cutlas
Example Sentences
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They hurried through the corridors toward the stairway, with Cliff holding the cutlas in readiness.
From Isle of the Undead by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach
Dolores, agile as a panther, reached the pirate with her cutlas pointed, and the steel hilt rang against his breast-bone.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle
Catching up a cutlas I followed him into the open.
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine
As to this matter, the señor showed him a short, straight, wide-bladed sort of cutlas, which he called a machete.
From Ahead of the Army by C. Chase Emerson
Even Pearse fell under the spell of fierce action; his rapier played among the heavier strokes of cutlas and broad-knife like summer lightning.
From The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle