1 She was in a silver sheath, the calyx of a lily, her piled hair like black glass; she had the fragility and costliness of a Viennese goblet; and her eyes were intense.
2 But we heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs.
3 At this moment, Heyward observed that the scout loosened his knife in its sheath, and lowered the muzzle of his rifle.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 4 He drew down the thin silk sheath, slowly, carefully, right down and over her feet.
5 A sheath-knife, still in its sheath.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 6 He had not time to get it from the sheath before I had the harpoon through him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER 7 Every one looked at Carlini; the sheath at his belt was empty.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 8 He was naked, with the exception of cloth drawers at the left side of which hung a large knife in a sheath, and he bore on his right shoulder a heavy iron sledge-hammer.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 35. La Mazzolata. 9 Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI—ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICT... 10 A few seconds afterward d'Artagnan also went out enveloped in a large cloak, which ill-concealed the sheath of a long sword.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 18 LOVER AND HUSBAND 11 He spoke, and snatching his sword like lightning from the sheath, strikes at the hawser with the drawn steel.
12 So speaks he weeping, and ungirds from his shoulder the sword inlaid with gold, fashioned with marvellous skill by Lycaon of Gnosus and fitly set in a sheath of ivory.
13 And at every step he feared that he had already died, that his soul had been wrenched forth of the sheath of his body, that he was plunging headlong through space.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 14 "Come, come," said Andrea, "sheathe your sword, my fine fellow; there is no occasion to make such a fuss, since I give myself up;" and he held out his hands to be manacled.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern. 15 Scarlett felt her courage and self-confidence ooze from her as she realized that the sword which had flashed between her and the world was sheathed forever.