broadswords

Horned helmets, broadswords, buxom blonde braids …

Think Progress » All the funding for anti-marriage equality campaign in the nation’s capital came from outside of D.C. 2010

History and folklore sit cheek by jowl and, in the untamed landscape, it's easy to picture the arrival of Vikings in longboats, clansmen clashing broadswords or even mermaids seducing foolish suitors to a watery death.

Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg 2011

I'm not even moaning about the complete stupidity of reducing complex opinions to "60 flaming broadswords out of 100", I'm saying that the human element in interpreting score-less reviews as numerical scores renders the entire enterprise highly questionable.

SFFMeta: The MetaCritic for SF/F/H Book Fans 2009

The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;

November 2008 2008

The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;

Finally, one of us in the White House... 2008

Back in the early 80s, it was enough to have somebody singing anything about broadswords.

Broadsword! Jethro Tull, Dungeons and Dragons, and the bits we missed... zornhau 2008

In their case, protection from broadswords wasn't as much of a concern as the effects of ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.

How Water Protected Our Molecules | Universe Today 2010

The Yorks had not dropped back for a breath and a rest, as so often happened in battle, but had broken from the fight to run as fast as they could to their own horse lines to get their horses, and the men who had been on foot, savagely pressing the Lancaster men-at-arms, were now mounted and riding down on them, maces swinging, broadswords out, lances pointed down at throat height.

The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

The subsequently bowdlerized and nobler EC comics, such as Aces High (World War I dogfights) and Valor (broadswords and armor), tanked, and the company gambled everything on its new humor comic book, called Mad.

The Matisse of Mad Magazine 2009

In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem.

Stop the Government Takeover of America's Armed Forces! 2009