1 "It's got a solid-gold hilt," he said.
2 The sergeant turned it in his hand, held the hilt up to the sunlight to read the engraved inscription.
3 "But it's got a solid-gold hilt," insisted the little trooper.
4 She has always approved of you up to the hilt.
5 There was a heavy pistol openly in his trouser band and from the top of his tattered boot protruded the hilt of a bowie knife.
6 The brass-mounted hilt lay in contact with some parts of the fire.
7 He shall have my sword, which is of bronze, all but the hilt, which is of silver.
8 He held his sword drawn in his hand to defend himself, if I should happen to break loose; it was almost three inches long; the hilt and scabbard were gold enriched with diamonds.
9 They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship.
10 If you'll stop to lunch I'll prove you this time travelling up to the hilt, specimen and all.
11 A knife was plunged up to the hilt in Rita's left breast.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 12 Candide in an instant drew his rapier, and plunged it up to the hilt in the Jesuit's belly; but in pulling it out reeking hot, he burst into tears.
13 So speaking, he grasps his helmet with his left hand, and, bending back his neck, drives his sword up to the hilt in the suppliant.
14 In the courtyard, elephants trumpeted, and swart men with beards dyed crimson stood with blood-stained hands folded upon their hilts, guarding the caravan from El Sharnak, the camels with Tyrian stuffs of topaz and cinnabar.
15 They stamped upon the carpet with their feet; they bit their lips till the blood came, and grasped the hilts of their swords with all their might.