the lips, "Poom! [11]
- The handle of it cuts and the blade doesn't. [6]
- He stood up in his stirrups and cut down with his broadsword, so that the blade was driven through the head and shoulders of his foe as a woodsman splits a log half through, and grunts with the power of his stroke. [11]
- He was branding Ida's name on it with the broken blade of a case-knife when Macavoy entered on him, having just returned from a vagabond visit to Fort Ste. [11]
- The blade lacerated his fingers and his palm, but he did not let go till he had seized the sword at his feet with his right hand. [11]
- But at last he lifted his hand, the clear note of the bugle followed, Sir Sagramor's long blade described a flashing curve in the air, and it was superb to see him come. [5]
- In his dream he had been standing in the midst of a dry and barren plain: barren as a threshing-floor, it did not produce a single blade of grass. [10]
- And when I have used the blade, how eagerly have fingers pointed at me, how gladly slanderous tongues have wagged! [10]
- But rage and hate urged him upon another victim, and, unable to control himself, he rushed with uplifted blade upon the hypocritical seducer. [10]
- I had a harder job with her; my knife is so bad, and the copper blade bent with the blow; I had to strangle the gaudy devil with my hands, and she tore my shoulder and bit my arm. [10]
- If the blade had been a little longer, his career would have ended there. [5]
- You wield a good blade, but to attack Navarrete is suicide. [10]
- The dew was glistening on every little leaf and blade of grass, and the birds sang deliciously in the shrubberies round her dwelling. [10]
- The space was from four to five feet in diameter, and appeared to have been cleared of every blade of grass and smoothed as if by human hands. [1]
- Ulrich had been forced far away from his royal companion-in-arms, and was now swinging his blade beside his invalid friend. [10]
- And shall a dwarf, a mere blade of rice be grafted on to the grand old stalwart stock? [10]
- There is a dagger in the Berlin Museum, the blade of which is of bronze, the hilt of ivory and the sheath of leather. [10]
- His visor was closed; he bore a huge buckler and a ponderous lance; his scimiter was of a Damascus blade, and his richly ornamented dagger was wrought by an artificer of Fez. [4]
- My great-grandfather, a brother of the Marquis de St. Gre of that time, and a wild blade enough, came out with D'Iberville. [9]
- The blade was broad, trowel-like, but the point drawn out several inches, so as to look like a skewer. [6]
- You know we both sleep in the same tent, and yesterday, when I drew my sword out of its sheath to admire the fine work of the blade, I found that another, not so sharp, had been put in its place. [10]
- Then, with his back against a stone, Venters faced the east, and, stick in hand and idle blade, he waited. [13]
- The sharp blade, as she tried to seize it, accidentally grazed her hand--I know not how--only the skin was slightly cut. [10]
- Myrtle, with her arm still lifted, and the blade glistening in her hand, stood over her, rigid as if she had been suddenly changed to stone. [6]
- The animal turned, and with one stroke of his huge paw brought the lovers heart to heart, but the next moment the warrior, with one plunge of the blade of his knife, opened the crimson sluices of death, and the dying bear relaxed his hold. [5]
- Dip an oar, and its blade turns to splendid frosted silver, tinted with blue. [5]
- But this little affair had a blade only an inch and a half long by three quarters of an inch wide. [6]
- This was quickly accomplished; the dagger flew on the pavement, but Van Swieten sprang back with a low cry, for the sharp blade had struck his arm, and the bright blood streamed on the ground. [10]
- They plow with a plow that is a sharp, curved blade of iron, and it cuts into the earth full five inches. [5]
- Do you know a better blade or surer hand than mine? [10]
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