smallsword

Example Sentences

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One felt that the delivery of a hat, smallsword, cane, or message possessed at least the dignity, the entire absence of all worldly considerations that belong to the Sunday alms.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

Finally he made him proficient in the polite use of the smallsword and the dice-box.

From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton

Fine words, worthy of history's record, with only the blemish that they were addressed to little scamps not higher than their boot-boxes, and who were quite incapable of holding a smallsword.

From Tartarin of Tarascon by Daudet, Alphonse