swordsman
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She’s often hidden away, usually in need of saving, her rescuer the green-outfitted swordsman Link.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2024
Not to worry, though: Sargon is just as slick a swordsman, with the ability to swing two blades at once, pull off superhuman acrobatics and even stop and rewind time.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2024
Cyrano de Bergerac is, we are told, a “soldier, poet, philosopher, magician, playwright … and the best swordsman in Paris.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
A prolific composer as well an accomplished swordsman, he wrote string quartets, symphonies and concertos while leading one of Europe's best orchestras - Le Concert des Amateurs.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2022
Black as maester’s ink he was, but fast and strong, the best natural swordsman Selmy had seen since Jaime Lannister.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Akira Kurosawa’s tale of a 19th-century samurai who leads a group of swordsmen against a corrupt local governor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2020
On any given day, the selfie sticks waving in the air along the upper deck give the impression of a band of swordsmen setting off on a raid.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2018
Sure, the show offers cartoonish heroics like Aliff’s burly Porthos easily outfighting four swordsmen.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2016
The very notion that Montoya is not the world’s greatest swordsmen?
From Time ● Oct. 20, 2011
"Then these other swordsmen have the true power. Or do they? Whence came their swords? Why do they obey?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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