Word: sword
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...Youths, do you not feel the spirit of your fathers that aroused them to fight against that foreign doctrine?Christianity? Does not your heart burn to renew this struggle? Seize the weapon of your fathers and conquer with the sword the spirit of your future...
With his Pecora sword in hand For months the Wallstreet foe he sought, So rested he by the Tugwell tree And smiled a while in thought...
...bull to kill a man with a sword is news almost anywhere, but when it happened last week at Corufia, with the greatest living bullfighter in the ring, Spanish editors stopped the presses...
...Corufia last week the great Belmonte stood with sword poised, feet together, to administer the estocado to a brave bull. Over the wicked horns his curving blade went, to miss by a hair's breadth the two-inch spot between the great shoulder blades. The bull stormed off, the sword waving like a reed from the hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing...
...Netherlands' great Liberal daily, Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, said with a bluntness equal to Mr. Baldwin's: "Has in peace time the Premier or Acting Premier of any Great Power in Europe ever spoken in such terms of another great European power? And it is not a flaming sword but a thoughtful smoldering rage that is the attribute of Baldwin...