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  • The tavern, known as the Pommel, was scarcely better lit than the alley.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • The Pommel is a long way from the king's palace, and accidents are common in these back alleys.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • Pommel and cantle are connected by a low seat, a few yards of isthmus; and the three divisions, all strongly marked, bear buildings.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Apparently, brawls and outbreaks of fighting were commonplace in the Pommel as the night wore on.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • Conan had been in seedier dives than this, but he had to admit that even the filthy, ill-kept Pommel outshone this wretched-looking hellhole.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • It was reached to me; I tooke it and embraced it in mine arms, and with teares in my eyes kist the Pommel of it.

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • Knife a small wooden box containing bait for Beaver a Tobacco sack with a pipe and implements for making fire with sometimes a hatchet fastened to the Pommel of his saddle his personal dress is a flannel or cotton shirt (if he is fortunate enough to obtain one, if not Antelope skin answers the purpose of over and under shirt) a pair of leather breeches with

    Journal of a Trapper 1914

  • Pommel it was; to use so gentle a word for what to me was crash, bang, smash, battle, murder, earthquake and tornado.

    The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Pommel him he did; and, having drawn blood at his ears, he turned him over his knee as if he had been a schoolboy, and lathered his rump with a chair-leg.

    The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Pommel returned with the required linen and a broom handle.

    Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life 1883

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