hand-and-a-half sword

Purple cloak drew the big hand-and-a-half sword, holding it at the ready.

She had a dagger; he held a hand-and-a-half sword that could run her through before she even came close.

From it hung a hand-and-a-half sword and gleaming dagger sheath.

Would you be amenable to a hand-and-a-half sword instead?"

They carried cross-hilted hand-and-a-half swords, and one held a glave, the other a bow.

The Cat Lord pointed to the hand-and-a-half sword strapped to the warrior's broad back.

Slapped home daggers and his Ceuran hand-and-a-half sword.

Though she wields her massive hand-and-a-half sword with seemingly reckless enthusiasm, she is a serious warrior.

His was a fine weapon-a hand-and-a-half sword of dwarfforged steel, tested in two decades of mercenary fighting.

Inch by inch, the scuffed leather hilt of Murtagh's hand-and-a-half sword came into view.

The thin man wears a hand-and-a-half sword across his shoulders, much the way Creslin wears his shorter blade.

Longsword - also Hand-and-a-half Sword.

On his back was fixed a saddle, and in that saddle sat a man garbed in polished steel armor and armed with a hand-and-a-half sword.

He stared with growing horror at his enemy's hand-and-a-half sword, then back up at the eye slits of his mirrored helm, and shouted, "I know you!"

Carefully, he took in every detail of the man-the chain mail showinj Scott MacMtllan under robe and mantle, the hand-and-a-half sword belted around his waist.

Longsword wasters are generally between forty-two and fifty inches long and are also known colloquially as Hand-and-a-Half swords, allowing the use of both hands on the hilt while using them.

Marco held his breath, and with all the concentration he could command, placed the century-old hand-and-a-half sword reverently in the cradle of the special rack he'd asked Milord Petro to have made.

Joffre's hand-and-a-half sword was too long to be used effectively in the confines of the chapel, and Brandstadter had to grasp his axe by the middle of the haft in order to wield it.

Later, the Swiss added the pike to better repel knightly attacks and roll over enemy infantry formations, with the halberd, hand-and-a-half sword, or the dagger known as the Schweizerdolch used for closer combat.

Kharl found himself wincing as he looked at the gleaming array in the display window- sabres, cutlasses, a menacing hand-and-a-half sword, an even longer and wider broadsword, and all manner of knives and dirks.

In the van were two young men bearing purple banners, followed by a man in a purple cloak thrown back to reveal an iron breastplate and a large hand-and-a-half sword worn in a shoulder harness.

After that, they will conduct more sabre drills... and Lorn will take up the padded heavy hand-and-a-half sword that he has had to learn to master in order to accustom the trainees to facing the barbarian blades.

IV West of Arastia, Hydlen [Candar] THE MAN IN the muddy leathers, wearing a hand-and-a-half sword across his shoulders, and carrying a coil of rope in his left hand, rides up to the dirt-spattered white tent in the middle of the camp.

Hanwei enjoys considerable success among hobbyists (e.g. practitioners of Iaido) due to the prohibitive pricetag of "real" Japanese shinken and has moved into manufacturing models of Chinese and European swords as well, including typical specimens of a Viking sword, a knightly sword and a hand-and-a-half sword.