bearing sword

noun

1. a large sword carried for its owner by a squire or servant because of its size.

Example Sentences

In the fullness of time, when Kensington Palace decides to let the world know what kind of cancer it was, that information may accomplish for her specific cancer what the revelation of King Charles’ prostate treatment did: It sent hundreds of thousands of Britons to their doctors for checkups and saved perhaps thousands of British lives — as many as and maybe more than any king of England bearing sword and shield ever saved in battle.

From Los Angeles Times

Eucrates himself, out in the woods, heard a noise of barking dogs; an earthquake followed and a voice of thunder, and then came a woman more than six hundred feet high, bearing sword and torch, and followed by dogs "taller than Indian elephants, black in colour."

From Project Gutenberg

XXX With them of Brunhild's warriors advanc'd a chosen band, Better than five hundred, each bearing sword in hand, The very flower of Issland; 'twas a fair yet fearful scene.

From Project Gutenberg

Enter Ione in armor, bearing sword.

From Project Gutenberg

When saw ye thanes so many / come a truce to make With helmet firmly fastened / and bearing sword in hand?

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