"Falchion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anlace hath espoused, Sung the loud song, and dared the deed of war? And she, whom once the semblance of a scar Appalled, an owlet's larum chilled with dread, Now views the column-scattering bayonet jar, The falchion flash, and o'er the yet warm dead Stalks with Minerva's step where Mars ...
— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron
... dying, Egypt, dying! Hark! the insulting foeman's cry. They are coming! quick! my falchion!! Let me front them ere I die. Ah! no more amid the battle Shall my heart exulting swell— Isis and Osiris guard ...
— Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 • Carlton McCarthy
... sad his eye beneath Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various
... No falchion from his baldric swung, He wore a white rose in its place. No dagger at his girdle hung, But only an ...
— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier
... earth, star upon star Mounded in ruin, if a longer war Had quaked Olympus and cold-fearing men. Then did the ample marge And circuit of thy targe Sullenly redden all the vaward fight, Above the blusterous clash Wheeled thy swung falchion's flash And hewed their forces into ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson
... pioneer of Christian Science I stood alone in this conflict, endeavoring to smite error with the falchion of Truth. The rare bequests of Christian Science are costly, and they have won fields of battle from which the dainty borrower would have fled. Ceaseless toil, self-renunciation, and ...
— Retrospection and Introspection • Mary Baker Eddy
... foundation of the castle. The walls gleamed pale with knightly harness, habergeons gaping for heads, breastplates of blue steel, halbert, and hand-axe, greaves, glaives, boar-spears, and polished spur-fixed heel-pieces. He seized a falchion hanging apart, but the lady stayed his arm, and led to another flight of stone ending in a kind of corridor. Noises of laughter and high feasting beset him at this point. The Lady of the Water sidled her head, as ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith |
