Fifty swords flashed from fifty
scabbards as the men of the party saw the hostile appearance of their visitors, but before a blow could be struck Norman of Torn, grasping his sword in his right hand, raised his left aloft in a gesture for silence.
They thronged the narrow length of our schooner's decks with their ornamented and barbarous crowd, with the variegated colours of checkered sarongs, red turbans, white jackets, embroideries; with the gleam of
scabbards, gold rings, charms, armlets, lance blades, and jewelled handles of their weapons.
He first called for my scimitar, which I took out,
scabbard and all.
Then he unbuckled his
scabbard, laid it and the sword aside, and walked deliberately over to the oak thicket.
D'Artagnan, seeing him approach, drew his sword a foot out of the
scabbard.
The three horsemen made no reply, stopped not, and all that was heard was the noise of swords drawn from the
scabbards and the cocking of the pistols with which the two phantoms were armed.
Bide thee awhile till I get me a staff." So saying, he threw aside the rose that he had been holding all this time, thrust his sword back into the
scabbard, and, with a more hasty step than he had yet used, stepped to the roadside where grew the little clump of ground oaks Robin had spoken of.
I am starving," and the ape-man looked down upon the lion beneath him and smiled, a slow quizzical smile, and then he shifted the carcass from his shoulder to the branch before him and, drawing the long blade that had been his father's, deftly cut off a hind quarter and, wiping the bloody blade upon Bara's smooth coat, he returned it to its
scabbard. Numa, with watering jaws, looked up at the tempting meat and whined again and the ape-man smiled down upon him his slow smile and, raising the hind quarter in his strong brown hands buried his teeth in the tender, juicy flesh.
I had had to discard my rifle before I commenced the rapid descent of the cliff, so that now I was armed only with a hunting knife, and this I whipped from its
scabbard as Kho leaped toward me.
Slowly he let down the
scabbard on the floor, lest it should make too much noise, and then said sternly,--
Another was no less pleased with the Nez Perce lad, and nothing would do but he must exchange knives with him; drawing a new knife out of the Nez Perce's
scabbard, and putting an old one in its place.
While he was thus in two minds, and was drawing his mighty sword from its
scabbard, Minerva came down from heaven
The scraping of the
scabbard against its holder as I withdrew it sounded like the filing of cast iron with a great rasp, and I looked to see the room immediately filled with alarmed and attacking guardsmen.
Gahan laid his hand upon the hilt of his sword and drew it slowly from its
scabbard that he might make no noise that would apprise the creature of his presence.
Behind him came a throng of officers, whose steel
scabbards clattered against the stones as they hastened down the court-yard.
