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Quotes About Swordsmen

A pantherish twist and shift of his body avoided the blundering rush of two yellow swordsmen, and the blade of one missing its objective, was sheathed in the breast of the other. A
~ Robert E. Howard
The revolution breaks out; they form this group of swordsmen called the Black Legion. Alex Dumas is there at every moment, protecting the revolution and protecting France, and he rises to the equivalent of a four-star general.
~ Tom Reiss
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
His eagerness to hate had brought Leopardo a certain reputation among swordsmen, and four cruel scars on his smooth body.
~ Tanith Lee
There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen," Nedus said, idly employing the old Legion maxim. "But very few old, bold swordsmen.
~ Jim Butcher
I once asked Fritz Leiber if it was not possible that Newhon, the world inhabited by his adventurers, was actually a horror venue, disguised by the fact that Fafhrd and Mouser, those most urbane of swordsmen, always escaped the consequences of their actions at the end of each story. To this he responded, "Everything I have ever written is horror.
~ Michael Swanwick
On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
~ Judges 20:15
The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
~ Judges 20:17
That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
~ Judges 20:46
When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred swordsmen to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not prevail.
~ 2 Kings 3:26