"Then stand on your guard, sir!" With a clatter and dash the two
blades met once more, Alleyne pressing in so as to keep within the full sweep of the heavy
blade, while Tranter as continually sprang back to have space for one of his fatal cuts.
(nay he swore very heartily), "that the
blade was taken from a French officer, of very high rank, at the battle of Dettingen.
An instant later I drew my
blade from the still heart of this great Barsoomian lion, and turning toward Tars Tarkas was surprised to see him facing a similar monster.
More and more weakly the torn and bleeding arm struck home with the long sharp
blade, then the little figure stiffened with a spasmodic jerk, and Tarzan, the young Lord Greystoke, rolled unconscious upon the dead and decaying vegetation which carpeted his jungle home.
Swinging his scythe just as ever, and moving his feet in their big, plaited shoes with firm, little steps, he climbed slowly up the steep place, and though his breeches hanging out below his smock, and his whole frame trembled with effort, he did not miss one
blade of grass or one mushroom on his way, and kept making jokes with the peasants and Levin.
"He escaped my
blade, and ran down this corridor," replied Kar Komak.
Bob spoke with a sharp and rather treble volubility, and got through his long speech with surprising despatch, giving the
blade of his knife an affectionate rub on his sleeve when he had finished.
Leaping into the room he ran for the Wieroo, who had already seized the girl, and as he ran, he stooped and picked up the curved
blade. The creature's back was toward him as, with his left hand, he seized it by the neck.
Others polished the
blade until all the rust was removed and it glistened like burnished silver.
"And whence comest thou, my lusty
blade?" quoth Robin.
As they reached the water's edge De Vac was walking with his right shoulder behind his companion's left, in his hand was gripped the keen
blade and as the woman halted on the dock the point that hovered just below her left shoulder-blade plunged, soundless, into her heart at the same instant that De Vac's left hand swung up and grasped her throat in a grip of steel.
He bowed his head behind his master, and without stirring held hilt up over his right shoulder a long
blade in a silver scabbard.