rapier
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Susan, who has multiple sclerosis, walks with a cane, but one wouldn’t be surprised to see her wielding it as a rapier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026
But Menken and Maas would have been hard-pressed to surpass the rapier wit of George and Martha.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
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.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
O'Rourke's rapier wit frequently cut across the US political divide.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2022
It was no longer a box, no longer that faintly threatening or deceitful blandness of four walls, no longer the kind of arras trap which tempted Hamlet's rapier to prick about for rats.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Accordingly, he brings out the stand-up artist in Cyrano, a man who brandishes one-liners as if they were rapiers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2019
He was terrific at the World Cup, his dynamism and cleverness at the breakdown helping to protect and unleash the rapiers in his backline.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2016
The object is to make those fights look dangerous, without endangering the swashbuckling performers who brandish the swords and rapiers.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2013
An arrangement of earth and skulls – clustered in threes – borders the wooden floorboards of an old-fashioned gymnasium, where fencing rapiers hang ready for use.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
As he came closer Fremantle observed with alarm that the man was spotlessly groomed; even his mustache was waxed, the ends slim and sharp like wiggly rapiers.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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Othello
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