1 He drew his rapier, despite his gentleness, and laid the Israelite stone dead upon the cushions at Cunegonde's feet.
2 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.
3 A long cloak of crimson velvet fell in graceful folds from his shoulders, disclosing in front the splendid baldric, from which was suspended a gigantic rapier.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE 4 The thought slid like a cold shining rapier into his tender flesh: confession.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 5 The little word seemed to have turned a rapier point of his sensitiveness against this courteous and vigilant foe.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 6 She held a line of tatting in her hands and she was driving the shining needle back and forth as furiously as though handling a rapier in a duel.
7 Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.