Quotes About Scabbard

#1. brace covered his neck. Dark, fingerless gloves covered his hands to allow a better grip on his shotgun. An aluminum baseball bat was slung across his back, Samurai-style, in a crude scabbard next to a large backpack He

Keith C. Blackmore

#2. If the Danes come," he spoke to Wulfhere, "you must let me fight."
"You don't know how to fight."
"Then you must teach me." He slid Serpent-Breath back into the scabbard. "Wessex needs a king who can fight," he said, "instead of pray.

Bernard Cornwell

#3. And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?May you know it yet ten more.

John Crowe Ransom

#4. He slipped the baldric over his head, laying the leather across his shoulder and the scabbard at his hip. Knowing the weapon a little more intimately, now, he had a new respect for it.

Terry Goodkind

#5. I do not need a scabbard to sheathe my mind.

Fuyumi Ono

#6. I'll have peace on those terms," Lord Karstark said. "They can keep their red castle and their iron chair as well." He eased his longsword from its scabbard. "The King in the North!" he said, kneeling beside the Greatjon.

George R R Martin

#7. Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants.

Elizabeth Montagu

#8. Dirk without the scabbard. This, then, I concealed

Robert Louis Stevenson

#9. A single gleaming sword sat in the middle on a raised portion of the red velvet. Magda noticed an ornate gold and silver scabbard attached to a baldric lying on the floor. The scabbard was so striking that it could only belong with the sword.

Terry Goodkind

#10. It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

Mohsin Hamid

#11. Nothing made you look like more of a dick than standing there trying to find the end of your scabbard with the tip of your sword.

Lev Grossman

#12. The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon. And when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.

S.C. Gwynne

#13. Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#14. You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.

David Eddings

#15. They love truth flourishing, who do not love it when it is confuting. They dare handle and look on the sword with delight when in a rich scabbard, who would run away to see it drawn.

William Gurnall

#16. There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#17. How could I protect myself? I had the Viking's scabbard, but not the sword; I had the Buddhist's robe, but not the faith.

Andrew Davidson

#18. Molly stood over the stove, naked, except for a wide sash from which was slung the scabbard for her broadsword at the center of her back, giving the impression that she had won honors in the Miss Nude Random Violence Pageant. Her

Christopher Moore

#19. Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

Dumas Malone

#21. Europeans are dying out. Don't you understand that? And same-sex marriages don't produce children. Do you want to survive by drawing migrants? But society cannot adapt so many migrants.

Vladimir Putin

#22. You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

Adam Baldwin

#23. Killing a man should be more different than killing a game. It was not.

Veronica Rossi

#24. It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

George Washington

#25. Just your existence proves the existence of God.

Miguel Ruiz

#26. I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

Rhys Ifans

#27. I'm a trailer junkie. I love watching movie trailers as soon as they go up.

Jonathan Keltz

#28. Look to the Lord in every situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

Irwin Winkler