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  • The voice choked in her throat as Valenso caught up a jewel-hilted riding whip and brought it down across the child's frail body with a savage force that left a red weal across her naked shoulders.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • The voice choked in her throat as Valenso caught up a jewel-hilted riding whip and brought it down across the child's frail body with a savage force that left a red weal across her naked shoulders.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • They were drawing his soul into the body of a foul night-weird, and in a moment of lucidity, he begged her to plunge her jewel-hilted golden-guarded dagger into his heart, to send his soul to Asura before the wizards could draw it back to the tower on the mountain crag.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Over all they put the silken surcoat with the royal lion worked in gold upon the breast, and they girt him with a broad gold-buckled belt which supported a jewel-hilted broadsword in a cloth-of-gold scabbard.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • They were drawing his soul into the body of a foul night-weird, and in a moment of lucidity, he begged her to plunge her jewel-hilted golden-guarded dagger into his heart, to send his soul to Asura before the wizards could draw it back to the tower on the mountain crag.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • From a gold-scaled girdle hung a short, narrow, jewel-hilted sword in a sheath of ornamented leather.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • From a gold-scaled girdle hung a short, narrow, jewel-hilted sword in a sheath of ornamented leather.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Over all they put the silken surcoat with the royal lion worked in gold upon the breast, and they girt him with a broad gold-buckled belt which supported a jewel-hilted broadsword in a cloth-of-gold scabbard.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • The golden firelight glinted from the knives he had stowed about hima couple of straight-bladed dirks, three wavy-edged daggers, and one jewel-hilted long knife.

    The Dragons of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1994

  • In the same instant, Tarran raised up on his kneesnow his howling was for pain, his curses for helplessnessand let fly the jewel-hilted long knife and pierced the beast's tongue.

    The Dragons of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1994

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