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1. A chef's knife or cleaver is as sharp as a rapier, but it is not an instrument meant for killing.
2. The little word seemed to have turned a rapier point of his sensitiveness against this courteous and vigilant foe.
3. He drew his rapier, despite his gentleness, and laid the Israelite stone dead upon the cushions at Cunegonde's feet.
4. Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.

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rapier
 n.  a straight sword with a narrow blade and two edges
Classic Sentence:
1  He drew his rapier, despite his gentleness, and laid the Israelite stone dead upon the cushions at Cunegonde's feet.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Candide in an instant drew his rapier, and plunged it up to the hilt in the Jesuit's belly; but in pulling it out reeking hot, he burst into tears.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XV
3  A long cloak of crimson velvet fell in graceful folds from his shoulders, disclosing in front the splendid baldric, from which was suspended a gigantic rapier.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
4  The thought slid like a cold shining rapier into his tender flesh: confession.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  The little word seemed to have turned a rapier point of his sensitiveness against this courteous and vigilant foe.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  She held a line of tatting in her hands and she was driving the shining needle back and forth as furiously as though handling a rapier in a duel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
7  Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  A chef's knife or cleaver is as sharp as a rapier, but it is not an instrument meant for killing.