* The game " Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken " has a character named Roland, one of the ancient heroes of the Scouring, who passes the sword Durandal to the main character.

As Unferth passes his sword to Beowulf, he admits the loss of his glory, and his submission to this greater warrior.

Endued with high wisdom and having Sahadeva for his second, possessed of exceeding lightness of hand, he fighteth with the sword, making dexterous passes therewith.

The muleta obscures the sword, and as in his earlier work with the cape, the bullfighter uses it to attract the bull in a series of passes, demonstrating his control over it.

The feeling passes, and he takes the ore. With the help of Rhunon, Eragon forges a Rider's sword, similar to Zar ' roc, but blue in color ; the same color as Saphira's scales.

alt = On the deck of a sailing warship, with men in blue and red military uniforms standing in a line, a man in a long blue coat passes a sword to a large man in a short, open blue coat, who holds his hands wide with their palms flat.

In the end, after understanding Katsushiro has become a successful samurai, he passes his sword onto him as he leaves Kanna village ahead of him and Shichirouji.

Sword swallowing is an ancient performance art in which the performer passes a sword through the mouth and down the esophagus to the stomach.

The pharynx Once past the pharynx and sphincter the sword passes swiftly, assisted by gravity, straightening the flexible esophagus.

Careful focus is required to complete the process without injury, as the sword passes within millimeters of vitals such as the aorta, heart and lungs.

Genjurō reaches for a sword, throws himself out of the manor, and passes out.

Mal passes away the hours in a locked room by ineptly practicing with a sword.

As time passes, the sword Azos is stolen, and Mihael and Anna are born.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

Puhvel supported the “ Hand and the Child ” theory through such motifs as “ the more powerful giant mother, the mysterious light in the cave, the melting of the sword in blood, the phenomenon of battle rage, swimming prowess, combat with water monsters, underwater adventures, and the bear-hug style of wrestling .”

However, a good sword blow arriving in exactly perpendicular angle to the surface could cut through the links ; when the mail was not riveted, a well placed thrust from a spear or thin sword could penetrate, and a pollaxe or halberd blow could break through the armour.

In Chretien de Troyes's Perceval, Gawain carries Escalibor and it is stated, " for at his belt hung Excalibor, the finest sword that there was, which sliced through iron as through wood " (" Qu ' il avoit cainte Escalibor, la meillor espee qui fust, qu ' ele trenche fer come fust .").

This very short xiphos would be very advantageous in the press that occurred when two lines of hoplites met, capable of being thrust through gaps in the shieldwall into an enemy's unprotected groin or throat, while there was no room to swing a longer sword.

This was the standard form of carrying the sword for centuries, and would eventually be displaced by the katana style where the blade was worn thrust through the belt, edge up.

The latter agrees only to make an empty world, since " It would go too far for me to create all these fabulous creatures only for you to amuse yourself by running your sword through them ".

In later Japanese feudal history, during the Sengoku and Edo periods, certain high-ranking warriors of what became the ruling class would wear their sword tachi-style ( edge-downward ), rather than with the saya ( scabbard ) thrust through the belt with the edge upward.

They took him to Blacklow Hill and murdered him ; one ran him through the heart with his sword and the other beheaded him.

He was also known for his sword and sorcery, a fantasy genre he was instrumental in reviving through his editorial work on and continuation of Robert E. Howard's " Conan " cycle.

The Umayyad horsemen then utterly devastated that portion of Gaul, their own histories saying the " faithful pierced through the mountains, trampled over rough and level ground, plundered far into the country of the Franks, and smote all with the sword, insomuch that when Eudo came to battle with them at the River Garonne, he fled.

In Isaiah 14, the king is being mocked, as he is struck through with a sword, killed, and thrown into a common grave.

Another notable sword and sorcery anthology series that ran from 1977 through 1979 was called Swords Against Darkness ( Zebra Books ), and was edited by Andrew J. Offutt.

The older was bayoneted and the younger split down through the head with a sword.

In the ensuing dispute, Tyler ( supposedly ) drew his dagger, and William Walworth, the Lord Mayor of London, drew his sword and attacked Tyler, mortally wounding him in the neck ; Sir John Cavendish, one of the King's knights, drew his sword and ran it through Tyler's stomach, killing him almost instantly.

