rapier

“A broken rapier can push the clutch perfectly,” he explains, demonstrating his technique with an imaginary sword.

Schroeder took on the powerful elite with her rapier wit and antics for 24 years, shaking up stodgy government institutions by forcing them to acknowledge that women had a role in government.

But only after their rapier hosts punctured them twice in the opening 16 minutes with two goals of ruthless simplicity by Giovanni Simeone.

Lydia Millet’s most recent novel was a polished rapier called “A Children’s Bible.”

It starts out small and thin, like a rapier’s blade, but I push more of the splendor into it, until I’m holding what looks like a massive broadsword.