These swords are characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water.

These swords were hung from a belt using the scabbard-slide method, which kept the weapon vertical.

These swords, derisively called guntō, were often oil-tempered, or simply stamped out of steel and given a serial number rather than a chiseled signature.

These swords were designed as cutting weapons, although effective points were becoming common to counter improvements in armour, especially the 14th-century change from chain mail to plate armour.

These swords did not provide a full two-hand grip but they allowed its wielders to hold a shield or parrying dagger in their off hand, or to use it as a two-handed sword for a more powerful blow.

These Almogavars were much more agile than the heavily armored knights with swords, as his enemies often used, especially on the moving deck of a galley at sea.

These three elements formed a mutually supportive combination of tactical roles: the arquebusiers harried the enemy line, the pikemen protected the arquebusiers from enemy cavalry charges, and the men-at-arms, typically armed with swords and javelins, fought off enemy pikemen when two opposing squares made contact.

These items appear randomly in the form of beam swords, baseball bats, fans, turtle shells, and hammers, among others.

These included a deep red silk lamba mena, imported paintings of European royalty, thousands of coins, eighty articles of clothing, swords, jewels, gold vases, containers of silver and so forth.

These swords took on a much more acute distal taper and point.

These swords are also sometimes referred to as taijijian or " t ' ai chi swords ", though there were no historical jian types created specifically for taijiquan.

These swords have extremely thin blades or a high degree of flexibility compared to historical battlefield quality jian, properties intended to add auditory and visual appeal to a wushu performance.

These machines carry an assortment of melee weapons, ranging from swords, axes, spears to chainsaws.

These fighters required speed and needed the flexibility to turn their own bodies in any direction to use light weapons such as the bow, javelin, short swords, and later, the rifle and pistol.

These ' rockets ', fitted with swords used to travel long distance, several meters above in air before coming down with swords edges facing the enemy.

These Immortals wear menpō-style metal masks, and carry a pair of swords closely resembling Japanese wakizashis.

These solid hilted swords were known since Bronze D ( Rixheim swords ).

These Indians offered a strong resistance to the invaders, fighting with poisonous darts and arrows against the arquebuses and swords of the Spaniards.

These great war swords could be used to hack off the heads of enemy pikes ; or more likely to knock the pikes aside, creating disorder among the tightly arranged enemy pikemen in order to break through their lines.

These swords are very similar to two-handed sword or Zweihänder.

These swords were never returned.

These illiterate boors conscripted from villages all across the Czarina's empire had, Suvorov may have told Lewis, just two things a commander could count on: physical fitness and personal courage.

These new poems have only a few direct references to jazz and jazz musicians, but they show changes in Patchen's approach to his poetry, for he has tried to enter into and understand the emotional attitude of the jazz musician.

These have never gone out of style in Scandinavian homes and now seem to be reappearing here and there in shops which specialize in handicrafts.

These gentlemen already have done the party harm by their seeming reluctance to vote aid for the depressed areas and by their criticism of Mr. Kennedy for talking about a recession and unemployment.

These proposals would reduce the amount of tax that DuPont stockholders might have to pay -- from an estimated 1.1 billion dollars under present law to as little as 192 million dollars.

These arrangements would have been impossible if the business community was truly interested in the welfare of its employes.

These forty-seven special purpose governments have the authority to levy taxes, to borrow money, own property, sue and be sued, and in general to exercise normal corporate powers.

These registries are sponsored by 18 national medical, dental, and veterinary societies and have as their mission the assembling of selected cases of interest to military medicine and of establishing through the mechanism of follow-up of living patients the natural history of various diseases of military-medical importance.

These thermometers have now been sent to the United Kingdom for calibration at the National Physical Laboratory.

These provisions are designed to reflect the differences in wealth and population among the States, with the objective that a vocationally handicapped person have access to needed services regardless of whether he resides in a State with a low or high per capita income or a sparsely or thickly populated State.

These could be costly and have a serious effect both at home and abroad.

These destructive forces also have a seriously adverse effect upon the watersheds and their life-supporting waterflows, and upon the other renewable forest resources.

These specialists, I learned, have done a great deal of work to improve the size and health of the plants and the resulting flowers.

These engines have a cylinder diameter of 3-7/8 inches and a stroke length of 3 inches.

`` These recent steps do not offer the possibility of extension to the great number of senior engineers who have displayed technical competence.

These have to do with property rights, municipal official attitudes and a host of others.

These vehicles, with large sensitive areas, have collected data for long enough times to give reliable impact rates for the periods of exposure.

These dosages could have been increased by increasing the source strength which was small in this case.

These have been labeled Regions 1, 2, and 4, respectively, in Fig. 1.

These drugs have no effect on the iodide concentrating mechanism, but they inhibit organification.

These groups have varied widely from mere families, primitive, totemic groups, and small modern cults and sects, to the memberships of great denominations, and great, widely dispersed world religions.

These things have been disseminated by other means, but always in the wake of extensive publication of analytic results.

These children have been described as those who were trying to say something to adults who did not understand.

These have an upper-middle-class leadership and a middle-class membership, with rare exceptions, where working-class parents are active in local P.-T.A. matters.

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.