At the same time the church became more tolerant of war in the defense of faith, espousing theories of the just war ; and liturgies were introduced which blessed a knight's sword, and a bath of chivalric purification. The first noted support for chivalric vocation, or the establishment of knightly class to ensure the sanctity and legitimacy of Christianity was written in 930 by Odo, abbot of Cluny in the Vita of St. Gerald of Aurillac, which argued that the sanctity of Christ and Christian doctrine can be demonstrated through the legitimate unsheathing of the “ sword against the enemy .” In the 11th century the concept of a " knight of Christ " ( miles Christi ) gained currency in France, Spain and Italy.

Lucien mounted a horse and galvanized the grenadiers by pointing a sword at his brother and swearing to run him through if he ever betrayed the principles of Liberté, égalité, fraternité.

He begs one of his aides, Eros, to run him through with a sword, but Eros cannot bear to do it, and kills himself.

When he catches him, Wales dry fires his pistols through all twenty – four empty chambers before stabbing Terrill with his own cavalry sword.

Eventually, Hector breaks Ajax ' spear with his sword, forcing him to give ground, and he sets the ship on fire.

Often he is found sitting wearing the Papal Tiara, Papal robes and holding a sword pointed towards the ground.

In these assaults ... all the columns were levelled with the ground by the frequent strokes of the battering-ram, all the husbandmen routed, together with their bishops, priests, and people, whilst the sword gleamed, and the flames crackled around them on every side.

Then the sword is slashed downward to a position with the point close to the ground in front of the right foot.

When an enemy, Baron Staszrvitch, claimed the Throne and attacked him with his sword, Ottokar struck him to the ground with his sceptre.

When Stalin received the sheathed sword, he took it with both hands, kissed the scabbard, and handed it to Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, who mishandled it causing the sword to fall to the ground.

" The king spurred his horse and began swinging his sword at his companions, fighting until one of his chamberlains and a group of soldiers were able to grab him from his mount and lay him on the ground.

The sword is also believed to represent the ability Themis had from cutting fact from fiction, to her there was no middle ground.

The sword, or much more commonly the machete, is his weapon and he often does strange feats of poking himself with it, or even sticking the handle in the ground, then mounting the blade without piercing his skin.

This method is combined with The Strike of Nonthought, in which you will always strike with true force by swinging your sword toward the ground when your opponent's sword is about to drop.

In Magick ( Book 4 ), Part II ( Magick ), Aleister Crowley lists the tools required as a circle drawn on the ground and inscribed with the names of god, an altar, a wand, cup, sword, and pantacle, to represent his true will, his understanding, his reason, and the lower parts of his being respectively.

They threw the portrait down to the ground and one of the plunderers drew his sword upon the image and inflicted two deep strikes.

He manages to dodge Inshun's attack and knocks him down with a strike to the head from his own self-carved sword ; after this, he reverts to his savage self and starts beating the ground and the fallen Inshun with his sword repeatedly.

Despite the injury, Chamberlain withdrew his sword and stuck it into the ground in order to keep himself upright to dissuade the growing resolve for retreat.

His tail is strong enough to not only support his body weight, but also lift an adult man completely off the ground at the same time, and is deft enough to fight with while holding a sword or blunt object.

A large bronze and granite monument to Arminius ( colloquially known as " Hermann The German ") was erected near Detmold in the 19th century and portrays a rather Romantic interpretation of this Germanic chieftain with a winged helmet, his short sword held aloft in victory, and a Roman Standard ground beneath his foot.

The design consists of a pair of massive hands emerging from the ground, each holding a 140 foot ( 43 m ) long sword.

One of them took his sword and cut off the Devil's foot and as it fell to the ground it turned to stone.

Hayes suggests that the typical description of the ninjatō could be due to ninja having to forge their own blades from slabs of steel or iron with the cutting edge being ground on a stone, with straight blades being easier to form than the much more refined curved traditional Japanese sword.

Ever since the time of Revelation, every despot or slave that has attained to power, be he violent or ignoble, has made it his first aim and his final purpose to destroy our law, and to vitiate our religion, by means of the sword, by violence, or by brute force, such as Amalek, Sisera, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Titus, Hadrian, may their bones be ground to dust, and others like them.

In the book, Aragorn summons them above ground to the Stone, and they serve him willingly, almost eagerly ; the film has them at the verge of attacking the trio when Aragorn parries the king's blade with the royal sword Andúril, proving his authority.