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The evening before, I sabered a champagne bottle and had a mouth-watering meal at Bearfoot Bistro.
Margie Goldsmith: Grouse Grind And Other Adventures In B.C. Margie Goldsmith 2011
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Although the guns were reached and many artillerymen sabered, this charge was extremely foolhardy.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Although the guns were reached and many artillerymen sabered, this charge was extremely foolhardy.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Major Stienhouse, who was leading the squadron himself, sabered the commander of the battery, and the men following sabered all the remainder of the crew.
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Then the elephants again, and torches under the mysterious trees, with a sabered escort plunging to the right and left.
Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921
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I read with avidity of his great exploits, his hand-to-hand combats at Monterey, his refusal to surrender, and the escape of his entire command at Fort Donelson, when all could have marched away had they been as determined and fearless as he; of Shiloh, where he rode in among Sherman's infantry, who jabbed bayonets at him and his bold troopers and shot him through and through as he sabered them right
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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Stamping to call the crew aloft, Iberville sabered the men as they scrambled up the hatches, till the Governor himself threw {159} up hands in unconditional surrender.
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They dashed into the unbroken lines of the triumphant German infantry like a living hurricane, sabered the enemy, and put thousands on the run.
The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902
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It was a phrase that sabered the spider-webs of logical refinement, and held them up scornfully on the point.
The Big Bow Mystery Israel Zangwill 1895
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Several were sabered, and the Kremlin was relieved of their presence.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I Various 1885
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