cutlas

Example Sentences

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"Whet your tusks, lads, here's the blessed manna!" squealed Caliban, a hunchbacked terror, who kept his maimed carcass secure by virtue of his viperish temper, coupled with an uncanny skill of the cutlas.

From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward

"His arm's just as good as a new wooden one, and his repartee is as sharp as the cutlas that broke the skin on it."

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod

Catching up a cutlas I followed him into the open.

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod

Thrusting the cutlas beneath his belt, he clutched a handful of the black dust.

From Isle of the Undead by Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur

"Hot work," said the Englishman coolly, putting down his rifle and taking up a revolver and a cutlas.

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod