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scabbard

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Whenever an injustice occurred, Hitchens would declare, “The pen of the Hitch will flash from its scabbard.”

A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.

Nevertheless, he was girt with a sword in a ragged scabbard hanging from a frayed and shabby belt of leather.

"I want you to whip this malapert with your sword-scabbard," roared the old patrician, pale with anger.

I had half drawn my sword from its scabbard, but I returned it: I made an inward determination as to his fate, and I kept it.

"One seems to be the scabbard, the other the blade," whispered Albert de Gondi in her ear.

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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scabbard, such as: bag, baggage, basket, bin, box, and cabinet.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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