Apparently he was used to having prisoners cringe submissively before his drawn sword and loud, arrogant manner.

Not a man among them could stand before her sword.

Voltan threw himself back, but not before Rage's sword had ripped open a wound above his right hip.

In the fierce scrimmage that followed the lieutenant was overthrown, though not before his sword had passed through the heart of the rat-faced one.

Is there one who will accept, or are you all craven before my sword?

The last swipe of his claws before my sword took his heart.

"I have ridden behind you in battle, and I know that no mortal being can stand before your sword."

Some day you will meet a power that will not divide before your sword or fall to your bullets.

The man crumpled before his sword could even clear its scabbard.

The great apes, towering in all their fifteen feet of height, had gone down before my sword while the charging guards were still some distance away.