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  • They came on horseback, three men armed with leaf-bladed spears bound to their wrists with long cords.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • They came on horseback, three men armed with leaf-bladed spears bound to their wrists with long cords.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • They came on horseback, three men armed with leaf-bladed spears bound to their wrists with long cords.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Drawing the two leaf-bladed swords from the scabbards at his back, Helikaon charged at the milling Thrakians.

    Lord of the Silver Bow Gemmell, David 2005

  • God knows what any of them made of me, holding a great leaf-bladed longsword in one ruined hand, with my bone-white skin covered in blood, my crimson eyes blazing with the ecstasy of unbridled vengeance as I called out an alien name.

    The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001

  • Focusing her gaze on the timbered wall, she scanned the weapons hanging there: the leaf-bladed broadsword, the bow of horn and the quiver of black-shafted arrows, the daggers and dirks and the helm, with its crown and cheek-guards of black iron and the nasal guard and brows of polished brass.

    Ironhand's Daughter Gemmell, David 1995

  • NIGHT ARRANT themselves to the long, slender swords, leaf-bladed daggers, and bucklers that the Poochaun guards had grudgingly supplied on Panloron's command.

    Night Arrant Gygax, Gary 1987

  • He picked out from the pile of grim weapons two knives, leaf-bladed, damasked in gold and red; and searching further he found also the sheaths, black, set with small red gems.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • With deft fingers then he quickly unrolled the bandage, letting the foul, badly stained cotton fall upon the sand at his feet, laying bare to the sunlight a terrible cut running up from just above the wrist to the elbow joint, evidently caused by the thrust of one of the leaf-bladed spears, and now from long neglect horribly inflamed, and threatening danger, while the suffering it must have caused had doubtless been extreme.

    In the Mahdi's Grasp George Manville Fenn 1870

  • For by a fortunate accident, the chief who seemed of the greater importance, turned sharply to his companion and handed to him the shield and two leaf-bladed spears he carried, and then threw himself from the beautiful Arab horse he rode, giving the bridle to one of his followers.

    In the Mahdi's Grasp George Manville Fenn 1870

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