Sword

Sword

A sword is a bladed weapon (edged weapon) used primarily for cutting or thrusting. The precise definition of the term varies with the historical epoch or the geographical region under consideration.

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Famous quotes containing the word sword:

    “The flame from the angel’s sword in the garden of Eden has been catalysed into the atom bomb; God’s thunderbolt became blunted, so man’s dunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    “...and every sword was against the other, so that there was very great confusion.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 14:20.

    “For the sword outwears its sheath,
    And the soul wears out the breast.
    And the heart must pause to breathe,
    And love itself have rest.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)